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Your Dog’s Scent-Marking a Tool for Communication
Reading
your dog’s mind is little easy and what all you have
to do is just an observation of your dog and its behaviour.
A dog’s body language will reveal many things and for
instance your dog will show his disapproval by snarling or
even barking differently from its normal way of barking.Further,
in addition to what you hear you can also see your dog expressing
its mind by few other ways such as wagging it tails or growling.
There
is one more marked way of scent marking by which your dog
will try to establish its territory and dogs are known for
its scent marking behaviour whenever it reaches a new place
or other alien places. You can also see your own trained dog
doing the scent marking if you happen to move to a new home
and this will happen despite your dog’s proper potty
training. It is your dog’s natural instinct to scent
mark its new place so as to show the outer world its territory
and to feel at home in its new place.
Any
dog has got a very strong sense of smell and whenever your
dog finds a place without its favorite mark of smell, then
it will immediately mark the place with its own urine so as
to gain control over the area and to feel comfortable.
Dogs
normally carry out its scent marking act only with urination,
but few dogs were also seen rubbing their bodies against furniture
and other objects to leave some of their body odor on these
objects for later identification. Though such type of acts
also fall under the ambit of scent marking, most of the dogs
prefer to scent mark their areas with urine probably for long
lasting effect.
Whenever
you watch your dog doing the act of scent marking, you will
first observe your dog sniffing around the selected spot for
a while and then urinate the spot with only little quantity
of urine at a time. Once done, the scent marked area serves
the purpose of indicating outer world the territory of the
dog and all other dogs will be able to appreciate the territory
scent marked by their other counterparts.
If
you live in a place where there are many dogs outside, then
you can watch your own dog doing the scent marking act very
frequently and in many places and this is normal because on
seeing so many dogs roaming in the area your dog will get
more cautious to mark and protect its territory. You may have
a secure compound or a fence that will prevent entry of other
dogs into your garden or house, but your dog will continue
to do the scent marking act only to caution other dogs that
may venture to get inside your compound.
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