Bea

That's really good that she's back to her normal self! I find with Mickey that he always pulls the "sulking and sad" trick with me whenever i put him in his harness. I ignore him and he gets over it, lol.

I would just stand up and move away or just push him off. My dog Mickey humped like a maniac as a puppy (not necessarily us, toys, feather duster, pillows, etc) and we thought that he would stop or at least not be as bad once he was desexed....somehow it didn't change a thing. Hardly a day passes where he doesn't hump something such as a foot if dad is being stupid and lets him - despite me telling him to not allow it - but most commonly his humping blanket...yes, he has a blanket just for humping and if we take that away he humps the rest of his bedding so we figuire best to let him continue with a blanket for only that purpose instead of having him hump whatever he can get his paws on. Not sure if this is common or if it's just my dog but that's a warning that it might not stop after desexing, lol.

My mums dog got kennel cough recently too much to our suprise as we thought "but she's vaccinated, how can she get it?". The vet told us that the vaccine covers 2 out of 8 strands of kennel cough or something. Something that they never tell you when you take you're dog for their vaccines, lol. But i believe it covers the worse 2, kinda like getting the flu vaccine in humans.

Really? Perhaps i should teach Mickey to bark on command then!