Do your dogs poop in a north-south direction?

[SaintLouieWoman]

Check it out and see if it's true. SR said that he had read this before. A friend in my greyhound group posted this link:

Directional Poop

Pointer Dogs: Pups Poop Along North-South Magnetic Lines

By Marc Lallanilla, Assistant Editor | January 03, 2014 04:12pm ET

Dog owners have observed some odd behaviors among their pets — sniffing butts, eating garbage, giving unconditional love — but one habit has probably escaped their attention: Dogs apparently prefer to poop while aligned with the north-south axis of the Earth's magnetic field.

That's the surprising conclusion of an exhaustive study, conducted by German and Czech researchers, who spent two years watching 70 dogs while they defecated and urinated thousands of times. The scientists then compared the dogs' behavior and orientation with the geomagnetic conditions prevailing at the time.

The researchers found that the dogs preferred to poop when their bodies were aligned in a north-south direction, as determined by the geomagnetic field. (True north, which is determined by the position of the poles, is slightly different from magnetic north.) [10 Things You Didn't Know About Dogs]



And while dogs of both sexes faced north


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[Rockntractor]

I have my dogs trained to crap toward Mecca.

[SaintLouieWoman]

I have my dogs trained to crap toward Mecca.

You have very talented dogs, sir. Maybe you can be the new dog whisperer.

[Novaheart]

Desi crapped East through a chainlink fence yesterday. But yes, he often faces north or south when pooping.

[Rockntractor]

Desi crapped East through a chainlink fence yesterday. But yes, he often faces north or south when pooping.

Kind of a dicey way to crap.

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[Bailey]

Great now I am going to have to take barings and whatnot when my dog does his bidness

[noonwitch]

Since Delia and I are still working on the housebreaking, I have noticed that yes, she does poop while facing either north or south. She's actually pretty housebroken on the poop thing-she has accidents when it's really cold and neither one of us wants to go out, but she does it on the tile now, instead of the carpet.


She pees wherever and whenever she wants to, though, preferably on the carpet. She just doesn't care.