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...for Bertie to say 'goodbye' to his man bits 
Over the last 6 months he's been a bit on the humpy side and has tried to hump some dogs... mainly boy ones and their heads rather than the other end
Also the other day in the local park a lady came in with a 7 month old Cavapoo, funnily enough also called Bertie. Bertie has never shown any aggression to small dogs in fact he prefers to play with smaller dogs than big ones. However, on this occasion and for no reason that I could see after he had sniffed the pup and the pup went to run off Bertie stood over him and wouldn't let the pup up. When the pup did get up and run Bertie would chase after him and then stand over him again. He has never done this before and I was horrified! I went over and tried to call him off but he was having none of it and then started to growl whilst standing over the pup - not sure if it was directed at the pup or me for calling him off - either way in my eyes not good?! He was wearing his harness so I clipped the lead on him and got him off the pup. I was apologising to the owner explaining that he had never done anything like that before and I kept him on his lead for the rest of the walk.
Today, I took Bertie to the same park for his walk and the Cavapoo came in and Bertie did the same thing again, yet we had been walking round with 3 other dogs before hand and Bertie hadn't battered an eye at them. I didn't know whether to let them get on with it and maybe they would sort it out but I know how horrible it is when your dog is the one being stood over as it happened to Bertie a few times when he was very young. I tried to call Bertie off but again he wasn't listening to me so I had to put his lead on and then we left the park as I was horrified again.
Bertie is now 2 years old and I think has 'grown' into his man bits as he's always been a very wimpy dog but recently I think he's found his manliness - if that's at all possible? I'm wondering if I should get a behaviourist in before having his bits off? I would hate to have his bits off and then he became more wimpy. I'm also wonderind if having his bits off will end the behaviour I've seen lately?
Anyone else had any issues like this?
Over the last 6 months he's been a bit on the humpy side and has tried to hump some dogs... mainly boy ones and their heads rather than the other end
Also the other day in the local park a lady came in with a 7 month old Cavapoo, funnily enough also called Bertie. Bertie has never shown any aggression to small dogs in fact he prefers to play with smaller dogs than big ones. However, on this occasion and for no reason that I could see after he had sniffed the pup and the pup went to run off Bertie stood over him and wouldn't let the pup up. When the pup did get up and run Bertie would chase after him and then stand over him again. He has never done this before and I was horrified! I went over and tried to call him off but he was having none of it and then started to growl whilst standing over the pup - not sure if it was directed at the pup or me for calling him off - either way in my eyes not good?! He was wearing his harness so I clipped the lead on him and got him off the pup. I was apologising to the owner explaining that he had never done anything like that before and I kept him on his lead for the rest of the walk.
Today, I took Bertie to the same park for his walk and the Cavapoo came in and Bertie did the same thing again, yet we had been walking round with 3 other dogs before hand and Bertie hadn't battered an eye at them. I didn't know whether to let them get on with it and maybe they would sort it out but I know how horrible it is when your dog is the one being stood over as it happened to Bertie a few times when he was very young. I tried to call Bertie off but again he wasn't listening to me so I had to put his lead on and then we left the park as I was horrified again.
Bertie is now 2 years old and I think has 'grown' into his man bits as he's always been a very wimpy dog but recently I think he's found his manliness - if that's at all possible? I'm wondering if I should get a behaviourist in before having his bits off? I would hate to have his bits off and then he became more wimpy. I'm also wonderind if having his bits off will end the behaviour I've seen lately?
Anyone else had any issues like this?
