Question in New Scientist this week: "If a dog's sense of smell is thousands of times more sensitive than ours, why do they have to get so close to smell each other's bottoms?"
NS is offering £25 for an answer to this burning conundrum.
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Question in New Scientist this week: "If a dog's sense of smell is thousands of times more sensitive than ours, why do they have to get so close to smell each other's bottoms?"
NS is offering £25 for an answer to this burning conundrum.
So I got a cinnamon broom from TJs today. First hung it on basement door,basement side. Too strong. It's now hanging on a door on the basement cabinets, in the middle. Still strong. OTOH, better than the catlitter perfume?
My sister is visiting for my birthday. Today, we went out to brunch, where I got a vegan cronut; then we went to Findlay Market, where I said hi to one of my students who was working there; and went out for Ethiopian food. We were going to go out to a wine bar afterwards, but my knee is hurting, so we're staying in and watching Trainwreck instead.
Other than the knee, that sounds pretty dang good! Many happy returns, Hil.
I'm going to guess because the general stank of other dogs masks whatever identifying pheromones they're actually looking for until they get in close?
Just put away money B gave me for TJs food I picked up. Way over reimbursed me. I'll rake his leaves tomorrow in retaliation.
I don't think so, Matt. From what I understand, dogs are really good at identifying different scents in parallel, one doesn't mask another.
I would think they just like it. They can sniff each other from farther away, but why not get in close to the source if you can?
went out for Ethiopian food
How was it?
How was it?
Pretty good. Not quite as good as my favorite Ethiopian place in NJ, but I'd definitely go there again. (It was Emanu in Pleasant Ridge.)
Oh, and my sister said that the cronuts at Happy Chicks were better than the one she had at the place that first made them. They only have them here on Saturdays, and they do different flavors each week. This week, they had orange chocolate chip and blackberry.