Why do dogs roll in dead anamal carcus....whatever dead animal ruins?

Question

such as road kill

Answer 1

Two reasons.

1. They like the smell.

2. They are not concerned with what type of cruelty the dead thing in question might have endured before it died.

Answer 2

to hide their scent so they will be less of a threat when it hunts, its a leftover trait from the days when they were wolves

Answer 3

Basic instinct, to cover their scent.

Answer 4

What smells good to us, fruity shampoo for example, stinks to them. They like rolling especially after a bath for this reason. They like smelling gamy because it's just the way they were created, and they've been doing that for hundreds of years. It's an instinct  their blood. Shame it can't be stopped!

Answer 5

I can´t understand anything you are saying, sorry :(

What´s anamal and what´s carcus?

Must be cos I´m from Spain...

Answer 6

To mark it as their property. I have no idea why. 0_o

Either that or to cover their scent.

Answer 7

They do? I've never seen this before.

Answer 8

It's people who think dogs should smell good or have no odor at all.  Dogs think differently ... when they see a dead animal carcass, they roll in it to smell like it.  Other animals, smelling that odor think 'it's safe, that is dead' and get closer, and if the dog was in the wild, it could then pounce on that animal and kill it for supper.  Dogs are basically just wolves we've tamed, and they still have the instincts of those wild animals ... and I know it may look silly when it's a pomeranian or a chihuahua and there is NO wildlife around, but that is why they roll in the remains ...

Answer 9

what crack is ur dog on