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Originally Posted by bgibbs

OK, this is something that has been troubling me since we got our puppies. Addie and Raider just turned three and I have always wondered why Addie turns clockwise before pooing and Raider turns counterclockwise. Every time. Is it because one is a female and the other is a male? Is one a Republican and the other a Democrat? Right wing, left wing? Conservative, liberal? Oh, I hope not!


Not troubling, but an observation. I read somewhere that there have been studies done, probably at taxpayer expense, as to whether or not dogs face a certain direction when pooing. I have noticed that Addie most often faces generally north, whereas Raider doesn't care. North, south, east or west. It just depends on where he quits spinning around.


I guess I just have an idle mind when walking the puppies!

The research was done in Europe so your tax dollars were not spent. There were no highly significant findings. Here are links to some of the articles:

https://www.researchgate.net/profile...itive-Dogs.pdf

https://frontiersinzoology.biomedcen...742-9994-10-80