Why do dogs do this?????

RE: Why do dogs do this????? (Monk)

Sun, 23 Apr 2006 06:10:57 GMT

It all about natural instinct. Dogs will roll in dead things to hide scents, roll in the grass to hide scents, kill small game for the sport or to actually eat, bury their kill, flount and show you their kill for pride, eat poop from almost any animal, roll in poop, eat dirt, sniff asses, sniff everything, etc, etc, etc. What is funny is that we are sickened by what a dog does from time to time, but no matter how sick and twisted and evil their masters act, dogs are still happy to see their masters whenever they return. What is the lesson?

Dog's are incapible of teaching good morals.

RE: Why do dogs do this????? (teststumper)

Sun, 23 Apr 2006 00:04:44 GMT

ORIGINAL: karenplaysdrums

Yuck! My neighbor's cat leaves dead mice on my front porch

He likes you and is giving you a gift....seriously!.....that's the explanation why they do this.

RE: Why do dogs do this????? (karenplaysdrums)

Sun, 23 Apr 2006 00:00:09 GMT

ORIGINAL: Kevin95

Thats nothing. My cat has killed mice, left their heads by my bed for me to wake next too in the morning, and I've found stashed headless bodies stinking up my room.

Yuck! My neighbor's cat leaves dead mice on my front porch (why is he showing off his kill to me??) I take the whole mat over to my neighbor's porch and dump them on their porch...they think it's just sooo funny

I'm surrounded by dead rodents

RE: Why do dogs do this????? (Kevin95)

Sat, 22 Apr 2006 13:59:54 GMT

Thats nothing. My cat has killed mice, left their heads by my bed for me to wake next too in the morning, and I've found stashed headless bodies stinking up my room.

RE: Why do dogs do this????? (mandrake)

Sat, 22 Apr 2006 13:25:19 GMT

I must say that your dog is tr00 !!

Gaahl would envy him

RE: Why do dogs do this????? (Telefragged)

Sat, 22 Apr 2006 13:02:30 GMT

Oh my goodness, your dog is gorgeous.

If you've got her stuff, then I guess there's not much you can do at this point. Just hope she doesn't get into the bad habit of chicken killing. Grace, my german shepherd, took it up for about a month and we didn't know. That is, until she came home limping. She's got a good size chunk of lead stuck inside her leg. The four vets we took her to all agree that it would cause a lot more harm to remove it than to just leave it there.

She stopped chicken killing though.

RE: Why do dogs do this????? (TakeTheTime)

Sat, 22 Apr 2006 12:50:22 GMT

Karen, try washing your dog with tomato juice. It makes a hella mess, but the acid in the tomatos juice will wash away the stank. I know it works for skunk stank!

RE: Why do dogs do this????? (karenplaysdrums)

Sat, 22 Apr 2006 11:19:23 GMT

Thanks! I'll tell her Godzilla said she is beautiful! A pressure washer!! LMAO!

She is a great dog, we got very lucky to aquire her. I work for Hospice and one of our patients who had no family or friends was very worried what would happen with his dog. So I met he and his dog and brought him pics of the house and yard to assure him she would have a great home. She and I hit it off immediately, and he said right there he wanted me to have her, sweet little 'ole guy. He died a few weeks later, and we adopted her. She was sad for about a day and has been with us ever since (almost 2 years now). I LOVE JENNY!!

RE: Why do dogs do this????? (Godzilla)

Sat, 22 Apr 2006 10:44:31 GMT

She is GORGEOUS!!! Throw out the Greenies, though, seriously. Too many dogs have died from them, they aren't digestable- even if she has snubbed them. She's uber smart then ;)

Does she have another pal to herd? That might curb some of her gopher fun, but it's more or less instinct on her part, so your best bet is to just get a pressure washer. It'll definitely assist in ridding of that annoying undercoat!

RE: Why do dogs do this????? (mitosis)

Sat, 22 Apr 2006 10:38:13 GMT

My girlfriend's dog a Jack Russel Terrier ( I believe this dogs are hunters) In Puerto Rico there are aaaa lot of this green iguanas. I think Puerto Rico is seeing the verge of a plague of this things. Well this dog when they cross over the fence he chases them and eats them leaving chunks of iguana all over the yard. But he dosen't roll over with the carcass.

