Ask Lemmy
A Fediverse community for open-ended, thought provoking questions
Rules: (interactive)
1) Be nice and; have fun
Doxxing, trolling, sealioning, racism, and toxicity are not welcomed in AskLemmy. Remember what your mother said: if you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all. In addition, the site-wide Lemmy.world terms of service also apply here. Please familiarize yourself with them
2) All posts must end with a '?'
This is sort of like Jeopardy. Please phrase all post titles in the form of a proper question ending with ?
3) No spam
Please do not flood the community with nonsense. Actual suspected spammers will be banned on site. No astroturfing.
4) NSFW is okay, within reason
Just remember to tag posts with either a content warning or a [NSFW] tag. Overtly sexual posts are not allowed, please direct them to either [email protected] or [email protected].
NSFW comments should be restricted to posts tagged [NSFW].
5) This is not a support community.
It is not a place for 'how do I?', type questions.
If you have any questions regarding the site itself or would like to report a community, please direct them to Lemmy.world Support or email [email protected]. For other questions check our partnered communities list, or use the search function.
Reminder: The terms of service apply here too.
Partnered Communities:
Logo design credit goes to: tubbadu
view the rest of the comments
If at least one of them is fixed, at worst it's just a show of dominance. The bigger concern is for the dog humping. Those shows of dominance can lead to aggressive reactions from some dogs. If your dog isn't the type to react aggressively, it's not a big problem outside of any social awkwardness. The problem would be if that dog humped another that really didn't want it. Then there could be a fight. So it's in the owners best interest to discourage that behavior lest they hump the wrong dog.
All that said, even if your dog isn't the type to react and you just don't want another dog humping your dog, you should be fine taking some action. Either avoid the other dog or if that's not possible keep between your dog and the humper. Even physically holding the other dog away from yours should be fine. If the other owner takes offense to this, you can explain that you don't want their dog humping yours. At this point, they'll either concede and try to do better, remove their dog from the situation, or devolve into full Karen. Up to you how to handle that.
This is the most reasonable answer!
Here, take my shiny upvote:
Woah that looks expensive
Believe me, it was!