What Goes Through A Dog's Mind?

[arwalden]

When I open the back door and let Mitzi go outside, she immediately starts sniffing the ground for a PERFECT spot. Around and around she goes... nose to the ground... searching and sniffing... back and forth... around and around.

"Here? No. How about here? Not quite. Where-where-where? Gotta keep looking! I gotta go so bad, but I can't find the right spot! Maybe here? Okay. Nope! I thought I was gonna, but I changed my mind. Let me take two more steps... HERE! Ahhhhh!"

My question is this: In her quest for the perfect spot, is she searching for a spot that needs more pee? Or a spot that's already HAS some pee smell... so she figures that since it's already been used, then it's as good a place as any?

I wish dogs could talk.

[LostInAnomie]

1. I think I would have to kill my dog if he could talk.

It would be nothing but "Hey, throw this. Hey, Hey, throw this."

[Nite Owl]

2. I go for the HAS theory

I have two and they like to 'cover' the other ones spots. I'm tellin' though when we had that cold spell a couple of weeks ago, it was below 0, they just went, all that sniffin stuff didn't matter anymore. They got in the house so fast I thought they didn't go but there were no accidents so goes to show ya all that sniffin is just for fun.

[MikeG]

3. If they're sniffing around while INSIDE your house...

It means they're peeing in your house while you're not looking.

At least that's what my cat tells me.

But then he HATES dogs.

[kodi]

4. perhaps........

[RebelOne]

5. I know what my dog is thinking

And it is food, food, treats, treats, play, play. Because my poor doggie is shut up in the house all day from 6 a.m. until 4:30 p.m., when I come home and let her out, she doesn't sniff for a good place to go, she just runs out the door and does her thing. But when I take her for a walk later on, it is the sniff, sniff thing until she finds the perfect spot.