Have you ever noticed that when people take a dog on a walk, the dog usually gets really interested in any poop it finds from other dogs? A dog will nearly always stop and sniff with great seriousness, as though the poop contains important information.<\/p>\n
It’s as though there is a secret language, transmitted by smell, which only dogs know. A way for them to communicate which seems useless to anyone else, but is apparently of great importance to them.<\/p>\n
So maybe smelling poop is how dogs gossip.<\/p>\n
Or it could be the other way around. Maybe when we humans gossip, it’s our way of leaving poop for other people to find.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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