To put your mind at ease, the short answer is no, although you could be forgiven for making such a misreading based on some of your dog’s cruder habits.
If you’ve ever caught your dog leering at you in a way that made you feel like you needed a shower, you might have found yourself wondering whether it was thinking what you thought it was thinking.
Dogs may be like surrogate children to some, but they’re animals first and foremost. And like all animals, they’re driven by instinct—chief among them the instinct to reproduce.
Reasons You Might Suspect Your Dog Has the Hots for You
On more occasions than you can recall, your puppy has trotted right up to you and stuck its nose directly into your most intimate region without so much complimenting your outfit first.
You may notice that a certain part of your male dog’s anatomy is—ahem— at attention. This observation isn’t unduly troubling until you remember that there are no females around.