Don’t dogs identify individuals mostly based on smell? Would you have a smell-name?
If we give human names to dogs, do they give dog names to us humans?
Submitted 5 weeks ago by dohpaz42@lemmy.world to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
Comments
henfredemars@infosec.pub 5 weeks ago
iii@mander.xyz 5 weeks ago
Is that true? Explains Now why my dogs behaves differently after my quarterly shower. Poor dude doesn’t recognise me.
lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 5 weeks ago
quarterly shower
Even humans wouldn’t recognise you before and after that.
Krik@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
They do.
My smell-name would probably be something like sweaty ass with a hint of Nivea.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 5 weeks ago
Finally, something that knows me by my street name: Big Smoke.
jef@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
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.
lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 5 weeks ago
Link?
Etterra@discuss.online 5 weeks ago
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.
MoreFPSmorebetter@lemmy.zip 5 weeks ago
That’s the best part. It’s actually the same name either way. They just pronounce “dipshit” different than we do is all.
Kidra@sopuli.xyz 5 weeks ago
Nah, that’s what CATS named all of us
VicksVaporBBQrub@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
I believe I have been named (pseudo sneeze sound) + (happy grin pant) + (one second pack howl).
200ok@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
What would be your dog name?
Pacrat173@lemmy.ml 5 weeks ago
lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 5 weeks ago
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
Mine is just about as boring as possible: “Grey Wolf” 🤦
If we go with my Lemmy name, though, i’d say that Graceful Red is a pretty good nickname for a 1950s lounge singer 😄
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Grey Red. What the fuck?
TheOneAndOnlyDeath@feddit.nl 5 weeks ago
Ebony Fire… Sounds straight out of a R rated movie
naticus@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Lol gdi I showed my friend this over a decade ago and she would call me Beautiful Vixen for years just to annoy me. … I should send it to her again.
dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 5 weeks ago
Ravenous Omega Warrior
I’m okay with this. I may be changing my username…
kambusha@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
Wolfy McWolfface
dohpaz42@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
My dog name would be pillow, because she loves laying on me.
sircac@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I am known as Bark Bark…
zorflieg@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Pleased to meet you Bark Bark, I’m Bjork Bach.
Etterra@discuss.online 5 weeks ago
I read a series of HFY stories that showed the human and a some dogs (all abductees) getting telecommunication brain chips, and they absolutely did. They called humans “name-givers” and took pride in their many names and nicknames as bestowed by their particular name-give friends and family.
alphacyberranger@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
Woof woof
Pudutr0n@feddit.cl 5 weeks ago
Some humans are named after angels.
spittingimage@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Were you in Miss Phipps’ class with Abaddon The Bringer Of Anguish too?
Pudutr0n@feddit.cl 5 weeks ago
Not that I’m aware of.
TheDeadlySquid@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
Dogs don’t even know they are dogs.
fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 4 weeks ago
Name your devices after humans.
Tommy needs larger memory.
I think I’m going to reboot Denise.
I dropped Dave today.
dohpaz42@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Fuck Dave. Dave is a piece of shit. Put him in the drive shredder, melt him down, and launch his pathetic ass into orbit.
~Yes, I have an issue with a Dave in my life.~
fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 4 weeks ago
Lemmy is a small place. Dave is friggin moldy. 😉
qyron@sopuli.xyz 5 weeks ago
I have two dogs and they bark at me in an unique way when requesting my attention or when I’m arriving home, so I expect that to be my “name” to them.