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Why is it that the Doberman raises his leg?

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When we are spending time with our dogs we sometimes notice some behaviors that we don't understand. Raising the leg to do their needs is one of those behaviors.

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Everyone is now familiar with the fact that, for the dogs, the urine is more than the simple release of objectionable matter. Whenever they're walking, your main focus of interest is the "reading" of chemical signals deposited in different "points of smell" in your area, urine leg purview of other dogs. Each lamp tree trunk and is sprinkled with longing concentration. After smelling when messages have been carefully "read" the dog leaves his own personal brand, obliterating the previous one, with its own and powerful odor.

As a puppy (you should start a Doberman puppy training early to achive the best results), both males and females squat to urinate, at puberty, around eight or nine months, males begin to lift a rear leg to squirt your urine stream. The raised leg is stretched out and the dog's body is tilted so that liquid flow is directed sideways and not down towards the floor. The push to raise the leg is so strong that during a long walk, the dog urine can drain and be unable to produce the smallest jet of liquid. On such occasions, we can see the dog trying desperately to squeeze just a few more drops, so leave your "card-cards."

We pointed out three reasons for the fact that the males took up the leg, instead of crouching. The first and perhaps most important, the male responds to the need to make signs as fresh as possible. Leave them on the ground, making them more vulnerable than "putting them high" in vertical objects. In second place, the marks of the nose to the smell of other dogs making them both more conspicuous as points of odor and more accessible to the smell. Finally, it helps to inform the other dogs and to remind the authors themselves, the location of the messages of smell. We can see a dog approaching a pole or a distant tree, just to smell it and lift the leg. In other words, the choice of vertical marks helps to reduce the number of places where the smells can be found.

It is thought that a female never raises leg, but that's not totally true. About one fourth of the females raise one leg when they urinate, but do it differently from males. Rarely do female抯 raises leg in the same way that males do.