Discussion: A reason to take a dog with you orienteering

If you lose your compass, you can see which way he poops.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/01/02/dogs-poop-in...

I saw that also -- quite amusing!

So what's wrong with my dogs? Almost all of their poops line up east-west.

They did a 90 out of the control?

smittyo, it's their bodies that should line up, not the poop, so maybe your dogs have strangely shaped exit holes?

smittyo...I assume you read far enough to see the on leash/off leash criterion? I wondered that myself (having two dogs) until I saw that Pet Parentage seems to overrule natural instinct....

Dogs don't need maps. They sniff out the stinky control flags. Its canine assisted orienteering.

They're usually off leash. It might be what Cristina said. They have a doggie door and poop in the backyard. I'm just looking at the direction the poop faces, not the direction the dogs face. Ah well, time to go out and poop patrol!

I hear that years ago there was a rumor that a guy in Canada was getting all his good results by setting his hound on Ted de St Croix's scent and just following the hound. The story goes that the dog was not fast enough to catch Ted but he did not have to be for his owner to finish a consistent second. That's the story, anyway.