The West Highland White, Stinking Pages
Instinct
 Its been said that the dogs ancestors while hunting for food, would
disguise their own body scent so that they could sneak up on their pray
without detection.
Its well known that animals in the wild have a keen sense of smell
and are able to sniff another animal several miles away. We are told
that the bear for example can smell a dead fish 2 miles away. Therefore
it is possible that the dogs ancestors over thousands of years
discovered they could cover themselves with something smelly to disguise
their own scent.
This ancient instinct may have carried over to domesticated dogs.
Mask your own scent for hunting would certainly fool the pray, who
would know the difference in smell of an enemy predator, as to that of
the local surroundings, after all would you be worried about the smell
of cow dung ? (Don't answer that) :)-
But how dogs may have learned to do this, will remain one of life's
unknown mysteries, as we have no real proof of this, and can only say
what we see in today's wild animals, for example the wolf.
And the other hand, they could be rolling in stinky things to
"advertise"
 I've
found some food |
