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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:
- Coraleee and Peter Lloyd
- City:
- Oshawa
- Province, Country:
- ON, Canada
- Type/Breed:
- Rabbit loppy Eared
- Date of Birth:
- Not Provided
- Date of Death
- July 23 2006
- Sex:
- Male
- Height:
- Not Provided
- Weight:
- Not Provided
- Coat Colour:
- Black with grey hairs
- Eye Colour:
- amber brown
Love to Shadow friend through our hearts our soul and always. May your sister have found you and be grooming you! Bound by carrots and love galore you;ve touched our lives and so much more, we miss you but have our memories galore of you and your personality of wonders and more.
Thankyou for bringing our love closer and you are our first, always my son. Sending our love and nice timothy hay,
kisses and carrots for years and more,
Love "your people", Cloud says bark she misses you
Mom and daddy
