Not To Be Sniffed At?

[MidnightCowboy]

This has bugged me for years, but this is the first time I've ever raised it.

A dog's nose has some 200 million + sensory receptors and is thousands of times more sensitive than the human equivalent. Why then, when you walk your pet and he encounters a pile of another dog's dunnit, does he stick his nose right in there and sniff like his life depended on it?

[Doobie]

Maybe Your nose isn't sensitive enough to pick up on the delightful and beautifully understated aromas of warm, fresh poop.

[vasa1]

An extension/add-on was yanked off the Mozilla site. It too had something to do with sniffing (more than it should).

[MidnightCowboy]

Originally Posted by Doobie

Maybe Your nose isn't sensitive enough to pick up on the delightful and beautifully understated aromas of warm, fresh poop.

Well I guess there must be some form of life history stored as an 'aroma code' by the way our "Snoopy" greets every pile he finds

It would indeed be an advantage if we humans, or at least me, could find these things more easily. Since our move we now have a much larger garden with part of the forest still in it. On hot days you can tell that there's something nasty giving off a smell somewhere, but my efforts to locate and remove it usually end up with me wearing the offending material on my shoes

[MidnightCowboy]

Originally Posted by vasa1

An extension/add-on was yanked off the Mozilla site. It too had something to do with sniffing (more than it should).

Saw this in your other post - thanks for sharing the information. Worth repeating the link for the benefit of those cruising here and not the other thread.

http://www.techsupportalert.com/free...s-add-ons.html

[26Dolphins]

Hi,
Maybe because dogs are scavengers by nature?
Consider yourself lucky if he sticks to only sniffing it.

[Awgeewhiz]

Why do dogs sniff?:

http://www.sarahsdogs.com/qa/why_do_dogs_sniff.html

[MidnightCowboy]

Good link, but it's the intensity of the sniffing that I'm querying. I can "identify" a pile of unmentionables from about 50 yards on a still day so why does Snoopy need to 'call' on a heap from less than than an inch like a reforming smoker taking a last drag?

[Awgeewhiz]

Seriously?

It may be to the dog like taking a drag on a joint or us when when
we get close to a woman and take in her scent. (Define your own
close to a woman and where.)

Hey, reguadless of the source, if it's pleasureable, both dogs and
humans will, uh, um, inhale. (Swallowing is optionable.)

[MidnightCowboy]

Great analogy!