Who’s a big, good doggo PHOTOINKE / Alamy Stock Photo
Call it small dog syndrome. It seems when smaller dogs urinate on objects on their walks they might be using this opportunity to deceive, by aiming聽higher to give the impression that their mark was made by a much bigger聽animal.
When male dogs spray urine, they are 鈥渟cent marking鈥: laying down an odour-based message to other dogs that communicates health, sex, and age. In this way, scent marking is considered an 鈥渉onest signal,鈥 relaying accurate information to potential competitors and mates about the聽animal’s聽attributes.
But when Betty McGuire…
