How to tell if your dog is gay

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You walk into the living room and catch your male dog mounting another male puppy. Your first thought: “Wait, can dogs be gay?” It’s a question more pet parents are asking—and it’s not as far-fetched as it sounds.

While it’s tempting to interpret our dogs’ behavior through a human lens, the noun is more scientific, instinctual, and (honestly) a little more entertaining than you might expect.

So before you cue up Lady Gaga and encourage your pup to “put your paws up,” it’s worth understanding what’s really going on.

It’s Not Just Your Dog: Same-Sex Behavior Is Common In The Animal Kingdom

Before you start Googling “puppy pride parade,” let’s take a step back. Scientists have documented same-sex sexual behavior (SSSB) in over 1, animal species, and in mammals, it’s far more common—and complex—than many people realize.

A study published in Nature Communications found that

Thread: How perform I test to see if my dog is gay?

  • ,  AM#1

    Banned

    How do I test to verb if my mutt is gay?

    So I got a dog and I like to take him on walks in the park to grab up chicks. When we get to the park though he is always jumping on other male dogs and humping them. Not that there is anything wrong with being gay but I don't wish to send out the wrong message here. I was hoping that all the girls would want to pet him and I could use the opportunity to build my move but this is getting embarrassing. Any tests out there to see if a dog is gay?

  • ,  AM#2

    Titan

    Does he hump male dogs in the park? If yes he is gay, if no he is straight

    Originally Posted by Connal

    I'd never compare him to Hitler, Hitler was actually adv educated, and by all accounts cute intelligent.

  • ,  AM#3

    Merely a Setback

    Male dogs "hump" each other to assert dominance

    You yearn to stop him from humping things in general? Neuter him.

    Can dogs be gay?

    It isn’t uncommon in nature or in pets to observe animals pair bond. But can dogs be gay? Most of the day the natural hormones involved create bonds between male and females with the need to hand over on their blood lines and generate at the forefront of their living instinct. However, we also see pair bonding’s’ in matching sex pairs as we do in human culture. 

    Do we see gay relationships forming in nature?

    Absolutely. Nature is entire of same sex pair bondings. 

    Reports of same sex relationships have been documented in Bears, Gorillas, flamingos, owls, salmon and many more. 

    It has been documented that a pair of penguins in Marwell zoo, Southampton “Ralph and Coral” created a equal sex relationship, raising several chicks together at their period in the zoo. Same sex relationships between penguins verb been noted before in other zoo’s as in Wingham wildlife park in Kent “Jumbs and Kermit”, London zoo “Ronnie and Reggie” and New Yorks’ central park zoo “Roy and Silo” all had achieving same sex relationships also raising chicks together. 

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    Doggy style at the Gay Pride Brussels

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    It is not the case that everything we see is about sex and gender roles. When it comes to what appears to be sexual behavior, it is adj that too much anthropomorphism combined with limited knowledge of dog behavior can lead to poor outcomes for family pets. According to a report by TV WCCB in Charlotte, North Carolina, the owners of a dog gave him up to a shelter because they thought that he was "gay." The dog, Fezco, is a mixed breed, about 4-to-5 years old, weighing around 50 pounds, and by all reports, he is friendly and sociable. The Stanly County Animal Shelter reported that the dog's owners surrendered him to the shelter claiming that he displayed his homosexuality by "humping" another male dog.

    The Behavior in Question

    Mounting behavior (colloquially referred to as "humping") is when a pup clasps the hips of another mutt and stands on two legs while thrusting his hips. Although this considerate of activity is part of normal sexual behavior in dogs, in the most common interactions among canines such b