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November 6th, 2015 
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Humans are often embarrassed when a dog trots over and starts sniffing
at their groin, or pokes its snout in their butt. The dog has no idea
that placing its nose in these parts of the human body might be
offensive to some people, rather the dog is simply seeking information. ~ Stanley Coren – Video
The dominant sense for dogs is their sense of smell. Thus for canines
reading scents is much like reading a written status report about the
target of its sniffing. This is a common way to gather information from
other dogs, and in many ways dogs treat humans as if they were similar
to canines.
A special kind of sweat gland called apocrine glands produces scents that convey social information. These chemicals are called pheromones. Dogs
and most other mammals, have their apocrine sweat glands spread over
their entire body with higher concentrations in their genital and anal
areas.
The pheromone-releasing apocrine cells are even in the hair
follicles, so a dog’s fur gets coated with these chemicals and
concentrated for easier identification by other dogs. Bacteria begin to
act on these secretions almost immediately, modifying and intensifying
the smell.
Pheromone scents not only identify the sex, age, health and
mood of the individual but also carry a lot of sexual information as
well, such as where the female is in her estrus (menstrual) cycle, or if
she is pregnant or having a false pregnancy
Dogs even have a special scent detection system called Jacobson’s organ or the vomeronasal organ.
It is a sort of pancake-shaped pouch of special receptive cells that is
located just above the roof of the mouth. It has ducts that open to
both the mouth and the nose to allow scent molecules to enter it.
The
large number of nerves and rich blood supply to this organ tells us that
it is important to the dog, which is further verified by the fact that
there is a special region in the olfactory bulbs in the dog’s brain
dedicated to processing the information from this special smell
receptor.
In humans the apocrine glands are found only in certain areas of the
body, with the highest concentrations in the armpits and groin area so
dogs try to sniff these areas for the same reasons that they sniff the
genital regions of dogs.
As when meeting other dogs, strangers receive
the most attention of this sort, especially if there is a tinge of
sexual scent. People who have had sexual intercourse recently seem to
attract this kind of attention from dogs.
Women who are menstruating or
who have given birth recently (especially if they are still nursing
their child) will also often find dogs impolitely sniffing at their
genital region.
When a female ovulates this also seems to cause a change in pheromones
that attracts dogs. Some researchers noticed that the frequency of
crotch sniffing went up dramatically around ovulation and decided to put
this fact to use.
They trained some Australian shepherd dogs to pick
out cows that had just ovulated, allowing farmers and ranchers to
successfully breed these cows during their short fertile period.
The
dog’s “sniff test” is considerably easier to administer and more
reliable than most other methods of predicting ovulation. Perhaps this
could open up a new class of assistance dogs for humans.
Millions of
women, who, for religious or cultural reasons use only the rhythm method
of birth control, could be alerted by having specially trained dogs
inform them when they are fertile. It would also give a new meaning to
the familiar complaint of many husbands that their sex life “has gone to
the dogs!”
Nonetheless, many people have strong negative reactions when a dog
starts examining their body for scent messages. Once instance where this
negative reaction to crotch sniffing reached an extreme involved the
case of Barbara Monsky, a local political activist living in Waterbury,
Connecticut.
Monsky’s reaction was so negative when she was sniffed by a
dog that she brought a suit against its owner Judge Howard Moraghan and
his Golden Retriever, Kodak. Specifically she charged Moraghan with
sexual harassment.
Judge Moraghan often brought his dog to Dansbury
Superior Court and according to Monsky, it was in the courthouse that
the dog sexually harassed her when he “nuzzled, snooped or sniffed”
beneath her skirt at least three times.
She based her charges on the
contention that the judge was complicit in this harassment because he
had done nothing about it. Fortunately for dog owners everywhere, when
the case was finally brought before U.S. District Judge Gerard Goettel,
he dismissed the case.
In a later interview he explained that
“Impoliteness on the part of a dog does not constitute sexual harassment
on the part of the owner.”
November 3, 2015 – KnowTheLies
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