A widespread question about canine behavior is this: Why do dogs insist on rolling on wretched, repulsive, nauseating things? When I hear it, I always think of Trucker and his nonchalant ways of dropping to do the “smelly roll,” often when I least expect it. We used to live in a subdivision nestled along a […]
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A Border Collie named Hunter located three girls barely breathing under four feet of rubble after Haiti’s 2010 earthquake. The previous year, Kura the Golden Retriever found a child lost in the woods of upstate New York. Heroic? Just another day of fun and games for these two typical canine graduates of the Ojai, California-based
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When we ask, “Why do dogs lick people?” we must remember that they are practically licked into life. One of the first sensations that puppies feel, upon entering this strange world of ours, is the nurturing tongue of the mother who whelped them. Mom uses her tongue to clear away baby’s nostrils, encouraging each puppy
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