Luckily for me he listens. Stops when i saw stop. Comes when I say come. But other than that he's nose-down on a mission to find....what?! He stops and smells everything from ants to people. Tell me what your lookin for lil buddy! I'll help you find it!
2006-10-24 19:56:49 · 14 answers · asked by ytrip 2 in Pets ➔ Dogs
He's looking for interesting smells. Dogs sense of smell is literally 1,000 times stronger than ours. It's also very different. We can no more understand what a dog smells than a dog can understand what we're reading. Fortunately, this inability to understand the senses of the other doesn't get in the way of just appreciating the other.
2006-10-24 20:03:38 · answer #1 · answered by beast 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He is not necessarily looking to anything, just being "nosy". We have a great dog we got from a shelter that has a strong sniffing instinct and she smells everything! She will even stand out on our back porch with her nose in the air sniffing the wind. Beagles were bred for hunting and part of the hunting instinct is having nose to the ground tracking the prey. Your boy is just doing what comes natural.
2006-10-25 03:15:40 · answer #2 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I once worked for a beagle breeder, and asked him about getting a beagle for my kids. He STRONGLY discouraged me from doing that.
Beagles are created by God and humans to be nose-down, following some animal scent that they've just discovered. They are happiest when they're half-running with their nose 1" for the ground. That's her job, in the same way that my sheltie's job is to herd sheep.
You are a wise man for letting your pet do the sniffing. If you didn't let him do his "job" then you'd have one miserable, stressed-out dog, and nothing good would come from that.
2006-10-25 03:07:53 · answer #3 · answered by geek49203 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He's a hound dog!That's what scent-hounds were bred for-to sniff out game.He's just doing what comes naturally to him.I used to have a beagle(he wasn't a hunting dog)and to let him "track" something,I would tie a rope to one of his toys ( I let him smell it first),then drag it around the yard or the house and let him find it with his nose.He never failed.He would even find toys hidden in trees!And he would find my niece and nephew,too;they played hide and seek and Otis always found them.Once,I lost one of my box turtles.I looked everywhere,even digging up her enclosure,but I thought she had escaped.Then Otis came outside,and I put him in the turtle enclosure just to see what he would do,and what do you know,he ran right over to a corner of the pen and started digging,and soon ,there was that turtle,buried down about a foot.So that's why your dog sniffs everything.He just likes to use his nose.Make it a game for him to find things-it's fun for you and your dog!
2006-10-25 03:25:20 · answer #4 · answered by Dances With Woofs! 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
For beagles - like most dogs bred for hunting and tracking - this is simply normal behaviour. It is not that they are looking for any one thing in particular, but often rather their way of investigating/exploring their environment. You have to remember that for dogs, smell is one of the most important senses - in fact scientists are beginning to realise that smell may even be the most important sense even for human, greatly effecting the way in which we interact with our environment - even effecting how we are attracted to the opposite sex.
All I can say is that you're lucky he actually come back when you call him - beagles are renowned for completely ignoring their masters when in their "zone" - I know ours did!
2006-10-25 03:10:01 · answer #5 · answered by ♫kanis.lupus♫ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My beagle is the same! Sniffs the same tree every day, but when it comes to return home from our walks, she's dead straight, nose to the ground, knows right where to go.
2006-10-25 03:04:45 · answer #6 · answered by Mezza 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Dogs sense things through their sense of smell. For him, sniffing is like reading the newspaper to find out who's been doing what where.
2006-10-25 03:04:00 · answer #7 · answered by triviatm 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's a dog thing, but especially a beagle thing. They are simply smelling their environment, it is their primary sense.
2006-10-25 03:27:02 · answer #8 · answered by sweetpea77thst 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Thats what beagles do. In Australia, we have them at the airport, Ive been sniffed by one. Since you havnt asked him to look for SOMETHING hes looking for ANYTHING!
2006-10-25 03:05:36 · answer #9 · answered by kalikapsychosis 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hi he does this because he was bred to be a scent hound on the trail of foxes...the breed all do this as that is in their blood to follow scents & look for scents...Regards jake http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PetsSecondChance
2006-10-25 05:47:14 · answer #10 · answered by Jake 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