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Silly puppy.. - 7/8/2007 7:16:12 PM

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Well, back home, and met my family's new puppies. One of which has a very.. odd.. habit I'd like to ask about.

You see, she's under the desk I'm at at this very moment. She's pressing her nose against the lower wooden surface (the one just above the floor) and breathing hard.. snorting. Lots of snorting. She does this pretty frequently, in a variety of places.

Anyone know what might be either driving her to do this or other dogs that do?

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RE: Silly puppy.. - 7/8/2007 7:17:39 PM

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How old is she and what breed is she.
I might be able to answer, I think I know what it is, but I might need to know that first.

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RE: Silly puppy.. - 7/8/2007 7:23:23 PM

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Ah, she's about nine-months old, and she's a Carin Terror (not sure about the spelling on the first word, positive about the second).

PS- So she's pretty small, about 15lbs., I think.

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RE: Silly puppy.. - 7/8/2007 7:25:38 PM

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dont take this as a slight in any way,,,perhaps mice behind the walls? she can scent them easily enuff, and if she moves about, perhaps she is "tracking" thier movements?

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RE: Silly puppy.. - 7/8/2007 7:25:59 PM

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My pitbull does this because she's inhaling deeply trying to get a good whiff, then when she lets it out its a loud SNORT. She has done it since she was a puppy and is fine no health problems or anything.

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RE: Silly puppy.. - 7/8/2007 7:26:51 PM

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I think shes probably just sniffing, but at 9 months thats a little old to still be having issues with her sense of smell. At a few weeks, its would be shes trying really hard to smell something. At that old, it might just be shes trying to place a smell
and the snorting and grunting, well, that becasue shes a cairn, they do that

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RE: Silly puppy.. - 7/8/2007 7:56:51 PM

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She does it in rather odd places. Places one might think carry no scent, such as this desk floor, or the window cill (sp?), or a corner in her cage (no smell since it's removed and cleaned regularly, not because she's, by any means, a saint!).

She'll normally do it for a good while, too, in one spot- it's not just a momentary thing.

She does seem to normally smell things pretty well and often runs after food, even the wrappers that used to contain something like a chicken sandwich.

I'm at a pretty good loss for what it is she's doing. At this point, we just laugh and mark it off as her being cute- doesn't seem to cause any damage, hurt her, or annoy anyone. Just an odd thing I can't seem to figure out.

The sniffing idea's probably the closest thing to a plausible theory any of us have thought of so far, though.

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RE: Silly puppy.. - 7/9/2007 2:54:56 AM

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It's a security blanket for her..... the pressure is simulating nursing on her Momma.
she may do it for life.

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RE: Silly puppy.. - 7/9/2007 3:15:37 AM

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My Boston does this also. He walks up to things, and just runs into them with his nose sometimes sniffing and snorting when he does it. I have no idea why he does this, but he is almost 9 yrs old and has done it for as long as I can remember.

It's just one of many cute personality quirks...nothing wrong with him medically at all.

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RE: Silly puppy.. - 7/9/2007 6:37:30 PM

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Cairn terriers are scent hounds.....what she's actually doing is tracking a scent, and when she locates something she finds interesting, she snorts air into the scent to stir up the particles. Scents appear differently to a dog than they do to humans. If you watch any scent hound track something, say a bloodhound, you'll observe the same behavior in them. (Another peice of trivia...the bloodhounds ears actually enhance their ability to "catch" smells, when the dog puts his head down, they are actually at his nose, sort of scoops scent up to funnel it to his nose.) All dogs tend to do it as a rule, just some are more noticable at it. My lab/chow mix used to get his nose down and sniff and snort everything.....he'd even do it when he was tracking a scent in the air. You can always check with a vet, but, as long as her nose isn't runny, her eyes watering, and she's not wheezing, she's just doing her thing. Believe it or not, The US Army switched to using Cairn Terriers in Europe for drug dogs.....they have an excellent sense of smell, and because of their size, the handlers can lift them to check drop ceilings, tops of cabinets, and they can get into all the little nooks and crannies of heavy equipment such as APC's and tanks to check for drugs. The unit I belonged to there had one, and a little beagle named Sally. Both of them could crawl up into a tanks tracks and root around and pop right back out.....they were actually fascinating to see!

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RE: Silly puppy.. - 7/9/2007 7:04:41 PM

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Cairn terriers were originally bred to keep vermin from the graves, which were above ground and covered with rocks, due to the soil being impenetrable with a shovel. If you google cairn, that is explained better than my "farmspeak". Your puppy is doing what her ancestors were bred to do; hunt vermin. An honorable trait for any dog to follow their ancestry like that. By the way, cairns have a tendency to get overweight easily...take good care of your puppy. Obesity will shorten her lifespan.

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RE: Silly puppy.. - 7/9/2007 8:26:07 PM

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Hah, no worries, she's well taken care of. Somewhat slim, actually. We have her on a vet-recommended diet, with the occasional treats. I can definately see what you mean about "have a tendency to get overweight easily"...

From what I can tell, her and her sister's mind work like this:
1. Look around.
2. Find object.
3. Is object living?
-If yes, attack, then repeat step.
4. Put object in mouth.
5. Attempt to eat object.
-If able to swallow, do so. Then return to Step 1.
6. Chew.
-Return to Step 5 after ten seconds.

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