# dogs **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [August 12, 1999, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dogs/2482 "1999-08-12T02:56:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![stallion99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c6cbf5/32.png) [@stallion99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stallion99)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 1999, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dogs/2482/1 "1999-08-12T02:56:00Z")
Why do dogs hate it when you blow in their face but when there in a car they always stick there heads out the window. ---
**Author:** ![mr\_john](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@mr\_john](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mr_john)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 1999, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dogs/2482/2 "1999-08-12T03:01:00Z")
Try a tic tac ---
**Author:** ![stallion99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c6cbf5/32.png) [@stallion99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stallion99)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 1999, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dogs/2482/3 "1999-08-12T03:08:00Z")
what are you talking about ---
**Author:** ![Nickrz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bbce88/32.png) [@Nickrz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nickrz)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 1999, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dogs/2482/4 "1999-08-12T03:52:00Z")
D’oh! MrJ, you really shouldn’t tease the lad. ---
**Author:** ![mr\_john](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@mr\_john](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mr_john)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 1999, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dogs/2482/5 "1999-08-12T04:19:00Z")
Wel when my dog blows in my face, i stick MY head out the window. ---
**Author:** ![Big\_Iron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e36b37/32.png) [@Big\_Iron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Big_Iron)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 1999, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dogs/2482/6 "1999-08-12T05:00:00Z")
Dogs usually kiss me when I blow in their faces. If only the chicks were so easily delighted … \ ---
**Author:** ![Nickrz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bbce88/32.png) [@Nickrz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nickrz)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 1999, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dogs/2482/7 "1999-08-12T05:18:00Z")
Try a Tic-Tac. ---
**Author:** ![Big\_Iron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e36b37/32.png) [@Big\_Iron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Big_Iron)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 1999, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dogs/2482/8 "1999-08-12T22:18:00Z")
Why I oughtta … ! ---
**Author:** ![Salieri2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Salieri2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Salieri2)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 1999, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dogs/2482/9 "1999-08-13T03:18:00Z")
My assumption has always been that it really is a question of scent rather than air movement, stallion99. Dogs have an average of over 200 million scent receptors in their nasal folds, where humans have 5 million. I think it’s a sensory kick for them to stick their noses out the car window and smell everything whizzing by at speed, sort of like a lot of student films with fast cuts and sound bites. I would also hazard a guess that on the highway, when you’re driving a lot faster, dogs prefer to stay out of the wind? Can anyone back these assumptions up with real facts? ---
**Author:** ![mr\_john](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@mr\_john](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mr_john)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 1999, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dogs/2482/10 "1999-08-13T03:28:00Z")
I have been driving at well fast and been passed by cars going 90, dog stickin his head out big ol tongue goin floppidy blap flop.Pickups goin even faster dog in the back, got his fore paws on the cab, ears streatched wayyy back. i am a westTexas boy. I love the wind in my face, can’t drive with the window all the way up, but i cant stand a narrow blast of air in my face. But then, though I been called a dirty one, i ain’t a dog. # (that was an anti SOB joke device,so no wise cracks)