Why does my Dog

[sffreeways]

roll in Goose crap ? She doesn't like to walk in grass because she might step in some other dogs shit but if she spots goose shit she takes a dive and rolls with glee. It's disgusting !! Now she stinks to high heaven.

She's a chocolate lab and she's 12 years old. All white in the face and old old old. She can hardly get up enough energy to trot but she never misses the chance to take a good roll in the foulest thing she can find. Out of nowhere she gets an amazing amount of super pooh strength when she gets a whiff of something rancid like goose crap. She's clever too she knows I hate it when she does it and will pull her away before she can roll her face in it so she is very casual then all of a sudden she darts away and flops herself down and the legs go into the air and she is the happiest dog in the world.

Why do dogs do this ?? Does your dog do this ?

[donco6]

1. No way.

Though my dog used to eat deer poop.

Maybe that's worse?

[sffreeways]

5. She eats

cat crap. She'll come to me with it all over her teeth and breath in my face. I never heard of them eating deer pooh but I guess they have as varied a palet as we do. :eyes:

[MuseRider]

2. We have one that does that too!

I have no clue why but she reeks. She won't do it with any other kind of poop but when she goes swimming out on the farm she hunts for the stuff and covers herself.

I used to have a dog who would occasionally get away from me and venture over to the close Taco Tico and get in their trash and come home with maggots all over him. That was worse but not by much.

[sffreeways]

6. Ack !

oh maggots oh oh I would barf !

Funny they are so proud of themselves when they do these things too. She was wagging her tail like a puppy.

[MuseRider]

8. He got used to lots of

baths! Yes, my little stinker is sitting right next to me at the moment. They went swimming today, she is only mildly stinky and I don't feel it in her coat. They do think they are pretty cool when they add another aroma to themselves. :shrug:

[Ready4Change]

3. Predator action.

An effective predator smells like it's environment. That way prey has a harder time detecting the predator.

[Dookus]

7. exactly

they love to stink themselves up so they can hunt more effectively.

It's odd because dogs no longer hunt, but cats do, and no self-respecting cat would roll in crap. But that's the vagaries of domestication.

[barb162]

14. yeah, I never heard of a cat doing that

self-respecting or not and they are terrific hunters

[welshTerrier2]

9. yup ... "be the ball"

there's an expression some golfers use: "be the ball" ... that's pretty much what your dog is up to ...

read this

Question: Whenever I take my dog into the woods he always finds some droppings of other animals and rolls in it, he comes back stinking, please can you tell me why he does this?

Answer: I am afraid that this is an old instinct of the wolf that is still in your pet. When wild dogs or wolves hunt they will roll in the dung of their prey. They are in fact trying to get the smell of the prey on them. This way they can get closer to kill the prey. I think we have all suffered from this instinct!

just out of curiosity, is the author who provided the above answer suggesting in the last sentence that he also rolls in shit??

[sffreeways]

10. LOL !

Sounds like it. I wonder if Bush rolls in shit ?

[Mizmoon]

4. cause these housedogs think they are wild animals

They want to cover up their scent for "the hunt".

Mine loves to roll on dead animals, little birds we find while walking and the like. Yuck.

[whalerider55]

11. simple....

they are trying to amuse by doing a Karl Rove imitation. Dogs love to please their masters, and what better way than to do an imitation of the man called Turdblossom...

they are being creative, and as usual, we're too dumb to get it.

sheesh.
wake up and smell the cat poop.

altho the other night, my poochie ran into a skunk and caught blast one square in the face, and then a second blast on his butt while he was obviously trying to hightail it out of there.

enough to make you wistful about the smell of catcrap.

whalerider55 and stinky rufous the wonderpup

[UTUSN]

12. She's Being Passive-Agressive with You

She gets more attention/reaction from you when she does that. You could try it the LONG way and IGNORE her when she does that and GIVE HER ATTENTION at other times when she's NOT DOING THAT, which could take forever. Otherwise, get RID OF THE GEESE.

[sffreeways]

13. The geese

are everywhere. Beautiful animals but their poop wreaks. They don't even go south for the winter anymore with global warming effecting the northeast.

I couldn't ignore her if I tried unless I had an oxygen mask.

I don't think she appreciates my reaction which is pretty much to howl in horror and run for the bath which she absolutely hates.

Funny she loves to swim but hates the bath tub more than anything in this wrold.

I'm going with the predator theory. I hadn't thought of it, I don't know why I guess because she so old and really can't do much hunting though if she spots a squirrel she becomes a wild vicious beast.

I've tried everything I can think of to deter the behavior with no success.

I got rid of the open litter box and got one with a lid and she still put her head in there to munch. When the cat died I was finally relieved of the blast of bad breath.

[Johnny 99]

15. It's a lab

That's why. Don't bother trying to understand, I've given up myself.