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 2 months ago by dohpaz42@lemmy.world to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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henfredemars@infosec.pub 2 months ago
iii@mander.xyz 2 months 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 2 months ago
quarterly shower
Even humans wouldn’t recognise you before and after that.
Krik@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
They do.
My smell-name would probably be something like sweaty ass with a hint of Nivea.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 months ago
Finally, something that knows me by my street name: Big Smoke.
jef@lemm.ee 2 months 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 2 months ago
Link?
Etterra@discuss.online 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago
Nah, that’s what CATS named all of us
VicksVaporBBQrub@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
I believe I have been named (pseudo sneeze sound) + (happy grin pant) + (one second pack howl).
200ok@lemmy.world 2 months ago
What would be your dog name?
Pacrat173@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 2 months ago
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months 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 2 months ago
Grey Red. What the fuck?
TheOneAndOnlyDeath@feddit.nl 2 months ago
Ebony Fire… Sounds straight out of a R rated movie
naticus@lemmy.world 2 months 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 2 months ago
Ravenous Omega Warrior
I’m okay with this. I may be changing my username…
kambusha@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Wolfy McWolfface
dohpaz42@lemmy.world 2 months ago
My dog name would be pillow, because she loves laying on me.
sircac@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I am known as Bark Bark…
zorflieg@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Pleased to meet you Bark Bark, I’m Bjork Bach.
Etterra@discuss.online 2 months 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 2 months ago
Woof woof
Pudutr0n@feddit.cl 2 months ago
Some humans are named after angels.
spittingimage@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Were you in Miss Phipps’ class with Abaddon The Bringer Of Anguish too?
Pudutr0n@feddit.cl 2 months ago
Not that I’m aware of.
TheDeadlySquid@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Dogs don’t even know they are dogs.
fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago
Lemmy is a small place. Dave is friggin moldy. 😉
qyron@sopuli.xyz 2 months 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.