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Archie
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All about Archie
Pet Tip
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:
- UKDogWalker
- City:
- Not Provided
- Province, Country:
- Not Provided
- Type/Breed:
- Border Collie
- Date of Birth:
- Jul 15, 2015
- Sex:
- Male
- Height:
- Not Provided
- Weight:
- 47
- Coat Colour:
- Black & White
- Eye Colour:
- Brown
Cheeky, playful and nosy. Hates being left alone but luckily he's with me all the time. Loves to chase other fast moving dogs and has to do the herding thing.
Archie was a rescue he joined us at age 7 months and we quickly discovered he was scared of footballs, kids and strange noises. He's over the football fear and tolerates kids more than before but still wants to run and hide when he hears strange noises.
