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Why is my pregnant dog humping me? What does this behavior mean?

Updated On September 23rd, 2025

Pet's info: Dog | Mixed Breed Small (up to 22lb) | Female | unspayed

My dog is pregnant but she is trying to hump me! What’s that mean?

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Answered By Claudia Fioravanti

Veterinarian

Published on December 7th, 2017

Quite often humping has not a sexual behaviour in dogs but a behavioural meaning, often secondary to conflittual emotions such as overexcitement. In your case, it is quite obvious that it is nothing related to sexual mating but rather something behavioural that it is often shown in the normal repertoire of dog’s behaviour.

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