sometimes i carry the orange cat around so he can sniff the high-ups. We’ve done this since his childhood🤷it is his house too, he should know what the light switches smell like
My childhood dogs Norton and Bee always had to sniff the brush and nail clippers before they were used on them JUST IN CASE they were suspicious this time
My salvation/pointer mix keeps her nose to the ground AT THE DOG PARK!!!! She has to smell every grocery and shopping bag that enters the house!!! Of course we let them do it because we want to make them feel included!!!
One of the brazillion things that I love about dogs is their fearless curiosity. Come home, dogs smelling my pant legs, hands, whatever I’m carrying. 💙💙💙
I do this with my cat 🥹 unless it's chicken or shrimp he rarely cares, but he needs the sniff to be sure he's not missing out on anything he is rightfully entitled to (like chicken. or shrimp.)
I figure the dog isn’t interested in the tv or the internet, and he never gets to pick the music, so sniffing the deliveries is his “oh interesting” moment
Some dogs and cats do seem to already have interesting days, watching out the window and such, and don't show interest in mail.
But if their preferred "interesting" moment is a quick sniff of the mail, why not?
Not just to feel included, but also to have a fuller understanding of what's going on with me at the moment. I'm aways in wonderment about how much information my dog picks up from a couple of sniffs.
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Idk man, I just try and treat them how I’d like to be treated, and I am one curious motherfucker.
I started doing this to entertain baby sisters.
I do the reverse with cats, "flying" them over to sniff stuff where they look.
https://phys.org/news/2025-04-dogs-world-scientists.html
Some dogs and cats do seem to already have interesting days, watching out the window and such, and don't show interest in mail.
But if their preferred "interesting" moment is a quick sniff of the mail, why not?