The mating what?

At present I have all three bitches here in full season.......... and Ivan spending most of his time rolling his eyes or pretending to be very firmly asleep

Apart for some reason just after breakfast at about 5.30 am where for the last couple of mornings I've had to spend at least 20 minutes on my knees holding him and Hope up and the silly sod got carried away and they ended up tied..... thankfully he's too scared of Gretchen and Kammi to try it ... well that and they aren't having any of it!  That said, the three girls flirt like mad and hump each other .... I daren't have visitors till it's all over!

Now all of this canine hormonal overload has kind of coincided with me discovering there was a list of "Gay shifter books featuring the mating knot".... which of course I had to go read a couple of (yes even knowing how wolf shifter books wind me up)... and this has made me laugh quite a lot.... because seriously... so not sexy at all......

Well not if you've ever had to stand for 40 minutes in a muddy field in the pouring rain when the two labradors you were trying to mate finally tied........... or when you have to kneel for around an hour on a concrete patio with your hand bleeding from a bite - because the small dogs you were trying get to mate finally decided they'd tie... but the bitch wants to eat the dog at the same time...... or you have to hold up the adolescent Alaskan Malamute dog who got so overexcited at his first mating that he passed out when he tied and you have to stop him crushing the bitch......

Then there is the other side of it.... the dog that was too eager to mate and ended up injuring himself and bleeding all over the floor...... or the idiot dog that was humping his blanket and managed to retract part of it into the sheath and you've got to tease it back out...... or my favourite... where the over amorous male develops "fifth leg syndrome" and you ended up dipping him in a glass of cold water till his glans go down enough for him to retract before he dries out....

These things will happen with wolves too - okay not so much the blanket, and I am not following a randy wolf around with a glass of cold water....... but in the books the tie ... sorry "mating knot" seems to be this uber wonderfully sexy thing.... oh and it hits the prostate every time... which makes for me envisioning interesting positioning as the glans are on either side not all the way round...... of course there is the ultimate killer...... it's the bitch that actually completes the tie, not the dog, so erm, two males... yep, not sure how that works...