RE: Why do dogs do this????? (starless)

Sat, 22 Apr 2006 10:36:25 GMT

your dog is probably bored. QH are cattle dogs, they like to work and get they bored fast. Left alone they'll get into trouble. All dogs roll around in dead carcasses. They're hunters. It blocks their scent from potential food. All this stuff is instinct.

RE: Why do dogs do this????? (karenplaysdrums)

Sat, 22 Apr 2006 10:31:28 GMT

ORIGINAL: Godzilla

Definitely get large rawhide chews, many of them, and praise your dog every time she chews it. Remember to not get the Greenie chews, as dogs have been kicking the hydrant due to them.

LOL, she has both, she snubbed the greenies, and buries the the rawhide, so those we keep inside and I do praise her, but I guess nothing beats killing a gopher and rolling around in it's guts!

Here is the best pic I could find of her (she's the one standing on the floor):

RE: Why do dogs do this????? (karenplaysdrums)

Sat, 22 Apr 2006 10:09:19 GMT

ORIGINAL: salty

OK this has got me wondering...

I live in Queensland. What the hell does a Queensland Terrier look like? And is it actually from Queensland?

She is a Queensland Heeler (not terrier) and you might know them as Australian Cattle Dogs:
http://www.australiancattledog.com/

She is the Black & White "Blue" breed

RE: Why do dogs do this????? (salty)

Sat, 22 Apr 2006 09:45:10 GMT

OK this has got me wondering...

I live in Queensland. What the hell does a Queensland Terrier look like? And is it actually from Queensland?

RE: Why do dogs do this????? (Godzilla)

Sat, 22 Apr 2006 09:44:22 GMT

Definitely get large rawhide chews, many of them, and praise your dog every time she chews it. Remember to not get the Greenie chews, as dogs have been kicking the hydrant due to them.

RE: Why do dogs do this????? (dtfanatic)

Sat, 22 Apr 2006 09:33:34 GMT

My dog does the same thing to lizards. I call her the Lizard Queen. Luckily those things are so small that there's no smell involved when she rolls over them.

RE: Why do dogs do this????? (karenplaysdrums)

Sat, 22 Apr 2006 09:31:44 GMT

ORIGINAL: TakeTheTime

with dogs, the correct answer is 'they can'

I think I just need to accept this and I am damned lucky she doesn't eat her own excrement and vomit

RE: Why do dogs do this????? (Bmac)

Sat, 22 Apr 2006 09:04:16 GMT

ORIGINAL: Cassie5563

My aunt's basset hounds do this, presumably to cover up the fact that they already smell like ass

ORIGINAL: HalenRush

My dog is a Jack Russel Terrier, and they are bred to dig up things like gophers and kill them.

You mean, Jack Russell Terrorist

THE SINGER FOR GREAT WHITE IS A TERRORIST?!?!?!?!?!

RE: Why do dogs do this????? (EyelessStorm)

Sat, 22 Apr 2006 08:49:11 GMT

ORIGINAL: StolenItalianIce

The answer to all dog problems is the shock collar.

Not just dogs, every living thing . Your pet python being a jerk, shock collar, and watch the fun begin with your newly pissed slithering freind.

RE: Why do dogs do this????? (TrialOfTears)

Sat, 22 Apr 2006 06:40:08 GMT

I posed all these questions to my two dogs, Nicky (Australian Shepherd Mix) and Vinny (Greman Shepherd Mix).......and they looked at me like I was the one who did fucked up things!!! Go figure.

RE: Why do dogs do this????? (Cassie5563)

Sat, 22 Apr 2006 06:32:32 GMT

My aunt's basset hounds do this, presumably to cover up the fact that they already smell like ass

ORIGINAL: HalenRush

My dog is a Jack Russel Terrier, and they are bred to dig up things like gophers and kill them.

You mean, Jack Russell Terrorist

RE: Why do dogs do this????? (spikelineus)

Sat, 22 Apr 2006 06:29:05 GMT

I thought your post was going to read: "Why do dogs sniff each other's arses."

RE: Why do dogs do this????? (DragonDaime)

Sat, 22 Apr 2006 01:46:04 GMT

ORIGINAL: Lee123

Ever seen dogs eat their own crap?

