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meyati |
Query-Why do dogs stick noses in each others' ears?
Jul 23 2009, 9:51 AM EDT
| Post edited: Jul 23 2009, 10:05 AM EDT
Why do dogs stick their noses deep into each others ears? My 2 hounds do that, and it seems to be when they have something on their mind or one of them returns from a quality walk with me. Sometimes when I bend over to collar one, etc or I'm watching TV in a recliner, they'll come over and stick their noses in my ear and really take some deep sniffs. They started doing that to me this spring, when I was really sick-had to take 2 courses of anti-biotics- If you believe in the pack thing like Cesar Milan, the Dog Whisperer-what is the status of a pack, where a dog sleeps to the left of me and the other dog sleeps to the right of me? Their background-ferel hounds that ran and fed themselves in the Southwest desert mountains. Didn't know nothing-but are gentle idiots. each one gained about 30 lbs in the first 90 days-now their weight remains steady. They didn't like any type of dog food-dug up lots of my plants and ate the roots, the fruit off the trees, lizards, bugs-insects, raw potatoes from my kitchen, birds, etc. Cooked white rice is still a favorite target of a kitchen raid. Do you find this valuable? |
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pdomzalski |
1. RE: Query-Why do dogs stick noses in each others' ears?
Jul 24 2009, 1:08 PM EDT
My hound sniffs and licks my other dog's ears and the cat's ears too. Maybe it is a hound dog thing since my lab mix does not do this. My hound gets dirty ears alot and I have to clean them or he can get infections. Do yours? I thought maybe since I clean his ears that he thinks of it as a way of caring for others he cares about. He does seem to do it in an affectionate way.
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Nexus_Inferno |
2. RE: Query-Why do dogs stick noses in each others' ears?
Jul 24 2009, 9:24 PM EDT
My bassett hound does it quite regularly, and so does my Koolie though I think she learnt it from Bailey my bassett hound. I definately think its a hound thing, but I think its just their way of checking up on you and showing they care as my two dogs do each other every morning and occasionally during the day or like you mentioned after we take one of them for a walk. I don't know if it started because of cleaning the ears because I do that to my bassett hound quite regularly as he tends to get dirt and food in them all the time but his favourite food is cooked white rice and chicken, and if he can reach the fruit off trees he'll eat it. My mother used to have a mulberry tree in her backyard and everytime we went to visit he'd stretch himself up to pick them ever so daintily it was hilarious to watch as he'd try and balance his slinky of a body to get that high luckily the mulberry tree and long sweeping branches so he didn't have to stretch too far.Perhaps the ear thing is to do with smell? Do you find this valuable? |
