Stone Soup by Jan Eliot for January 22, 2023

Food? I thought they just looked for other dogs’ pee.

Dogs’ dichromatic vision means they see mainly blue and green and shades of grey.

Checking his pee-mail.

When on a walk, dogs are stretching their nose muscles.

Cat’s brains can be like that too.

Reminds me a little of an old Far Side cartoon in which a scientist had invented a dog translator device. He took it out for testing with a dozen dogs barking at him. The translation: “Hey!” “Hey!” “Hey!”…

just like my dogs when I am carrying something or hear something “cracking” like a bag…or in my case meds so they come and I let them sniff the box so they leave after a shrug. hehe

Yes. That’s our dog. Thinks everything is food. Or anything that’s small and moves is a rabbit and wants to chase it.

Recently, my dog was following me from room to room. Each time I moved, she went with me. I was just thinking it showed how much she loved me when my wife closed a kitchen cabinet and the dog was gone like a shot. That’s when I realized that she was only following me around in hopes that I would go to the kitchen.

That’s what makes dogs easy to train using food as reward.

He seems very human to me. We also have one track minds.

One of my dogs just runs after anyone she sees, and she doesn’t care that I’m behind her, screaming at her to stop while I’m being dragged

If you can’t eat it, roll in it.

Biscuit is a “she”????

We have two love the cold, mamma cannot have, when mamma gets ready to go to a certain park the 3 dogs knows it and gets very excited, all dogs at this park has to be on leash.

Dogs are color blind, but I disagree that they can’t judge depth or distance. If that were so, how could they do things like hunt, fetch, catch frisbees in their mouths, or be guide dogs for the blind?

Of course they can do all those things without much color vision. They don’t not see color. They don’t see in black and white. But they only see two colors, yellow and blue. Look at the field equipment in dog agility trials and see if most of it is yellow and blue. Sometimes, they use red and white for things like a bar to jump over, because that looks to the dog like black and white contrast looks to you. So don’t buy your dog red throwing and fetching toys. Buy yellow, and he will be able to track and find them better. And we don’t see all color, either. There are large swathes of spectrum we can’t see that carry all sorts of useful information. Might not work for us to see them, since you can’t turn off perception of colors.

Biscuit also left pee-mail

Distance or Depth? Tell that to those frisbee dogs…..

Seen online recently: “Roses are food. Violets are food. Garbage is food. I go to the vet a lot.”