Decoding Pee and Poo

I just got back to the house after a walk up the road with Mom and Lee.  There are lots of caribou around which is really great.  Their poo is in little pieces like bunny poo only better.  Anyway, before anyone starts getting upset about poo references you humans should know that I get a lot of information about my neighborhood from poo - and pee for that matter.

The great thing about poo and pee is that I know who's been by for a visit, who came into the yard or who just passed by on the road.  I can tell who's in heat, who's been eating meat recently, who is mad because I peed on their spot ...  The information is endless.  And during the winter it lasts a long time.  I just love burrowing into a snow bank and sniffing out some fox pee.  In the summer a good rain will wash away smells.  Humans have to be together or write notes to each other to exchange the same information. Let's face it, the digital age has done away with notes so what are you going to do?  Us dogs don't need to be connected to the spider web to know what is happening.

There are conditions that can be confusing.  For instance, if Lee runs over wolf poo from 15 miles away and then drives in the yard, it takes me a while to figure out that the trail leads back to the tires.  Once I get to the tires I know every dog on the mail run that peed on the tires.  This poses a personal problem for me because as some of you know, corgis are undertall.  We're supposed to be that way.  But I can't really pee on tires.  So I try to poop in the drive way so that Lee will run over it before he goes out on the mail run.



Getting back to my walk, the coyotes have been around and did some scratching and peeing much closer to the driveway than I appreciate.  I had to do a lot of marking.  Plus there has been a lynx around and it's not one of my friends from this summer, so I had to mark that.  Then a wolf left a big pile of poo in the road.  It had been eating caribou.  If caribou taste anything like their poo then I know why the wolves like 'em.  The coyotes had been eating hares and something dead.  I mean something dead that they didn't kill.  It reeked.  Of course I couldn't roll in the smell cause Mom was there.  These wild animals have some perks but I like getting fed on a regular basis.

I need to get a drink of water.  I'm dehydrated after all that peeing.

Your friend,
Pearl