My dog thinks my cat's litter is a banquet...
::shudders::
>.<

RE: Why do dogs do this????? (DragonDaime)

Sat, 22 Apr 2006 01:44:58 GMT

I believe they rub in dead animals to hide their scent from predators....
it's a natural instinct.

RE: Why do dogs do this????? (Lee123)

Sat, 22 Apr 2006 01:44:55 GMT

Ever seen dogs eat their own crap?

RE: Why do dogs do this????? (ThXinc)

Sat, 22 Apr 2006 01:41:15 GMT

Maybe they're a fan of the movie " Caddyshack"?

RE: Why do dogs do this????? (TakeTheTime)

Sat, 22 Apr 2006 01:39:41 GMT

with dogs, the correct answer is 'they can'

RE: Why do dogs do this????? (Cecilia)

Sat, 22 Apr 2006 01:39:21 GMT

Dachshunds are known to hunt..as they're hounds.

Thankfully they live at home in NY and we have a cement backyard that isn't too big.

RE: Why do dogs do this????? (HalenRush)

Sat, 22 Apr 2006 01:31:23 GMT

My dog is a Jack Russel Terrier, and they are bred to dig up things like gophers and kill them. And my dog does it once in a while. Then I call him Gopher Slayer for a week or so.

RE: Why do dogs do this????? (StolenItalianIce)

Sat, 22 Apr 2006 01:05:39 GMT

The answer to all dog problems is the shock collar.

RE: Why do dogs do this????? (BigBrainBrad)

Sat, 22 Apr 2006 00:53:54 GMT

My moms dog used to roll around in cow crap. Not that it makes you feel any better, it was always funny to me to see him do it after she just washed him...LOL. He had his own personality thats for sure.

RE: Why do dogs do this????? (Telefragged)

Sat, 22 Apr 2006 00:47:48 GMT

I've got a two large dogs on 500 acres, so this is not uncommon to me. We always use to go outside to find "gifts" from the dogs. The dogs smelled horrible too. They would chase everything from gophers to skunks. The gophers weren't so bad once they started going after the skunks. Now that was bad!

I had no idea how to stop them from doing that, so I asked my friend who had dogs too. She told me to get them a raw hide bone and see what happens. So, I got them both those large raw hides, and it had stopped until the bone was gone.

Try that, and see what happens. If that doesn't help, then I'd suggest contacting a behavior specialist.

RE: Why do dogs do this????? (Jeff G)

Sat, 22 Apr 2006 00:32:24 GMT

Why do they eat their own vomit?

RE: Why do dogs do this????? (karenplaysdrums)

Sat, 22 Apr 2006 00:19:23 GMT

Hmm...come to think of it, I did stop giving her stuffed animals a few months ago, she tears those apart in seconds too...I guess the gophers are just stuffed toys to her.

Damn, I wish she would just stick to Nylabones

Oh and thanks for all the empathy guys, nice to know my dog is not the only weirdo dog on the forum

RE: Why do dogs do this????? (Chrsdxn)

Sat, 22 Apr 2006 00:05:25 GMT

My baby Chubby goes through stuffed animals (her "babies") like they're going out of style....I think she's too scared of other animals to actually kill anything but man can she tear the shit out of stuffed animals. She makes quick work of them too, sometimes completely destroying them in under a minute. She does love to play and "cuddle" with the stuffed animal "carcass" after she's "killed" it. She also leaves their "guts" all over the house, on the floor and the couches so maybe this is related to what your dog does.....who knows?

RE: Why do dogs do this????? (BlueRaja)

Sat, 22 Apr 2006 00:00:17 GMT

My chihuahuas eat spiders. They roll in dead prunes. Same thing?

RE: Why do dogs do this????? (JRundquist)

Fri, 21 Apr 2006 23:59:03 GMT

When Good Dogs Do Bad Things...........

RE: Why do dogs do this????? (DTinNM)

Fri, 21 Apr 2006 23:56:24 GMT

I think that they like to get the scent of their kills on them. Almost like a trophy.... so they can brag to other dogs.

RE: Why do dogs do this????? (xdrummer2000)

Fri, 21 Apr 2006 23:56:03 GMT

Because they're dogs. And dogs like to do weird things. Trust me. I have 2 little ones, and they're a handfull.

But if you're concerned about this, you may want to ask a professional trainer.