Why do dogs sniff each other's bottoms & what did Leonardo da Vinci say about this?

Question

This is a serious question. I'd like to know the real reason dogs do this and the actual connection with Leonardo da Vinci on this matter.

Answer 1

1330
Schemes for prophecies.
WHY DOGS TAKE PLEASURE IN SMELLING AT EACH OTHER.

This animal has a horror of the poor, because they eat poor food, and it loves the rich, because they have good living and especially meat. And the excrement of animals always retains some virtue of its origin as is shown by the faeces ...

Now dogs have so keen a smell, that they can discern by their nose the virtue remaining in these faeces, and if they find them in the streets, smell them and if they smell in them the virtue of meat or of other things, they take them, and if not, they leave them: And to return to the question, I say that if by means of this smell they know that dog to be well fed, they respect him, because they judge that he has a powerful and rich master; and if they discover no such smell with the virtue of meet, they judge that dog to be of small account and to have a poor and humble master, and therefore they bite that dog as they would his master.

Taken from The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci edited by Jean Paul Richter, 1880.

Answer 2

years ago all the dogs where at a meeting and the done thing in those times was to hang their r soles behind the door on entering.Well there was a fire started in the kitchen which set alight to the whole building.The dogs rushed out and just grabbed any r sole on the way out.And that is why they smell each others bums,they are looking for their own r sole.

I dont know if da vinci was there though.

Answer 3

it turns out there was a dogs ball. and they all had to unscrew their backsides hang them on a hook. midway into the ball a fire started, so every dog grabbed the closest one to them and thats why they sniff each other to find their own backside

Answer 4

why do dogs lick their balls???
because they can


.nuff said