help! other dogs want to ride my dog.
 

Ok, I took my parents' dog to the dog park. he is a male (neutered) around 2yrs of age, medium built (58lb).

Every male dog in the park wants to hump the poor thing. They would hump him continuously, while my dog run and growl back at them and jump to get out of the grip by other dog.

The puppy does express body language that is shy and timid. I dont know if it was just that day where all dogs are male. Our dog was fine before when there are other female dogs present. He actually was running around playing, boxing with some dogs.

My question is : How can we train our dog to be more dominating so that male dogs dont pick on him? Should I stop taking him to the park, the more he gets humping attempted, the more he becomes passive and scared???

Your thread title made it sound like random people would want to mount your dog and ride it around like a horse.

I changed the title a bit.. :)

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Are the other dogs neutered? Does this happen on and off leash? If the other owners are not stepping in and stopping their dogs, then it's up to you to block the other dog off. My dog isn't that big (21 lbs) and is usually pretty calm, but he doesn't like it when he someone gets mounted. His response is usually trying the mount the other dog but instead of humping the rear, he humps the dogs face. That usually stops the other dog pretty quick. If it doesn't, or if the other dog is really aggressive, then I just block the other dog with my body. This shows to your own dog that you are the master and will protect him when he needs to be.

As far as I know its just a dominance thing. The more you stick up for your dog the less he'll stick up for himself and the less dominant he'll be. So quit pulling him away from the humping dogs and quit pulling the humpers off of him and eventually he'll get pissed and defend himself.

at the off leash park, a few nicer owners will block their dog or punish their dog for humping others. I dont know if their dogs are neutered or not, all i know is humping can happen even if a dog has been neutered, its a dominant thing for dogs.

My dog growls , runs, twists, rolls on his body to get out of the death grip on his own. I am not stepping in because as Phil@rise said : your dog will become more pussy.

My only concern is that my dog was supposed to go to dog park to socialize and have fun/exercise, instead he is getting humped and has to run for his life the whole 40mins we go there.

Any other way to make my dog not get humped? ( make him stand tall or show confidnece)

Don't stress over it to much. It sounds like your doing the right thing and your dog is too. Sometimes it just comes down to the other dogs and their handlers.
My dog will fiercely defend himself if another attempts to mount him (it happens very rarely other dogs can sense his confidence)but I think he gets that from me. When he was younger if another dog tried to mount him I would yell at that dogs handler to control their dog. As long as he is greeted respectfully then all is good but so many dogs don't know how to introduce themselves and run rampant in off leash parks, its not the dogs fault its how they are raised.

The problem is is usually it has nothing to do with dominance. Just over excitement and poor social skills. The best thing for you to do is to keep ur dog calm. This will help keep the excitment level of the other dogs down. By your dog running away he will just up the excitement level. You can not control other dogs, but by getting your dog to sit next to you quietly will get the other dogs to leave your dog alone. it will change the excitement level and then the dogs can socialize properly.

I will try that next time, have him sit next to me. The weird thing is, My dog will always come back to the dog pack even though he knows they will pick on him. He will even go sniff near the humping dogs who were ask to lie down by their owner for their misbehavior.

Your dog was probably the smallest in its litter.

Size of puppy has nothing to do with it. I've seen the smallest in a large litter be the most confident dog in the group.

Here is a perfect example of what happened when my dog was constantly trying to hump the little dog. Watch the whole thing to get pwnage

I tried to sit and lay my dog down next to me this week. I did it for 5 mins at a time. Some dogs still come over and attempt to hump him while he was sitting down. The other dog owners have also tried to sit their dog down or pull them away.
In the end once we give them freedom, they come and hump my dog still. Usually 1 dog starts humping, then the rest of the pack wants a hump too. So my poor dog gets like 5 big dogs chasing him and wants to hump him.

The weird thing is my dog never learn to fight back strong enough to tell them off. Even when the other dogs were pulled away, my dog still goes to them and the whole thing starts again. It was painful to watch.

Do you think there is something in my dog's shampoo that attracts them?

The dogs shampoo is not the issue. Honestly if your dog is going back up to these same dogs he is part of the interaction. This type of socializing will not hurt the dog. If they are becoming aggressive then I would step in. Most of the time dogs are so happy and excited to see and socialize with other dogs they forget socialization skills and other dogs don't care. One thing to watch is how your dog is approaching the other dogs. It is sometimes the one we think is behaving that is the trigger for the behaviour..

That is a great example of play. Neither dog is over excited. That little dog is determined to let the pup know his place. Its fun to watch how little dogs can still get a big dog to the ground.

there is no problem playing with other dogs. My dog is very cautious when approaching other dogs, but soon he wants to play with them, usually in a two leg stand boxing type of play, and chasing around and biting /tripping each others hind foot. That is a guarantee when the playmates are female dogs. When it comes to male dogs, I would say about 20% would play and 80% just wants to hump my dog (they arent interested in other dogs ).

I am ok with humping, but dont know if my dog is enjoying his freedom or he hates it (running for his dear life away from humpers). Sometimes he comes running at me looking as if he wants to say, " save me, take me out of here"

Dominance. They're just testing. It's fine.
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I wouldn't worry about it. If your dog stops wanting to walk into the fenced area then I would start to intervene in the interactions. If your dog is running then they are not allowing normal social behaviour (sniffing each other). Another dog will (and usually it is more then one that will do this) chase the dog till they stop them and make them calm. Dogs don't ask for help. This happened to our dane puppy when he was at the park for the second time. He ran from a group of three dogs who just wanted to sniff him. They chased cornered him and then when he calmed they just sniffed him then walked off. after that he started to realize that when you meet a strange dog you do the polite thing and say hi (sniff each other). There were a few times after when he thought a dog looked scary and big that he would forget and run, but he was always reminded of park etiquette