Homosexual dogs
Have you ever noticed that your cat is way too affectionate towards her female friends than you think she should be? Or maybe you’ve seen your dog trying to mount another pup and suspect there might be another explanation to this behavior than just a playful mood.
As the explore on human gender and sexuality has seen tremendous progress over the last several decades, many people have opened their minds to the idea that their pets can be more queer than we’re used to thinking. However, the answer to the question “Can a pup be gay?” might be quite complicated.
What does study say about homosexuality in animals?
The topic of homosexuality was a taboo even not so long ago. Only around 20 years back, in , Bruce Bagemihl published his guide Biological Exuberance: Animal Homosexuality and Natural Diversity, which unveiled that over species of vertebrates engage in homosexual behavior, while some scientists were still contradictory the idea that homosexuality among animals is a common thing.
Today it is no longer a discovery that many animals occupy in different kinds of same-sex interactions: in some species only males, in others only females, and in many both complete. As Joan Roughgar
Can dogs be gay?
It isn’t uncommon in nature or in pets to spot animals pair bond. But can dogs be gay? Most of the day the natural hormones emotionally attached create bonds between male and females with the need to pass on their blood lines and reproduce at the forefront of their biological nature. However, we also view pair bonding’s’ in matching sex pairs as we do in human culture.
Do we see gay relationships forming in nature?
Absolutely. World is full of identical sex pair bondings.
Reports of same sex relationships hold 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 same sex relationship, raising several chicks together at their time in the zoo. Same sex relationships between penguins have 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’ pivotal park zoo “Roy and Silo” all had thriving same sex relationships also raising chicks together.
Japanese macaques have been noted to have a preference for other females even in the presence of males showing in
Fido Seeking Fido
A Tennessee male became convinced that his pit bull was same-sex attracted when he saw the animal “hunched over” another male. He immediately gave the dog to a shelter, where it came within hours of creature euthanized before being adopted. If a dog has gay sex, does that make him a male lover dog?
Not necessarily. Male dogs have homosexual sex under a variety of circumstances. They mount each other in dominance displays, and that mounting can involve anal penetration. (This is probably what happened in Tennessee if, in reality, there was even sex involved.) When exposed to a female in heat, groups of frustrated males sometimes engage in lgbtq+ sex. Neither of these behaviors suggests a eternal preference for members of the same sex. There are, however, male dogs that show a lifelong indifference to estrous females and never have heterosexual sex. It’s difficult to say whether this should be equated with the human concept of organism gay. No one knows what’s in the brain or heart of a dog.
The Tennessee pit bull owner, although widely derided, was participating in a longstanding tradition: Humans possess long associated dogs with gay sex. Classicist Robert Graves wrote about the Enarieae
Doggy style at the Queer Pride Brussels
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It is not the case that everything we spot is about sex and gender roles. When it comes to what appears to be sexual action, it is clear that too much anthropomorphism united with limited knowledge of dog behavior can advantage to bad 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 dog clasps the hips of another mutt and stands on two legs while thrusting his hips. Although this courteous of activity is part of normal sexual action in dogs, in the most common interactions among canines such behavior has nothing to do with sex, but a lot to do with social dominance.
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