Humping on other dogs

What do you do if your dog humps on other dogs? Especially if they have been spayed/neutered?

Do you feel embarrassed if he/she does this on almost every dog he meets in a park? :)

Thankfully this is a problem that I have not encountered. She had been fixed and she shows no interest in other dogs in that way.

She was never interested in other dogs as far as that is concerned and she soon told them off if they paid too much attention to her.

Usually humping is not a sexual thing with dogs. It could be a dominance thing or a play action. It's almost never sexual.

I just remembered, when I was a child we had a female Jack Russell Terrier who would sometimes do it with a football. It is odd how these things always happen when you have company! I don't know why she did it, but it didn't happen very often.

From my knowledge it is a dominance thing. Some of my dogs have done from time to time, including my current two but as I think about it now, they haven't done it in a few years.

I think the point about it seeming to happen when you have company is significant. There is a little dog in our wider family that sometimes does it when she is excited because there are a lot of people around. She dashes around picking up her toys, getting people to play with her, then she molests one of the other dogs (who shows no interest) then she dashes around with her toys again.

It's usually an expression of excitement, or fun/play. You can try to "end" the game right away, act as if you're a tree (don't move or talk, step back a bit from the dog and cross your arms) or remove yourself from him entirely for some time.

Yes, a dominance thing. If you don't like it, go to your dog and correct him or her. A quick touch, or say no, and push him or her off the other dog. If he or she does it again, correct again.

Wouldn't it be better to remove the dog from the area?

A quick touch and "no" still lets allows the dog access, for lack of a better term, to those he wants to dominate.
Wouldn't the consequence carry more weight than a simple scolding?

I don't think its necessarily at dominance thing either. I think its mostly play and attention getting. Dogs don't dominate as much as we give them credit for.

The funniest thing that I have seen, happened about 20 years ago, when I was on a dog grooming course. One little dog a poodle, was being held on a lead and waiting to be clipped, when he started humping his lead. Now if he hadn't gone 'all the way' I would have said that it was anxiety that caused the behaviour, but he really did seem to be getting into the swing of things, and ended up by finishing it all off as well. He wasn't interested in the person holding the lead, just the lead.

I guess that was one way to take his mind off being clipped! I guess we will never understand exactly why they do some things.

After not doing it in ages, one of my dogs just started to do it again, but I told her 'no' and she stopped again. I do think it is just a part of the play. There really isn't too much of a dominance thing. Even when I try to adhere to the alpha dog thing, it usually doesn't mean much in this case.