Why do dogs bury their bones? Mine buries hers in my couch.
Why do dogs scuffle their front and back feet after they “go”? Is that the ”I did it” dance?
Why is it when she has to go she spins like the cartoon character the tasmanian devil?
I keep my dog on a very short leash when walking her, if I didn’t I’d have no shoulder sockets left with the twists and turns she takes. While they tell you in dog obedience school that the ultimate is to loose leash your dog – I really can’t until the end of a walk when she’s a little less ADD.
There is currently a wonderful very long stretch of parkway that I let her loose leash along that is covered with a ton of autumn leaves, I admit that I adore shuffling my feet through it all.
This is when my dog is no longer a dog, but a truffle pig. She snorts her way from one end of the parkway to the other. I often wonder what she smells along the way. Her ” truffling” is hyper focused and very intense.
Too bad we couldn’t find some truffles along the way – aren’t they like $300 per ounce or something ridiculous like that? Not to mention truffles are positively delicious.
What’s a truffle pig? A pig whose nose leads him to truffles, a rare and expensive underground mushroom.
Or in my dog eat dog world….
It’s my dog who leads me to nowhere, but down the parkway…with her nose.
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OK, I totally love this! My dog is also a truffle pig. aka snorfler. My fave is pretending to BE the snorfling dog for my almost 2 year old boy. He knows immediately who I am when I am sniffing madly and moving him around with my snout.
Jess,
I originally wrote this post a year ago, we had her for only a yr then and I marveled at her as she sniffed ever so madly – seems to be more so this time a year? As if the shift of weather has her making up for lost sniffs or something.
She also does what we call catching sniffs – pauses outside, points her nose up and flares her nostrils – inhaling ever so deeply.
ahhhhhh la grange…
At dinner we blow at her and recite what we are eating that night – we wonder if she really can relate the smell to the sniff
They say that you can expand their vocabulary!
mmmm – chicken !!
I bet your son squeals with laughter as mom snorts like a truffle pig!!
Hi Karen,I have 2 dogs – the one loves to sniff the ground, especially grass/leaves, etc. However, when he finds a particularly good smell, he rolls in it. UGH. Why a dog would roll in something (usually smelly) is beyond me.Lori
I would think the rolling would be to somehow be one with the smell! Ha!
I love My Dog small very much