The phenomenon, they say, explains why dogs sometimes hesitate, look very worried and circle around bizarrely before finally just squatting down and doing their business..................Well that explains it.The phenomenon, they say, explains why dogs sometimes hesitate, look very worried and circle around bizarrely before finally just squatting down and doing their business..................Well that explains it.This is pure DS!
I was wondering if they also align along the north south magnetic axis when they roll in poop.
I am going to extrapolate this to my cat and turn the litter box 90 degrees. Maybe she’ll stop peeing out the front window.
I guess the north-south magnetic axis spins in my backyard. Or maybe my dogs have broken compasses. Or maybe they are just free spirits, who like to poop aligned with all four corners of the world.
Someone needs to pay me a lot of money to record their poop-position a few thousand times, and to see if there is any correlation to the wind, sun angle, or - since they are sheep dogs - the nearest sheep herd. I think about $50K a year should do it...
Having watched my dog poop at least twice a day for 7 years, I can tell you he has faced every point on the compass.
Is this kind of like “Stage Fright” for dogs?
An article from a couple days ago with 100+ comments if anyone is interested.
Dogs align themselves with Earth’s magnetic field when it comes time to poop
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3107660/posts?
After years of research and thousands of dollars in government grants, I have proved without a doubt that dogs poop faster when it is -15° outside.
This is a big leap in canine arctic research and should prove to be helpful in many areas of science.
Next study: Which direction do dog owners face when using the pooper scooper?
But what about the bears? We already know where, but the nation’s survival depends on us spending a billion dollars to find out in which direction.
My dog just went while looking east. Towards Mecca perhaps?
The proud scientists say the findings “open new horizons for biomagnetic research.”
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Translation: they see opportunities for even more grant money to allow them to continue living on the public’s dime.
I couldn’t groan at this all alone. OMGosh. What waste.
Wouldn’t it be funny if we discovered they were really facing their mutt butts to Mecca?
I poop in the same direction every day. Unless I use the other bathroom.
My beagle transacts his solid business at least twice per day.
70 dogs × 2 poops/day × 365 days/year × 2 years = 102, 200 poops
Yet they only include 1900 poops into their dataset. Then, they mysteriously exclude poops taken, when the earths magnetic field is not calm. Sounds like they were taking advice on data collection from climate scientists.
Politicians did the same thing during the civil war .....
Just goes to prove that dogs, who usually point their noses into the wind and while keeping their bottom ends downwind, have more common sense than a whole “team of European scientists”, lol. But then they’ve probably never trailed a rabbit or even pooped in the woods.
If a dog poops in the woods, and no one is around, does it still smell?
