The Great Obelisk
I wouldn't call Pappy your classical obedient walker. Occasionally he is like a pinball following his nose and impulses every whichway, but not like some self-strangulating beagles of my past. But there is one point in our morning walk where he just manhauls me to this little strip of grass where he sometimes stops to poop, leading up to a phone pole where he always stops to pee.
The interesting thing is that we had a nice little snowfall this week, and for the first time I saw the pawprints of every dog in the neighborhood following the same processional path down that strip of grass to that phone pole. I get the whole "let's sniff each other's pee" compulsion among dogs, but this is something more. There's some bizarre ritual significance to this pole.
Gotta go, Pappy's licking all the road salt off my shoes in anticipation of his walk.
5 comments:
I always wondered if the most current "pee" cancels out the rest or is it like a layered cake where you can sniff your way all the way down to the bottom and see who was there first. Just wondering.
Fleasgang,
Interesting question. I keep seeing comparisons between sniffing a phone pole and reading a newspaper, so I am going to say all the rich and varied scents remain.
Great post; I'll be on the lookout for this phenomenon!
- Charlie's mom
Charlie's Mom,
If it's spreading, we may have cause for worry.
As a secret bonus to those of you checking comments-- I noticed one of the referrals to my site was someone using Google translations to view the site in Spanish. So I did what comes naturally and translated this post from Spanish back to English:
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