If only men marked their territory like Jack Russell terriers.

[MathGirl]

I'm still confused though

It's nice to learn that you're not totally gormless.
MG

 

[Guest]

Got a post-it note handy?

Cheerful dude, you're not such a slow learner after all.

Perdita

 

[raphy]

It's nice to learn that you're not totally gormless.
MG

Oh, I have my fair share of gorms.

Doctor says they'll go away very soon

R, still confused.

 

[shereads]

Re: Re: If only men marked their territory like Jack Russell terriers.

You mean - Can't we think of something equally harmless, as opposed to the means we currently use.... Which would we be what?

Bombing it, silly.

Did everyone undergo the brainwashing this week that makes us forget about the, uh, Liberation of Iraq? I was on the road. Maybe the special fear-deadening signals were being broadcast while I was listening to CDs.

This is like waking up to find that all of the neighbors have joined the Pod People. You Lit Pornsters are usually so quick on the uptake.

 

[shereads]

Does this mean sher, that if I decided you were my property and I pissed on you, you would just take it in stride?

No.



Edited to add: Welcome back.

 

[ABSTRUSE]

Re: Re: Re: If only men marked their territory like Jack Russell terriers.

Bombing it, silly.

Did everyone undergo the brainwashing this week that makes us forget about the, uh, Liberation of Iraq? I was on the road. Maybe the special fear-deadening signals were being broadcast while I was listening to CDs.

This is like waking up to find that all of the neighbors have joined the Pod People. You Lit Pornsters are usually so quick on the uptake.

The "who" are "free"?

 

[OldnotDead]

Re: Re: If only men marked their territory like Jack Russell terriers.

“Get outta my chair!”

“Do you own it?”

. . . .
And just what do you think all that urine does to the trees?

My cat (manly little duffer that he is) sprayed both of my stereo speakers. Two months later, I had to replace the foam baffle covers.

Like sulphuric acid, the stuff is, I believe.

Actually closer to muriatic acid, a weaker version. I'm hesitant here, because someone is going to correct me and tell me exactly which acid it is closest to. Muriatic and sulfuric are high in chlorine content, which pee generally is not. But just as you use muriatic acid to wash off bricks and clean up the lime, you can equally well get a bunch of your friends, fill them up with beers and piss on the bricks.

Around here, though, the muriatic acid route is cheaper. A few bucks a gallon which will do a few hundred bricks.

Now I'm off to replace the few hydrangeas which our third 'son' has seen to destroy with his unnecessary marking in our fenced back yard.

PS for Sher: I've always been partial to process servers over gunpowder

 

[raphy]

Re: Re: Re: If only men marked their territory like Jack Russell terriers.

Bombing it, silly.

Did everyone undergo the brainwashing this week that makes us forget about the, uh, Liberation of Iraq? I was on the road. Maybe the special fear-deadening signals were being broadcast while I was listening to CDs.

This is like waking up to find that all of the neighbors have joined the Pod People. You Lit Pornsters are usually so quick on the uptake.

Ohhh, I see

Sorry, I think my lack of interest in global current affairs precluded me from realizing what you were talking about. No brainwashing necessary for me. The war in Iraq doesn't even enter my head most of the time. (Don't watch TV, don't listen to the news on the radio, don't read newspapers)

Sorry for the confusion, dear.



p.s. I don't think the Iraquis would let us piss on them

 

[Virtual_Burlesque]

... I don't think the Iraquis would let us piss on them

We would ASK first?

 

[shereads]

Re: Re: Re: Re: If only men marked their territory like Jack Russell terriers.

Ohhh, I see

Sorry, I think my lack of interest in global current affairs precluded me from realizing what you were talking about. No brainwashing necessary for me. The war in Iraq doesn't even enter my head most of the time. (Don't watch TV, don't listen to the news on the radio, don't read newspapers)

Sorry for the confusion, dear.



p.s. I don't think the Iraquis would let us piss on them

Raphy, you and RG would make dreadful dogs.



The idea isn't to pee on the living occupants of the territory; it's to mark the perimeter so everyone knows that Iraq and/or that roadkill squirrel on the curb belongs to you now. RG, I have seen one or two male dogs who pee on the females they like, but they didn't seem to get very far with the ladies.

 

[shereads]

We would ASK first?

I imagine we would give them an ultimatum: Give up your weapons of mass destruction, or else.

 

[Remec]

I imagine we would give them an ultimatum: Give up your weapons of mass destruction, or else.

Um...wasn't that what we said before we rolled tanks and armored cars full of soldiers and other personnel into their sovereign State?

Just checking. I'm like Raph, news is sort of a weekly thing around the house here. I mean, I'll look at the headlines when they drop off the morning paper at the store, and sometimes stop and click on an item or three when logging onto AoL, Yahoo, or Hotmail...but, as a rule, unless it makes the news on Sat or Sun, or gets a writeup in People, EW, Rolling Stone or Playboy...I pretty much am at a loss.

 

[Guest]

I imagine we would give them an ultimatum: Give up your weapons of mass destruction, or else.

You're leaving out the UN's bogus part. P.

 

[dr_mabeuse]

Actually, my dog is doing a lot more than just marking territory when he’s peeing and sniffing.

As close as I can figure it, dogs do some sort of urine-based blogging. They must have some way of tranferring a lot more information than I can even imagine in their pee, and some of them have a lot to say. Apparently some of it makes for fascinating smelling. My dog will nose-glance at a spot, then jerk me back there. He’ll sniff some more, then pee on it as if to say “Yep! I concur 100%!” When he finishes, he might even kick his hind legs in the grass to try and broadcast his opinion around, like his opinion really carries some weight.

