Why do dogs love eau de ver de terre? "Oh, you took French?" you might be thinking. Why, yes, I did. Yup, 'round 5 years worth and I have the vocabulary of a three year old and must only speak of current events.
So the stray, from now on referred to as FJ, was romping around the yard. He stopped to inspect a weed (one of many). I thought nothing of it, but then he just went to town rolling all over that spot.
"Ah," I thought, "dead worm."
I tried to pick it up to toss it somewhere where he couldn't roll on it, but it was stuck in the hard, caked dirt. Which I guess might have been the cause of its death. It wasn't the dry, dessicated kind of worm that resemble jerky. It wasn't even really dead...
Later that evening, my mom and I took Lilah and Ritter outside. Lilah stopped right at that spot and smelled the ground deeply for a minute, while I pointed out that that was where the FJ was rolling on the dead worm.
"Well, I guess it's a good thing Lilah doesn't roll around..." Lilah gracefully lowered her head and drove her cheek against the "dead worm." She had a grand old time rolling all over that poor dead worm.
Of course it goes without saying that once Lilah had her fill, Ritter took his turn, happily snorting all the while.
Don't those dogs know that if you want to attract attention you have to choose a scent that stands out and plays off of your own natural fragrance? Now they all smell like funky, damp earth.
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