Dr Chris Brown reveals the very surprising reason why dogs hump things - and it is not sexual

Dr Chris Brown has revealed nan astonishing logic why dogs often hump objects astir nan house.

The personage vet, 45, shared a video to Instagram connected Thursday, explaining nan astir communal logic for a canine to commencement humping is to get their owner's attention.

'This mightiness conscionable beryllium nan astir misunderstood of each canine behaviours because it's almost ne'er a power point aliases sexual,' he explained.

'It is ever difficult to disregard and that is conscionable nan point.'

'Because erstwhile you're astatine location and nan TV has your parents attention, this is nan 1 guaranteed measurement to get it backmost and it useful each time,' he added.

Sydney canine trainer Jac Tarrant besides antecedently said dogs don't hump because they want to person sex, but because they are complete excited.

She told followers of her canine training business, The Dog Nose, that humping was 'a behaviour dogs show erstwhile they are encephalon farting and don't cognize really other to get their hyper excitement out'.

'It's benignant of for illustration erstwhile a kid becomes complete stimulated and they spell perfectly feral,' she said.

The trainer shared a video of her ain dog, Primrose, mounting her foster relative PJ while nan brace were playing.

She pointed retired her canine was a female, and said this further proved nan action had nary intersexual connotations.

'Prim is simply a girl, but humping is not usually a intersexual behaviour,' she said. 'As mentioned above, it is much often than not, a motion that your canine is complete excited and doesn't cognize really to woody pinch this emotion.'

Jac said she utilized treats and distraction techniques to abstracted nan 2 and explained dogs should ne'er beryllium punished for humping, arsenic it would only reenforce nan behaviour.

To thief forestall further humping episodes, Jac recommended looking astatine what could beryllium causing nan canine stress, and school nan canine calm behaviours - first successful quiet environments and past successful situations wherever nan animal would ordinarily go much excited.