But he might not be done. Sometimes it looks like there was something there that was just so witty or important that he has to go back there and smell it again, just like you go back over a particularly fine piecve of prose, like maybe he couldn’t quite believe it the first time. I really don’t know what another dog could be saying that’s so fascinating (“Had asparagus last night!” or “Hey! It’s me, Spike! I’ve just been neutered!”) but Smoky’s entranced. It must have something to do with sex.

It must have something to do with sex (although Smoky’s been neutered himself) because sometimes he’ll start licking the grass with that particular attitude that speaks of some sort of remote cunnilingus. If I yank him along at that point (and I do yank. He starts to make me uneasy when he does that licking thing) he looks up at me with something depraved in his eyes, something I’d rather not see.

So I don’t know what they’re smelling, but it’s definitely more than marking territory.

---dr.M.

 

[shereads]

That makes sense, Dr. M. I've read that dogs perceive as much information through scent as we do through sight.

Which doesn't explain why my dog, a neutered female, age 12, is fascinated by the pee-blogs but has no interest in the dogs themselves. She obliges the other dogs at the park with a polite greeting, then ignores them as she races from spot to spot, sniff-reading the day's messages. When she's really intrigued by a news thread, she snorts, nose to ground, as if blowing scent up from the earth to make it more accessible. Really fascinating posts prompt a pee-reply on the same spot. But the dog who posted it is little more to her than an annoyance.

 

[shereads]

Um...wasn't that what we said before we rolled tanks and armored cars full of soldiers and other personnel into their sovereign State?

Just checking. I'm like Raph, news is sort of a weekly thing around the house here. I mean, I'll look at the headlines when they drop off the morning paper at the store, and sometimes stop and click on an item or three when logging onto AoL, Yahoo, or Hotmail...but, as a rule, unless it makes the news on Sat or Sun, or gets a writeup in People, EW, Rolling Stone or Playboy...I pretty much am at a loss.

There's a big war. Nobody has explained just why there is, but there is...You aren't the only one who's at a loss.

 

[Guest]

Mab., does your dog use emoticons? My bunny refuses (Maths is his role model).

Perdita

 

[Virtual_Burlesque]

... He’ll sniff some more, then pee on it as if to say “Yep! I concur 100%!” When he finishes, he might even kick his hind legs in the grass to try and broadcast his opinion around, like his opinion really carries some weight....

Er ... Doc,

What does the word “anthropomorphism” mean to you?

 

[Boxlicker101]

Assume for a moment that all male mammals have a need to own and defend territory.



Can't you human males think of something equally harmless? If not butt-sniffing and urine-marking, how about leaving claw marks on tree bark, like bears?

If it'll make you feel better, come on over and I will sniff your butt.

 

[shereads]

Er ... Doc,

What does the word “anthropomorphism” mean to you?

That's when dogs imagine that we have canine qualities, isn't it?

 

[shereads]

Re: Re: If only men marked their territory like Jack Russell terriers.

If it'll make you feel better, come on over and I will sniff your butt.

You should be so lucky.

 

[dr_mabeuse]

Which doesn't explain why my dog, a neutered female, age 12, is fascinated by the pee-blogs but has no interest in the dogs themselves.

She's like the average Literotica reader who wants the stories but has no interest in the author.

Of course, there are some Literotica readers who are way above average...

---dr.M.

 

[Liar]

That's when dogs imagine that we have canine qualities, isn't it?

My neighbor's dog treats me as if I had feline qualities.

Of course, I quite often smell cat. Since one of them insists on sleeping in my bed, and the other insists on sleeping on my feet.

 

[shereads]

How Dogs Read Blogs

From an article about training bloodhounds for tracking:

The English bloodhound puppy's floppy ears hang an inch or so below his jaw. They help funnel scent to the nose when Dillon sniffs a trail. The folds of skin on Dillon's forehead flop forward when the puppy lowers his head. This forms little pockets that trap scent, Davis said.

Humans have seven inches of surface area inside their noses that can absorb scent, Davis said. Bloodhounds have 22 inches.

Dillon will be able to pick up a scent from a footprint or a cigarette butt. A German shepherd can track a human's scent. But bloodhounds can tell the difference between scents from two people, making them the ideal dog to track a specific person.

A German shepherd can smell an apple pie baking a half mile away, "and a bloodhound could tell you the ingredients."

Bloodhounds also can pick up scent on a stream. Davis said he's had bloodhounds find a scent trail that was five days old.

 

[shereads]

So I don’t know what they’re smelling, but it’s definitely more than marking territory.

---dr.M.

Criminal activity and brands of floor wax.



"Bloodhounds are so good at what they do that their evidence is admissible in court in most jurisdictions. If a bloodhound tracks an escaped criminal to a specific spot, it's proof that he was there.

"The immensely long nose provides for colossal numbers of olfactory cells to be spread out; the wide nostrils allow air to be taken in and passed over those areas effectively; and the high, domed head makes room for the extremely well-developed olfactory region of the brain.

"The need to sniff everything is characteristic of dogs in general—dogs live in a world of scents we humans can't begin to appreciate, with our puny and ineffective noses—but the hounds carry it to extremes. A Bloodhound sometimes crosses a room by snuffling along the floor, following a scent trail only he can detect, and which tells him the entire history of the floor, who passed by and when, and what brand of wax was used last."