Posted on 09/01/2007 9:20:11 AM PDT by SamAdams76
Whenever I am walking my dog and we see a dead snake on the roadway, my dog likes to rub its body on top. It will flop down and roll over and over on top of the flattened dead snake.
Why does my dog do that? Is it some primordial urge that cannot be explained?
His behavior is similar to “The witch is dead” ditty. he simply can’t sing and dance. It’s a dog thing!!
My dog will try to rub himself on any dead animal he finds. When I lived by the Potomac, I use to let him run free in the woods, and he’d sometimes come back reeking of dead fish (dropped by an eagle or an osprey). I think it’s a natural hunting instinct to mask their smell.
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Dog behavior. Savage says his dog does that sometimes with food rather than eat it. Will we ever know why? Will our dogs ever know why we do things?
Our portuguese water dogs like to roll in deer sh*t. Talk about making scents.
He’s trying to get into Leona Helmsley’s will.
My dog hates using a stall...
I have always wanted a Portuguese Water Dog! What held me back was my inability to find Portuguese deer sh*t, or any other of Emeril's recipes, here in Appalachia. Especially on a Labor Day Weekend.
BTW, are all Portuguese Water Dogs gay, or is it just the hair-do?
Your dog is trying to tell you that he wants/needs a bath. Apparently your sense of smell is faulty or you would already know this but the dog is trying to get his point across.
“Bathe me human, bathe me now!”
I think it’s advertising, like:
This creature is dead. I may have killed it. Want to take a chance? I might kill you, too....I am an alpha dog.
Are you implying that the dog is suffering from a reptile dysfunction?
So how often should one buy new socks? Are their seasonal rules for soxs? A “No black socks before Labor day” sort of thing?
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It is an instinctual thing that goes back to before dogs descended from wolves. Wolves hunt in a pack and when hunting they need to disguise their scent or deer or elk or whatever they are hunting will smell them long before the wolves can get close enough to attack.
That is why dogs roll in dead animals or feces or any other foul smelling thing on the ground. If you dog could talk he would probably say that he has no idea why he does it, it’s just something a dog has got to do. (It’s the wolf in him)
Other Answers:
It’s like doggy perfume!
Maybe it takes after other dogs. You know the old saying: "Doggy see, Doggy do".
Everyone needs a hobby......?
LOL I have two poodles who will “drop and roll” on anything that’s rotting or decaying. That smell is hard to get off of them also.
I walked into that one!
Maybe he found the snake, charming?
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