Male adult dog won’t stop humping my puppy while female is in heat. ?

Question

I have 3 german shepherds. Female, 1 y/o and male who is also 1 y/o. They had 1 litter together and we kept one of the male pups who is now 4 months old. Female went in heat, we kept them separate and suddenly he developed this infatuation with the puppy (his son). We spoke to the vet and they insisted it was a dominance thing, so we left it be for a few days. But it is getting to the point where he can’t even be around him. He is hurting him by holding him down and standing on him. The puppy submits, whines and tries to get away. There is nothing that distracts him from the puppy, we’ve tried treats and everything. When we take him away from the puppy he is very obedient and his manners return. He has not tried to mount the female since he first started on the puppy. He constantly smells the puppy’s butt and tries to lick it and it takes all my body strength to pull him away from the puppy. The puppy will be neutered when he is 6 months old and I prefer not getting my adults spayed/neutered but if it comes down to that I will. My male dog is very obedient (prior to this situation) and is such a sweet dog to people and kids. But I need help, any advice is appreciated. Thank you so much

Answer 1

Your male (IF this OBSESSED) to the point of IGNORING a real female IN HEAT, he may scent blood in the male pup's urine (IF HE HAS A UTI). I have seen intact males become VERY "excited" and want to TO "BREED" a FIXED MALE or FIXED FEMALE..... who has a UTI, like this.



Take the male puppy or a freshly collected sample of his urine to your vet's office for them to test. I would fix BOTH males, as they are both likely to get into fights; if she remains intact.  For now, house them as far apart as possible and use crating or tight leashing to prevent any more "mounting".  If the puppy has no UTI; then you need to re-home..... somebody.

Answer 2

Spay and neuter your ill bred mutts. 

Answer 3

IMO all of them need to be spayed/neutered.  The adults were too young to be breeding at a year old.  Unneutered males will get aggressive and dominate towards each other if a female is in heat and that is what your dogs are doing.  He could end up hurting this male puppy.



Second, the male GSD dogs should not be neutered till a year old.  Get your adult done before the male puppy.  Get your female spayed a month after she is done with her cycle.  Then you will have more peace in your household when ALL of them are spayed/neutered.

Answer 4

You are an irresponsible BYB mating 1yr olds which are far too young......get all your dogs nuetered

Answer 5

You mated a b itch at a year old???  And actually at less than that age if the puppy you kept is now 4 months.    Puppies shouldn't ever be producing puppies.



What's going on, if the female went into heat again, has nothing to do with dominance (what vet would have said that IF he knew your b itch was in season again?) but everything to do with the fact he's living around a b itch in season.   Ye Gods.    Poor boy and even more, poor puppy - at the moment your older dog has no idea WHAT the puppy is, he's just a 'port in a storm'.   And could well be injured unless you get real and SEPARATE THEM.



If this is going on you need to remove him from 1. his son and 2. the b itch (or she'll be pregnant again!



Get HER spayed, when she's mid-way between seasons, and not the puppy castrated until he's at least over a year old, to allow the growth plates to close.   In fact if you get her spayed, there's no need to get either male castrated unless for medical need.



ps   Looking at that photo, there is more than one glaring breed fault that should have prevented any breeding from him/her.   Only top quality animals should ever be bred from.

Answer 6

You are completely irresponsible breeding from two 12 month old GSD`s who are still little more than pups themselves. 

Obviously neither have had any health checks and the two dogs are still developing and should not be bred from until the female is at least 2 years old and even then, only if she has had all A1 health checks and has a good temperament. A male should be at least 30 months old with A1 health checks and have at least some work or show credits to his name. Whatever were you  thinking.

Now this inexperienced male smells a female on heat and wants to mate desperately with her and is suffering agonies if he is kept from her.

The male need to be separated from the female so far away that he cannot smell her and instinctively feel the need to mate and will try and do so with any other dog that is available. 

Personally I think people like you with no experience of dog behaviour and certainly about dog breeding should not keep intact male and female dogs together.

If you say the female is now in heat again, why are you allowing the males near her?

The pup will have her smell on him.

I really don`t understand the whole situation, which needs to be elaborated on in more detail to be able to get the proper picture.

IF you are keeping intact males and females together and the dogs are just pets then you NEED to at least get the female spayed. 

Answer 7

maybe you should give your dog away

Answer 8

maybe you should give him away to someone so theyre seperated

Answer 9

Keep them apart then