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dohpaz42@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months ago

If we give human names to dogs, do they give dog names to us humans?

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If we give human names to dogs, do they give dog names to us humans?

dohpaz42@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months ago
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    Don’t dogs identify individuals mostly based on smell? Would you have a smell-name?

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      Is that true? Explains why my dog behaves differently after my quarterly shower. Poor dude doesn’t recognise me.

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        quarterly shower

        Even humans wouldn’t recognise you before and after that.

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      They do.

      My smell-name would probably be something like sweaty ass with a hint of Nivea.

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        Finally, something that knows me by my street name: Big Smoke.

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      This led me down a weird chain of thought where I ended up at an internet for dogs, where they complain about smell profiles, and smellprint resisting browsers.

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        Link?

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      POV, you’re a hard working mechanic and you’re dog calls you “Crotch Funk McGreasyclothes.” But you don’t speak dog, so all you know is that they love to stick their snoot in your crotch the second you sit down after getting home from work.

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