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Why Dogs Sniff Each Other's Butts (a tall tale)
8 years ago
My grandma was a vast storehouse of information. When it came to canine trivia, nobody could beat her.
For instance, dogs have a triangular shaped fold on the inside of their ears. It is on the back edge, about a quarter of the way from the base to the tip. Grandma called this their "pocketbook" and explained to me that this was where dogs kept their money when they went out shopping.
One day, when I was about five years old or so, my dad and I walked to Grandma's house. Our dog, a mutt named Lucy, joined us. Upon arrival at Grandma's, her dachshund Peppy and Lucy greeted each other in the standard canine fashion. I asked Grandma why they did that and here is what she told me:
Long, long ago, all of the dogs of the world would get together every year for a meeting. Upon entering the Great Meeting Hall, each dog would remove his or her tail and hang it on a hook in the lobby, as was the custom in those days. One year, a fire broke out during the meeting. In their rush to escape the burning hall, the dogs grabbed whatever tail was handy on their way out. As a consequence, all of the tails got mixed up. To this day, dogs sniff each other's butts because they are still looking for their own tail.
That, my friends, is the end of my tail.
For instance, dogs have a triangular shaped fold on the inside of their ears. It is on the back edge, about a quarter of the way from the base to the tip. Grandma called this their "pocketbook" and explained to me that this was where dogs kept their money when they went out shopping.
One day, when I was about five years old or so, my dad and I walked to Grandma's house. Our dog, a mutt named Lucy, joined us. Upon arrival at Grandma's, her dachshund Peppy and Lucy greeted each other in the standard canine fashion. I asked Grandma why they did that and here is what she told me:
Long, long ago, all of the dogs of the world would get together every year for a meeting. Upon entering the Great Meeting Hall, each dog would remove his or her tail and hang it on a hook in the lobby, as was the custom in those days. One year, a fire broke out during the meeting. In their rush to escape the burning hall, the dogs grabbed whatever tail was handy on their way out. As a consequence, all of the tails got mixed up. To this day, dogs sniff each other's butts because they are still looking for their own tail.
That, my friends, is the end of my tail.
Do you know why dogs have cold wet noses ?
When Noah set sail with his ark, one day the hull sprung a leak, the pair of dog's seen it, one stuffed his nose in the hole to stop the leak while the other went to notify Noah of the problem. There you have it, now you know why dogs have cold wet noses ! HA
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Merry Christmas, good sir! ^__^
tail, I mean tale. Merry Christmas to you as wellI was the one who was blessed to have her, even if only for a short while.
So, is this means that as we get to meet, were not sniffing tails? XP
Thanks for sniffing around my journals.