# Can your pet tell when you are naked? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 18, 2000, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-your-pet-tell-when-you-are-naked/41712 "2000-11-18T03:31:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![aha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eada6e/32.png) [@aha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aha)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2000, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-your-pet-tell-when-you-are-naked/41712/1 "2000-11-18T03:31:03Z")
I think my shiz-tzu can. Sometimes she comes in the bathroom when I am drying off after a shower and looks but when I return her gaze she looks the other way and feigns interest in the commode or something. I figure she is just being coy about it. But then again I am drunk right now. ---
**Author:** ![dragonlady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/5f8ce5/32.png) [@dragonlady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dragonlady)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2000, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-your-pet-tell-when-you-are-naked/41712/2 "2000-11-18T04:51:42Z")
Yes. And even HE isn’t impressed. _sigh_ ---
**Author:** ![Fairy\_Princess\_Kitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/df705f/32.png) [@Fairy\_Princess\_Kitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fairy_Princess_Kitty)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2000, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-your-pet-tell-when-you-are-naked/41712/3 "2000-11-18T05:25:04Z")
I think my dog understands the towel but as to be naked I think he’s too stupid to figure it out. But I love my big stupid mutt anyway. Kitty ---
**Author:** ![Fairy\_Princess\_Kitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/df705f/32.png) [@Fairy\_Princess\_Kitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fairy_Princess_Kitty)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2000, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-your-pet-tell-when-you-are-naked/41712/4 "2000-11-18T05:27:49Z")
Does it count if I called my ex-boyfriend my puppy dog? I’m pretty sure that he would notice if I was naked in front of him. Kitty ---
**Author:** ![activgurl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7cd45c/32.png) [@activgurl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/activgurl)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2000, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-your-pet-tell-when-you-are-naked/41712/5 "2000-11-18T05:29:52Z")
My Siamese can tell the difference between jeans, sweatpants, and shorts. If I’m wearing jeans, he jumps right up on my lap; if it’s shorts, he does an interested peering motion, then turns away. If it’s sweats, he will sit beside me & look back & forth, questioning if it’s OK? Wish I could get that kind of intelligence in the dating pool around here. ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2000, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-your-pet-tell-when-you-are-naked/41712/6 "2000-11-18T05:42:49Z")
Mine can. The cats snicker, and the dog just sighs and shakes his head. ---
**Author:** ![Carina42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/439d5e/32.png) [@Carina42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carina42)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2000, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-your-pet-tell-when-you-are-naked/41712/7 "2000-11-18T12:01:48Z")
I have never noticed any difference in my pets’ reactions whether I’m clothed or not. But when I was a kid, we had milking goats. For a while, we also had a big billy goat. No female (person) on her period could go anywhere near him! He’d get very aggressive. I would bet dogs-especially intact males-would notice, too. ---
**Author:** ![Gunslinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4491bb/32.png) [@Gunslinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gunslinger)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2000, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-your-pet-tell-when-you-are-naked/41712/8 "2000-11-18T17:37:21Z")
The Evil Dachshund can tell. He gives me a really funny “what the…?”-type look. ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2000, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-your-pet-tell-when-you-are-naked/41712/9 "2000-11-18T18:06:45Z")
I think my dog can tell. She just stares at me until I put clothes on. ---
**Author:** ![SSgtBaloo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ac91a4/32.png) [@SSgtBaloo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SSgtBaloo)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2000, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-your-pet-tell-when-you-are-naked/41712/10 "2000-11-18T21:26:08Z")
My dog Buster sits outside the bathroom when I take a shower. He always looks a little nervous when I get out of the shower until I talk to him, then his reaction looks like “Oh! It’s YOU!” I think it’s more because when I shower, I’m removing most of the smells that identify me as ME, and he’s never sure it really _is_ me that’s stepping out of the shower until he hears my voice. ~~Baloo ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2000, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-your-pet-tell-when-you-are-naked/41712/11 "2000-11-18T21:26:09Z")
I don’t think my neighbor’s dog, whom I took care of, could. But then she was a puppy, and ergo- a relative innocent. Everytime I came up from having had a bath, she’d run up to me really excited and start licking the water off of me. Hmm. Maybe she _could_ tell the difference… Gun- does the “evil dachshund” have a name-o? ---
**Author:** ![MysterEcks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f475e1/32.png) [@MysterEcks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MysterEcks)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2000, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-your-pet-tell-when-you-are-naked/41712/12 "2000-11-19T06:58:51Z")
Maybe it’s just me, but I don’t ordinarily _get_naked in front of the pets. ---
**Author:** ![GraceTX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c4cdca/32.png) [@GraceTX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GraceTX)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2000, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-your-pet-tell-when-you-are-naked/41712/13 "2000-11-19T07:15:10Z")
My cat sleeps on one of my pillows. She curls up on the pillow and puts her head near mine. When the Mr. Grace and I get amorous, she gets up and turns her body so she’s facing the headboard. Sometimes she’ll jump off the bed and return when we’re finished. ---
**Author:** ![ricepad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b38774/32.png) [@ricepad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ricepad)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2000, 7:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-your-pet-tell-when-you-are-naked/41712/14 "2000-11-19T07:35:55Z")
I dunno if the dog can tell or not, but I do know this…she’s got a _cold nose_!