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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:
- Terry Baird-Wolf
- City:
- Winnipeg
- Province, Country:
- MB, Canada
- Type/Breed:
- Cat; domestic short hair
- Date of Birth:
- Not Provided
- Date of Death
- Oct. 20, 2005
- Sex:
- Female
- Height:
- Not Provided
- Weight:
- Not Provided
- Coat Colour:
- White with brown/grey patches
- Eye Colour:
- Green
Hurricane first came to me on Christmas eve in 2000, on one of the roughest streets in our city, at 11:30 at night, near a busy main thoroughfare, in the snow. I knew that if I left her there she would die, either killed by some lowlife, or hit by a car, or starving and feezing to death. I took her in, and that was all we needed to form a strong bond. She was my little girl; my Christmas present from God. "The Psycho Kitty" passed away from kidney failure, not quite six years later.
Nancy and I love you, Sweetie.
-Terry.
