2007-04-29 11:12:11 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pets ➔ Dogs
Believe it or not, I've heard they are saying hello to the dog that they are sniffing!!!! lol Seriously!!!
2007-04-29 11:33:47 · answer #1 · answered by ® 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They sniff each others' noses to get the first name, their butts to find out the last name.
2007-04-29 12:14:03 · answer #2 · answered by pugmo 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's friendly behavior, a dog's version of a handshake, and helps them identify the new dog in the future.
This question gets asked at least once a day ... I'm not sure why it's so popular!
2007-04-29 11:19:17 · answer #3 · answered by Bad Kitty! 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because the dog’s smell is the strongest here.
Dogs have poor vision, but an excellent sense of smell. With their nose they can tell who you are, if you are sick, what kind of disease you have, if you have had sex recently and a whole lot of other information. This is all concentrated in our body odors and that is why dogs smell each other’s rear ends and why they like to smell the crotch of a human.
2007-04-29 11:16:25 · answer #4 · answered by Dan S 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
We say hello. To dogs that is strange. It's the same thing. Dogs greet my sniffing butts. By sniffing, they can reconize what age, gender, what it ate last, and also, they can reconize them if they have met each other. Dont think it's strange. Think as there "religious greeting"
2007-04-29 11:18:04 · answer #5 · answered by Stephanie H 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I believe the dogs reproduction and anal glands carry alot of smell and personel information about the dog. Just like you can recognize your friends be their faces, dogs can recogbize other dogs be their scents.
2007-04-29 11:18:32 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
canines collect an excellent style of counsel approximately one yet another by way of heady scent. the main centred area to discover heady scent is around the anus and genitals. Its additionally an illustration of believe whilst a dogs enables yet another dogs to smell its rear. The rear end of the dogs is vulnerable simply by fact its the furthest faraway from the tooth....
2016-12-10 14:50:52 · answer #7 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I get the distinct impression that's how my dog determines whether she has ever met the smellee-dog before.
(Sniff, sniff...I don't know you...Let's go, Dad.).
2007-04-29 11:19:02 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's their source of 411 about each other, same as sniffing where another dog has urinated.
2007-04-29 11:14:51 · answer #9 · answered by beez 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
that's the way the dogs find out what sex the other dog is.
2007-04-29 11:15:18 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