Funny Deanna, poop use to scare my Zoey too when she was a pup. She use to run away from it when she was done. Now she wants to examine the results. Weird huh? But I love them for their weirdness.
Evelyn ________________________________ From: Deanna Corey <[email protected]> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Sent: Fri, January 7, 2011 7:41:34 PM Subject: Re: [Chihuahuas] Why Dogs Kick There Back Feet After Potty Myrtle use to...poop scared her...she thought it was chasing her...it was hysterical lol! Deanna Sent from my iPad On Jan 7, 2011, at 4:34 PM, Evelyn Quintana <[email protected]> wrote: Neither of my chi's kick their feet after going potty but one of my girls walks while she poops. Does anybody else's dog do this? I have never seen a dog walk around while pooping. > > >Eveyn > > > ________________________________ From: Peggy & The Girls <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Sent: Thu, January 6, 2011 10:52:47 PM >Subject: Re: [Chihuahuas] Why Dogs Kick There Back Feet After Potty > > >Both my females do this. Princess, my eskie does nothing but mark territory >when >we walk. She is an Alpha female. Gigi will usually mark on top of hers. They >both kick afterwards too. In order to get them into a real walk, which means >no >stopping, no smelling, I have to walk them in the middle of the street, and I >keep the walk at a good brisk pace for a steady 30-45 minutes. It's great >exercise for them, and me, and they usually sleep for a couple of hours >afterwards. > >I don't know about scent glands in their paws, I never heard about that. I did >read once that by kicking, it spreads their scent from the pee or poop and >defines more territory. > > > ><Peggy&GirlsHeartTL2.gif> >-------Original Message------- > >From: Shanna Machanpalli >Date: 1/6/2011 10:43:00 PM >To: Chihuahua Group >Subject: [Chihuahuas] Why Dogs Kick There Back Feet After Potty > >Hi everyone > >I always wondered why a dog kicks his back feet after he or she does a pee or >poo. I thought it was a "male dog" thing to look big and tough. I recently >did >a google research on it and read that dogs have SCENT GLANDS in there feet and >kicking or rubbing them on the ground or grass puts there scent there for >other >dogs to be warned "I was here". > > >Ricky kicks after every single pee or poo... and on a walk he pees alot!! its >kinda cute to see him almost in slow motion as he does his kicking! > > >How about anyone else's dog, do they do this and it is a male thing or does >anyones female do it too. > > >shanna & ricky > > > > > > > >©2003 LongBraid Designs >
