Unending happiness for your male dog

Authored by Prasenjit Dutta, From his own experience

• Retired Civil Engineer
• Former Secretary and Founder of Pashupati Animal Welfare Society-PAWS at Barasat, Kolkata www.pawsrescue.in
• Proprietor of RKD Pet Shop that supplies pet-use products nationwide.

You have a male dog at home of any breed and spend a restless time during mating season? This video and narrative tells a story that your doctor or breeder will not tell you.

Here’s the solution. Male dogs will howl and whine during mating season. They get female smells from up to 2 km distance from all around your house. Life becomes unbearable for the dog and the human members of the family. The dog becomes aggressive also for not being able to reach a mate. Give him a female mate who is sterilized. Do not mate him as per your vet’s advice. If you do, breeders will queue up outside your house to buy puppies cheaply from you and sell to low income people who want a foreign breed dog for Rs. 5,000! What will they feed those puppies? Nothing more than table waste. You alone will be primarily responsible for the poor fate of those puppies. Do you want that guilt on your conscience?

Remember one thing please. Among mammals, only humans and dolphins feel any enjoyment from sexual act. For all others, its an instinctive action driven by pheromone smells. If there is no smell, they don’t feel any urge. So let’s work on that and make your male dog happy without causing birth of more puppies to feed or sell and make their lives miserable.

Look at Bhulo and Chhyagah. Bhulo tries to show interest by getting close to Chhyagah and sniff her backside. Chhyagah is sterilized and will simply not tolerate any nonsense. She growls and snarls. Bhulo backs off. Chhyagah of course considers it her birthright to sniff Bhulo any time she wishes.

Ever since Bhulo got Chhyagah as a mate, he became a faithful husband. He doesn’t go for any female dog outside the house during his walks. Dogs confined in a house or living within a strongly bonded pack are normally monogamous. Quite like humans, they remain faithful and terrified of that single female partner. And they remain monogamous like most men when the wife is not watching 😂.

We used to have a very troubled time up to first 2 yrs of Bhulo’s life with us when there was no Chhyagah. He used to howl for being taken out at very odd hours and would spend an hour tugging at the leash to sniff out all female smells. If he sighted a female, a tug-o-war started and it was tough bringing him back homeward.

When Chhyagah was adopted at 8 months of age after sterilizing her, Bhulo became very calm and has been waiting for his turn each season when Chhyagah would give him the signal. But he didn’t realize that the wait will be unending.