Doggone Dog...

Nov 26, 2009 23:57

Dogs are friendly critters as a rule; Being pack animals, they tend to settle in nicely with their human pack-mates once they know where they fit in on the scale. Young dogs, like young humans, tend to test the boundries to see what they can or cannot get away with. Overall, Nash is a good dog; Not too bright at times, but overall pretty good. ( Read more... )

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captpackrat November 27 2009, 06:32:33 UTC
I think it's not so much that their sense of smell is stronger, but rather that they can smell more detail, like the difference between an old B&W television and a new HDTV.

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equusmaximus November 27 2009, 07:38:31 UTC
Exactly! :)

So, the question still is, "Do their super-sniffers smell something wonderful in there, that we (with our under-developed sense of smell) simply perceive as a foul stench?"

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cuprohastes November 27 2009, 16:22:25 UTC
I think it's a matter of perspective.
We smell it and go "Yuck!" because dead stuff is really bad because it means disease or predators or some other hazard, and we were basically jumped up tree shrews with delusions of grandeur.
Whereas to a dog they smell the same thing but it's not wired in to make them go "RUN AWAY!" - it means there's a carcass there might still be food on, and because they're pack animals they want to roll in it or bring part back and come home so the rest of the pack can have a good long sniff and share the find.
Unfortunately you're the pack and poor Nash is like "But... I shared! [sadface]". I mean you taught him to share by giving him some of your food (OK, he doesn't know that the big bags of dog chow aren't specially for him. as far as he knows you have all the food and you give him some. You must like him!).

That's my amateur opinion at any rate.

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thrashbear November 27 2009, 16:12:44 UTC
I've wondered the same thing myself about animals sense of smell and taste. When a wolf pack takes down an elk, do they enjoy the flavor of raw carcass? Even more intriguing, do they like the taste of rotting carcass?

Domesticated dogs seem to have a thing for cat poop, too. And what's with rolling around in rotting flesh and other dog feces?

Here's what I think: Humans being animals, there are some people who enjoy certain smells and tastes that the majority would find offensive (skunks, poop, farts, B.O., bad breath, etc.). Animals are pretty much the same, I guess.

This makes a good segway (sp?) regarding your replies about my old carpet. I would think you had it worse because you were in proximity to livestock, and farm pets are a whole other level.

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captpackrat November 28 2009, 02:09:35 UTC
Our dogs seem to love sheep poop, especially when the sheep have been eating corn. They wander around the property, snouts to the ground, hoovering up sheep pellets they find in the grass. They almost look like sheep themselves.

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moonscream November 27 2009, 22:23:35 UTC
Cats will usually purposely bury their kills that are too large to eat in one session and eat it over the next several days, so they do like the 'aged' taste. IMO I think dogs just like anything edible! XD XD XD

The smell is what led us to my cat Fastus' body after my ex-roommate's dogs killed him when I was on that awful 'ranch'. They must have known I'd have killed *them* if they'd have returned to the house with it because they left it where it lay for several days.

--Zhora

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