OMG! She rolls around in Poo

[texascowboy1979]

Ok... I need help with this one... I dont know what to do.. Josie is well behavied... so far...

Well. Today for her morning jog / run in the feilds... everything went well. She was about 15 feet from me and I saw her rolling on the floor and thought... AHHHHH, how cute... her feet up in the air as she was scraching her back... Very cute... Then when she got up.. I noticed that she was rubbing cow poo into her coat.. EWWWWWWWWWW... she then went to another cow poo area and did it again..

What is this behavior mean? My other dogs dont do this... It has to be a wolf behavior, so I think, because my dogs dont do it.

[lassie]

think yerself lucky its not foxes:D

[skunkstripe]

If you figure it out, let us know. This has been one of the great mysteries to me. How an animal with such a highly refined sense of smell as a dog can choose to roll in the most vile smelling stuff.
You think cow poo is bad? Lassie you think fox poo is worse? I have both of you beat.
A couple of summers ago we had guests and in their honor boiled up some whole lobsters. Some of the stuff (I think the guts) is not very appetizing so it was refuse along with the shells. Being borderline rednecks, my husband tossed it out into the woods near our house. Well a week went by (a HOT one, after all it was August) and Zircie came back from a trip to the woods with a dab of bright orange behind both ears. Rotten lobster. The only thing I have ever smelled worse than that in my life had been dead for a while. :sicksmiley:

But seriously, some say that dogs roll in nasty stuff to cover their own scent as s throwback to their hunting days. Personally I think they just find it appealing.

[Maria]

I was going to say the same thing Skunkstripe. I was watching a programme abouts dogs and how they first became domesticated and apparantly that is exactly why they do it, to cover their own scent. Mind you don't know why my Lab does it, when he's been out in the rain he stinks like an old smelly sock anyway:D :D

[lassie]

OMG SK foxes is bloomin awful. especially on a very hot summers day when they have to go back home in the car:( . Not privleged to lobsters here;) . thanks goodness from your account.

Wonder why only 1 of mine does it and not any of the other 4?. Caught her yesterday just about to roll in it:wtf: .

[tophat]

Charlie my one dog thinks that when she's rolled in the foxes mess that she smells of Charlie no. 5!!!!!! The other dogs think that she smells gorgeous and try to rub against her. Mind I get the last laugh Charlie hates being bathed, so as I'm washing her I take great joy in telling her that if she wants to roll in such foul smelling stuff then she must put up with the consequences!!

[vagreys]

My Weim came home, one day, after rolling in a dead sheep. It was...incredible. Rest assured, though, that rolling in smelly stuff is common dog behavior. Just feel lucky that not all of your dogs have done it. Our pup, Damiri, likes to roll in stuff at the dog park. At least she has stopped eating it. The citrusy dog shampoos seem to do a good job of removing the stench.

[alibob238]

Ah yes, fox poo. Sparky had her first experience with it yesterday. thought i would be sick washing her, need to get a stronger stomach if its common behaviour i guess!

[palaunis]

yep can sympathise wiv the fox poop , but my piper likes rolling in her own poop , god knows y , she plays patti cake in it then lies in it , go figure lol but shes smelly lol

[Kaos]

Sadly very normal dog behaviour in my experience. Cow poo is definitely mild compared to fox poo, but decomposed eel is to date the stinkiest thing I have ever known my dogs to roll in. Three shampoos and hosings later I could still smell it!

My cats are horrible co-conspirators, they regularly catch it, leave it in the sun to decompose, then watch while the dogs find it and roll in it. They have the last laugh as the dogs get dragged away for yet another hosing...

[Kaos]

Oh, and with my dogs at least, rolling whilst on a walk is very seldom an innocent playful act!

[dlambertz]

Years ago I was told dogs do this to cover their own scent. I hated going to the lake with our girls...seemed they always found the dead fish that washed up on shore

[City girl]

I had a chow who killed a oppossum and rolled in the carcus! nothing could of been more disgusting than that!
I do understand your dilema though LOL!!

[cat2006]

Hi.

My two both roll!:rolleyes:

Emma, who is a dachsound x cairn rolls in anything that smells bad, fox poo, other poo, especially horse poo! old milk carton with curdled off milk inside, anything!
Sonny, who is an 8 month old yellow lab, rolls all the time, throughout his walk, in anything, I have to bath him, sometimes daily, depending on what he has rolled in, last week they both rolled in something that smelled of rotten fish!:rolleyes: I gagged all the way home!

[MrsRottie]

Dunno if this is any help to fox poo roller owners, but I was once told if you rub the area of the fur with tomato ketchup and a tissue it should get rid of the smell.....think it might be something to do with the vinegar but not sure!

LOL yet another of my pearls of wisdom (:eek: :kookoo: ) that I've never actually tried - so let me know if you do please!

[alibob238]

haha new one last night, Sparky rolled in...............bird poo. Lucky it was crusty so didn't need clearing up hahahahaha