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 research on human gender and sexuality has seen tremendous progress over the last several decades, many people possess 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 dog be gay?” might be quite complicated.
What does study say about homosexuality in animals?
The topic of homosexuality was a taboo even not so extended ago. Only around 20 years back, in , Bruce Bagemihl published his book Biological Exuberance: Animal Homosexuality and Natural Diversity, which unveiled that over species of vertebrates engage in lesbian behavior, while some scientists were still opposing the idea that homosexuality among animals is a common thing.
Today it is no longer a revelation that many animals engage in different kinds of same-sex int
Can dogs be gay?
It isn’t uncommon in nature or in pets to notice animals pair bond. But can dogs be gay? Most of the second the natural hormones committed create bonds between male and females with the need to pass on their blood lines and reproduce at the forefront of their biological intuition. However, we also notice pair bonding’s’ in equal sex pairs as we do in human culture.
Do we see gay relationships forming in nature?
Absolutely. Innateness is full of alike 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’ core park zoo “Roy and Silo” all had victorious same sex relationships also raising chicks together.
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Fido Seeking Fido
A Tennessee man became convinced that his pit bull was queer when he saw the animal “hunched over” another male. He immediately gave the dog to a shelter, where it came within hours of existence euthanized before organism adopted. If a dog has queer sex, does that make him a gay dog?
Not necessarily. Male dogs own 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 fact, there was even sex involved.) When exposed to a female in heat, groups of frustrated males sometimes engage in gay sex. Neither of these behaviors suggests a permanent taste 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 existence gay. No one knows what’s in the mind or heart of a dog.
The Tennessee pit bull owner, although widely derided, was participating in a longstanding traditi
Doggy style at the Queer Pride Brussels
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It is not the case that everything we look is about sex and gender roles. When it comes to what appears to be sexual deed, it is clear that too much anthropomorphism together with limited knowledge of dog behavior can steer 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 pup and stands on two legs while thrusting his hips. Although this compassionate of activity is part of normal sexual deed in dogs, in the most common interactions among canines such b