As you should know, humanizing dogs turns out to be a big mistake for multiple reasons, however, among them it is necessary to mention that such humanization tends to alienate people from canine behavior preventing them from understanding it properly.
If you only communicate with your dog through a purely human language you will miss a huge part of the relationship that may exist between you and your pet, and you will also be completely disoriented in the face of the numerous behaviors that you will not be able to understand unless you do it from a canine perspective.
Practically, some people tend to wonder,why dogs often smell people's crotch? And the answer is very simple, you just have to keep reading this post to find it.
Reasons why dogs often smell people's crotch
A frequent sign of canine communication
Canine language is usually quite complicated for people and of course to be able to understand it, it takes not only a lot of time but also a lot of dedication, however there is a very important premise that you must know and that is that dogs have a highly developed sense of smell, so that they tend to use this sense especially both in order to know their environment and to obtain information.
Dogs, like most mammals, have structures known as "apocrine sweat glands”, Which are distributed around the entire body, although they have a greater presence in the area of the genitals and the anus.
These glands generate an odorous substance which fulfills a very important function, which consists of transport social information. Normally, this substance is usually known as pheromones and through these, dogs manage to obtain a large amount of information about the other dog, such as age, sex, mood and possible variations in sexuality, as well as the period of the zeal in case of being a bitch.
To get information
Dogs that smell people's crotch have as their only purpose to get information about those people, in the same way that it happens when it does with other dogs, the disadvantage is usually that people are surprised by this behavior.
However, dogs often communicate with humans through the canine language and it is unrealistic to expect some other kind of communication that is a little more "humanized".
Humans also have apocrine sweat glandsHowever, these are not distributed around the entire body, but are only present in both the groin and the armpits.
This behavior is usually quite common when dogs do not know someone, however, also it is very frequent when they already know itIn this case, the only purpose of the dog when sniffing his crotch is to know how that person is.
They greet us warmly
In the case of a known person, this behavior could well be interpreted as if it were a warm greeting, since seeing it this way turns out to be much more understandable for people.
The behavior of dogs when sniff people's private parts, it is usually visibly accentuated when any of the following cases occurs:
- If people have recently had sexual intercourse.
- When women are in their menstrual cycle.
- If the woman gave birth recently and is breastfeeding.
- When women are ovulatingIn this case, the accentuation of this behavior is usually quite noticeable.
Although it is uncomfortable, the truth is that while the dog sniffs the crotch of the people, the most sensible and healthy thing for the dog would be not to try to avoid it, because intervening means preventing the dog from using its natural language, which turns out to be cruel.