“Stuck” dogs: a normal stage of mating
When a male dog straddles a female to cover her, the male often turns 180 degrees to end up head to toe with the female dog. The two animals then find themselves "glued" from behind.
In fact, this phenomenon is a completely normal stage of mating between two representatives of the canine species. When the dog introduces his penis into the bitch's vagina, there is then a reflex spasm of the vagina in the bitch which has the role of keeping the male's sex captive in the female's genital tract until the end of the litter. sexual act.This natural phenomenon aims to maximize the bitch's chances of successful fertilization by giving the dog time to deposit all of its semen in its partner's vagina.
During mating, this phenomenon is called knotting.
How to react when two dogs stick together?
When two dogs stick together, popular belief suggests throwing a bucket of water at them or trying to separate them at all costs. In reality, the first solution is useless and the second is very dangerous.
Attempting to separate two dogs that have stuck together can cause vaginal tearing or prolapse in the bitch and penile bone fracture in the male dog.
Thus, when two dogs stick together, nothing should be done at all and simply wait for the female's vaginal spasm to decrease so that the two partners can unhook naturally.Usually it takes 5-30 minutes for the dogs to separate.
On the other hand, if one of the two dogs starts to get angry and move around a lot, it is advisable to keep them together (if however both do not show any aggression, well obviously) until they come off naturally to avoid injury.
How to prevent two dogs from sticking together?
You can't avoid two dogs sticking together when they mate because the knotting step is part of the normal process of mating.
On the other hand, we can prevent dogs from mating by avoiding placing a female in heat in contact with an uncastrated male dog or by sterilizing her animal if you do not want it reproduce.