Frontiers in Zoology(PDF) – We measured the direction of the body axis in 70 dogs of 37 breeds during defecation (1,893 observations) and urination (5,582 observations) over a two-year period.
h/t POK
Frontiers in Zoology(PDF) – We measured the direction of the body axis in 70 dogs of 37 breeds during defecation (1,893 observations) and urination (5,582 observations) over a two-year period.
h/t POK
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but those observations reminded me what my dear old dad used to say about his hunting beagles wrenched over,
and looking like they were trying to shit peach seeds..
Boy I’m glad they did this.. I’ve often woke up in the middle of the night, pondering what direction a turd was pointing when a dog hunches..
An interesting study. I wonder if Tommy Chong was involved with this. Good advice to take your dog with you on a long hike in the woods. If you don’t carry a compass, you get a pretty good idea of the north-south axis by paying attention to the pooch’s pooping proximity.
Try describing THAT job to your mom…
Next question: When the doggy log is being laid does it start with the north end or the south end?
Proof, if proof were needed, that poop-scooping is a bad idea. Let sleeping doggie turds lie, that they may fossilize in place, and provide an iron-clad record of the geomagnetic field vector for future generations of scientists.
I walk my dog several times a day on long loop that is aligned on a north-south axis. He poops on the first long leg which is northward in the green space behind our row of houses. Since hearing of this study (a little before it was posted on SDA) I have been paying attention to his “orientation” when he poops and he is not conforming to the conclusion of this study.
“The study was supported by the Grant Agency of the Czech Republic.”
At least the Czechs are onto something important. Canadian scientists are f*****g the dog with alarmist global warming s***t!
Well, I carefully observed my dogs on this morning’s walk. The “pit stops” were at 90 degrees to each other and the male peed on everything and anything in random directions. This study did not indicate if only female dogs (will the real term pass the filter?) were assessed for urinary direction. Or maybe the magnetic flux was chaotic. Or, just perhaps, correlation does not equal causation and the study’s results are just coincidence.
Yes, but have they answered the age old question: Why does a dog lift his leg when he takes a leak?
When the IPCC isn’t hiring I guess you have to set your sight on one lower level to make that university degree pay. Dog shit is just as relevant as bull shit.
“We measured the direction of the body axis in 70 dogs of 37 breeds during defecation (1,893 observations) and urination (5,582 observations) over a two-year period, but decided to end the project when two of our researchers committed suicide..”
dog Shiite, what about the sunni dogs????
Every year thousands of more researchers / scientists / activists fall out of school expecting work.. About 1% of them are capable of genuine relevant work in the information age.. The rest become card punching political activists..
Democracy subverted to corrupt authority..
It reminds me of work an acquaintance of mine did on kangaroo hopping frequencies. He is a geophysicist
and was doing some work with a geophone array (in Australia, of course). Roughly 1 Hz signals were observed
in the middle of the night near their instrument hut. Upon installing an infrared video camera the culprits
were found to be kangaroos. The curious part, and the part which was not accepted at first by biologists, was
that the hopping frequency was largely independent of speed. Apparently the kangaroo (or the species observed)
hops at constant frequency but leans forward when it wishes to move rapidly.
Try 1 for Captcha. It looks murky.
No squat n’ dump for Ol’ Jerome, my one of a kind, purebred, Great Glengarry Moosehound. No Sirree!
I trained him from birth to do it on the fly. On the command, “Jerome! Trudeau!”, he streaks across the backyard into the bush with his tail raised. Woe to tailgaters and those who attempt to follow in his footsteps.
I have a few problems with this study.
” Last but not least, the argument that the dogs might orient with regard to sun position so that they turn with their back to the sun in order to avoid dazzling by sunshine during such a sensitive and vulnerable act as excretion can be questioned.”
Out of a dozen scientists, at least one should have come up with the thought that the sun may be a factor in the canine’s positioning.
They may as well throw out this study and start over, maybe this time do it at night.
Also, the study of 70 dogs included 18 daschunds,but only one Schnauzer. This skews the results. Why a plurality of little brown dog and their little brown logs? It would probably be best to do it all again, and have a team of scientists to observe the other scientists for possible bias.
I want to know the effects of the magnetic fields and how they relate to dogs pooing as much as the next person, but if we are going to do it,we should do it right the first time.
my doggie craps facing away from houses. I suppose to satisfy the loonies, it’s possible they face away from you. Or maybe cuz they value their privacy.(no joke)
Dare I say it? Is there any correlation to the fact that muslim facilities are not allowed to face mecca?
Having had numerous canines over the years I am always a bit intrigued by the habits/rituals of the species. Kind of like how most dogs will do several full circles before laying down to sleep. Usually in one direction. Another factoid is while most will squat and hunch to drop a trudeau, sled dogs seem to be able to do it on the run. This fact was found out while photographing several dog sled events.
It goes without saying that the government has no business funding this kind of doggy doodoo. Let Purina, Royal Canin or Iams fund it.
Men cannot think like dogs…. [There exists] a sharp difference in the mental capacity of humans and canines. For example, a human who is given an intricate problem will spend all day trying to solve it, but a canine will have the sense to give up and do something else instead.
Corey Ford
Here is a link to a study that apparently shows foxes have some sensitivity to magnetic flux. I mean, that would be one possible explanation.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2014/01/03/259136596/youre-invisible-but-ill-eat-you-anyway-secrets-of-snow-diving-foxes
I have a pretty good internal compass, so have check myself to this. And I did 2/3 ns and 1/3 ew. Of course that was the oreintation of the toilets
The most interesting part of that study was ,to me, how in hell did they make those upside-down question marks in place of letters in their names?
I’ve tried turning my keyboard U-D, still makes the mark upright. I finally turned my entire desktop upside down, very time consuming, and when I finished typing the question mark, it STILL came out as “?”. Just an upright q-m! Damnation!
I guess some mysteries are never going to be solved; Amelia Earhart, who really shot JFK,how did they fake the moon landings,and how did those guys do those question marks.
¿¿¿ yeah W T F ???
Ms. McMillan raises and shows dogs. She must therefore have an expert knowledge of dog excreta. Perhaps
she would be so good as to comment on the matter?
My dog isn’t Czech, he’s Canadian husky, so he just poops in whatever direction he happened to be walking when he decided to stop for a crap.
…and people wonder why there are so many over-educated people with PhDs and no job.
(with phony snobby continental accent):
It’s actually a remarkable process, it really is.
The scat starts out pointing generally straight out from it’s original direction of travel. Remarkably it is acted upon by the prevailing gravitational field, and eventually settles in a steamy semicircle or coil.
On rare occaisions it take a pellet-like form, but not as a general rule.
Cheque please…..
A friend of mine discovered that a skunk always pisses in one direction..