Re: [Chihuahuas] Why Dogs Kick There Back Feet After Potty

Fri, 07 Jan 2011 18:47:27 -0800

Maggie stands on her back legs while she poops, which is better than her sister who use to like to eat her poop :( - it was so awful, but I broke her. Nancy

Let's pray that 2011 will be peaceful for all the world!

Nancy, Abbey-Rose and Maggie-Mae

 

--- On Fri, 1/7/11, Valerie Mockett <[email protected]> wrote:


From: Valerie Mockett <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Chihuahuas] Why Dogs Kick There Back Feet After Potty
To: [email protected]
Date: Friday, January 7, 2011, 6:19 PM


     My dog walks in a circle on her two front legs while she poops and sometimes kicks her back feet after wards
.  Valerie                                                            --- On Fri, 1/7/11, Evelyn Quintana <[email protected]> wrote:

From: Evelyn Quintana <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Chihuahuas] Why Dogs Kick There Back Feet After Potty
To: [email protected]
Date: Friday, January 7, 2011, 4:34 PM

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.
 
 
 
-------Original Message-------
 
Date: 1/6/2011 10:43:00 PM
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

 
 
 
 


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