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Posts Tagged ‘leg lifting’

Why do dogs lift their legs on fire hydrants, trees, posts, tufts of grass and all manner of upright objects?

Thursday, July 30th, 2009

To expose themselves, their underside in general, their genitalia in particular.
But if that’s true, why would a dog want to expose itself to an inanimate object?
First, let’s review the traditional/behavioral interpretation of leg-lifting. Elizabeth Marshall Thomas in “The Hidden Life of Dogs” noticed that the higher a stain appears on a post or wall, the [...]




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