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Dog is a Crotch Sniffer – Pet tip 245
Most dog owners are aware that dog noses are extremely sensitive. This is due to the quantity of olfactory or ‘smell’ receptors in a dog’s nose. Whereas humans have around five million olfactory receptors, dogs have two hundred and twenty million. This makes their noses exponentially more sensitive than a human’s. Most times a dog’s sensitive nose works to our benefit. All kinds of dogs are used as service dogs to help humans find missing people, sniff out explosives, drugs etc. They can smell people coming from quite a distance and alert us to their presence. There are some embarrassing occasions however, when a dog’s nose is just too sensitive from our human perspective. Most notably this occurs when dogs try to sniff humans in their private areas.
This behaviour is a common one in dogs and equally common is the fact that it upsets most dog owners. The reason some dogs sniff at a human’s private parts is the same reason they sniff the private parts of other dogs. We know that when they smell other dogs in this way they can tell the sex, rank (is the dog more dominant or submissive) age and other information about the dog.
- Owner:
- Jim & Roseanne hamilton
- City:
- Bramalea
- Province, Country:
- ON, Canada
- Type/Breed:
- St. Bernard
- Date of Birth:
- nov. 1992
- Date of Death
- aug 1999
- Sex:
- Female
- Height:
- 27
- Weight:
- 225
- Coat Colour:
- brown/white
- Eye Colour:
- brown
big and bold and very brash, throughout the house you'd hear her crash. No Shepherd, Lab or Border Collie, stood in the way of our dear Molly. She"d raid the garbage on a daily basis, then all innocent she'd turn and face us."How dare you think that I'd do that , must have been some crazy cat". Both men and dogs she'd terrorize, but her big brown eyes they told no lies. She loved us all right to the end, we're proud to say she was our friend. Rest well dear Molly on that distant shore.Goodnight sweetheart till we meet once more.
