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Dakota & Jake
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All about Dakota & Jake
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:
- Vicki Munroe
- City:
- Amherst
- Province, Country:
- NS, Canada
- Type/Breed:
- Rottie Mix & Ritreiver Mix
- Date of Birth:
- Not sure...
- Sex:
- Unknown
- Height:
- Not Provided
- Weight:
- Not Provided
- Coat Colour:
- Not Provided
- Eye Colour:
- Not Provided
This is Jake and Dakota ... Dakota is a female and Jake is a male ... Both rescued from the local pound and a great joy to be around. We adopted Dakota after Jake's brother Java died due to complications from Epilepsy.
Dakota joins the ranks of my animal farm, which include Jake and three cats whose original names were Nikki, Zoro and Maggie ... however became, in my boyfriend's humorous mind, Porky, Piggy and Pissy ... long story, but the names have remained...
Tell me I don't do a lot of houswork with my hairy little clan!!!
Cheers!!
