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They tend to poop nose south, butt north.

https://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-br ... n-pooping/

The researchers spent two years gathering the necessary data (i.e., watching 5,582 pee breaks and 1,893 defecation stops) in Germany and the Czech Republic. After ruling out the influence of wind, time of day, and sun angle, the researchers found that the only factor that played a role in determining how and where the dogs pooped a squat was the Earth’s magnetic field.

When the field was stable, dogs preferred to squat along the North-South axis and actively avoided the East-West axis. That’s without the influence of leashes, fire hydrants or fences.

The researchers don’t know if the 70 dogs in the study actually “felt” the magnetic pull, according to the paper published in Frontiers in Zoology. But the scientists base their conclusion on the fact that during periods of instability in the Earth’s magnetic field, when the sun’s magnetic field and solar winds vary its orientation, the dogs no longer showed a preference for the North-South axis.

I don't trust those sci@ntists.

You endorse a dogshit gap? The Germans and the Czech Republic are way ahead of us on this.

It's the same for gypsies. They only shit in doorways where their asses can point north and noses can point south.

Since seeing this story a week or so ago, I've been casually watching my dog. Sure enough, North South.

Watched mine today. He was 30 degrees out of alignment. Snout south west, butt north east.

Gonna have to start beating him.

My dog tends to shit with his nose pointing in the direction we were walking when I told him he could stop and shit.

seeahill wrote:Watched mine today. He was 30 degrees out of alignment. Snout south west, butt north east.

Gonna have to start beating him.

Were you using a magnetic compass? Montana has I think around a 12 degree Magvar

BTW, it seems that magnetic alignment helps these canines find mice

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2SoGHFM18I[/youtube]

There may be something to that. Next time I take Begonia out to poop I'm gonna bring a compass.

Andy80 wrote:It's the same for gypsies. They only shit in doorways where their asses can point north and noses can point south.

A compass won't get hair all over your clothes or make your house reak of that disgusting dog smell.

Dog shit update:

He was directly north south today. But his nose was north. Magnetic north: 11.5 degrees east of true north here.

Conclusions so far: The nose to the south thing is bullshit. The north-south alignment still looks OK.

Stay tuned for more urgent dog shit alerts.