Rolling dogs

[strife]

I've noticed for quite some time now that both of my dogs, mainly the Sheltie, have been rolling around in the grass a lot. Now at my age getting me off of the lounge chair to check anything out would have to involve nothing short of the neighbor sunbathing topless but since the rolling had become such a ritual I had to go see what it was all about.

Turns out that the dogs love to roll around in the spent tobacco leaves of my cigar nubs! I tear them up and throw them around the back yard grass, figure it can't hurt, I mean it's like fertilizer, eh? Here's the remarkable thing, I know nicotine is toxic and used as an insecticide but how do the dogs know? I have to assume that they're rubbing the oils on to their coats to fend off critters!

Amazing how nature has given some creatures instinctive intelligence yet we humans don't know shit until someone teaches us and then half of us still don't get it!

 

[SkinsFanLarry]

My dog does it too, usually in the backyard, after I've cut the grass.

 

[Benzopyrene]

I dont know if there is any evidence for what you just said, but I find myself strangely curious, and need to look it up now. I have noticed that dogs seem to roll around on dead stuff they come across to get its scent, maybe the cigar carries your scent and its familiar to them. Or maybe theres a dead body in the backyard!

 

[strife]

Might be a coincidence but it's like watching a cat with catnip minus the stoned look.

 

[Shmear]

My dogs will roll only when you get them wet. Or when they just want to chill. Though, that is pretty cool, Mike.