Getting Over the HUMP?

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- 09/15/2010 at 6:48 AM
  jstukey
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  Hey guys,
  
  I have been recording my bonding journal here for anybody who wants to be updated on my whole story, BUT I wanted to pull this conversation out to focus on one thing specifically: Humping.
  
  I am bonding two girls and it is going well except that one of them (Riley) is obssessed with humping the other (Dexter). She will not stop, the whole bonding session except to get groomed by the one she is humping. I definitely feel this is a dominance thing, not a stress thing.
  
  My concern is that while they have not fought yet, I can tell that the girl being humped (Dexter) is starting to really get sick of it and I fear she will retaliate with a fight!
  
  I have tried a ‘humping double’ to distract her and it does work sometimes, but most of the time all she wants is Dexter.
  
  Please, any advice to help get my Riley ‘over the hump’ would be amazing. I KNOW that if I can get her to cool down they can be friends. This is really the only thing getting in the way of that. We are so close but so far!
  
  Help!
  
  Thanks in advance,
  
  Jackie
- 09/15/2010 at 7:24 AM
  Elrohwen
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  Not sure if it will work for you, but one thing that worked for me was to use stressing whenever Hannah got to humpy. She seemed to want to hump 15min into bonding sessions, so whenever she would get like that, I would scoop them up and put them in a laundry basket and shake them around. I usually only had to do it for 30 seconds or a minute, then I would set them down. It would knock her out of her humpiness and let them get on with the session.
  
  They still had to work through the chasing and dominance behavior on their own after moving in together, but it at least allowed bonding sessions to continue on in those early stages when Otto was more likely to turn around and bite her. By the time they were living together, he learned other ways of dealing with her when she got over excited (he now will actually turn around and present himself for grooming and she’ll do it! being groomed, even roughly, is better than being humped).
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