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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:
- Tammy Collinson
- City:
- Surrey
- Province, Country:
- BC, Canada
- Type/Breed:
- calico cat
- Date of Birth:
- march 1990
- Date of Death
- october 22 2005
- Sex:
- Female
- Height:
- Not Provided
- Weight:
- 5
- Coat Colour:
- orange & black
- Eye Colour:
- green
Tiggy was a perfect cat. She lived a long life and a very happy life. she was very tolerable living with 3 chihuahuas, but she put up with them. She was diagnosed with bone cancer at the age of 16. There was nothing our family could do for her. She loved cat nip. Every Christmas morning she would get her stocking and go straight for the mouse cat nip toy. I loved her so much. her nickname was mameer. She always knew when i was upset and would always be there to comfort me when i was crying. I love you tiggy and i miss you with all of my heart.
