Submissive.. Maybe?

[aussielover]

My dog just sits down and then tries to play with the other dog. Generally then the other dog will stop but if the didn't I would step in.

My dog is 7 months old and he has tried to hump a few dogs, maybe about 4 other dogs out of the many that he has met, I always tell him to stop and he stops when I tell him too. All the dogs he has tried to hump have been male as well.

This is a bit off topic but when he was younger, from 8 weeks, and occasionally now, he will scrunch up his bedding or blankets and hump that, does anyone know why that would be?

I would say its excitement or that it feels good.

My pup used to do this as well with her big fluffy duck and she is a female so it is not a sexual thing.

She stopped doing it at around 6 months though. She has never humped another dog.

OUr previous male dog didn't hump other dogs but he would also hump toys, even after he was desexed.