# In Praise of Pooches (Fun Dog Trivia) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 10, 2021, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-praise-of-pooches-fun-dog-trivia/939767 "2021-04-10T21:25:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![mordecaiB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mordecaib/32/7725_2.png) [@mordecaiB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mordecaiB)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2022, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-praise-of-pooches-fun-dog-trivia/939767/61 "2022-12-12T23:16:16Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > Reading again, I understand what you mean Dung\_Beetle. I have been tempted to try it. Come on, you can’t just leave us hanging here. Now that you posted, everyone needs to know the answer. I didn’t even know there was dog ice cream. Maybe slip some to your wife, accidentally. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2022, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-praise-of-pooches-fun-dog-trivia/939767/62 "2022-12-12T23:17:49Z")
Well, that would keep her from eating all of our ice cream… 🤔 ---
**Author:** ![mordecaiB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mordecaib/32/7725_2.png) [@mordecaiB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mordecaiB)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2022, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-praise-of-pooches-fun-dog-trivia/939767/63 "2022-12-12T23:24:15Z")
See, the plan is already forming. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2022, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-praise-of-pooches-fun-dog-trivia/939767/64 "2022-12-13T01:25:57Z")
Pointing at things and the dog looks at is a hard concept to learn but once they know it, it is a curse. I tell the dogs the store bought(not by me) pupperonis are all gone. They all look at the pantry door. I decided to trick them one day and put the pupperonis in the freezer in the garage. They conveniently came begging later that day. I said “All gone” Simultaneously they looked at the door to the garage. Yep that deserves a treat, I think. I go out to the garage with my doggie parade behind me. The pupperonis were frozen solid. I dropped one and it shattered. All dogs scrambled for a piece. Now they get less treats but are happy as clams. Don’t know about doggie ice cream but they love frozen pupperonis. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2022, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-praise-of-pooches-fun-dog-trivia/939767/65 "2022-12-13T01:44:28Z")
My Bernese loved Haagen-Dazs vanilla ice cream\* (and so do I) so I never really saw the point of doggie ice cream. But if your pooch prefers the special doggie variety, by all means indulge him! 🐕 \* - His usual birthday dinner always included two bacon-wrapped filet mignons, grilled but just rare, and Haagen-Dazs vanilla ice cream for dessert. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2022, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-praise-of-pooches-fun-dog-trivia/939767/66 "2022-12-13T02:39:20Z")
Can I be your dog in my next life? ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2022, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-praise-of-pooches-fun-dog-trivia/939767/67 "2022-12-13T02:46:12Z")
Sure! You’re smart and spunky – you’d make a great dog in your next life! And my dogs have definitely been treated like royalty. I just don’t know how hard it might be in the Afterlife to make it from Arkansas to Ontario. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2022, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-praise-of-pooches-fun-dog-trivia/939767/68 "2022-12-13T03:12:32Z")
We won’t worry about that. I’ll get there! ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2022, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-praise-of-pooches-fun-dog-trivia/939767/69 "2022-12-13T06:40:46Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > Pointing at things and the dog looks at is a hard concept to learn but once they know it, it is a curse. For owners of sight hounds there is a sport called [lure coursing](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lure_coursing) where they [chase a lure](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVTTWJMd50I) on a motor driven string. The string is laid out in a circuit 200 to 600 yards long guided by pulleys and there are several changes in direction to simulate a hare’s running. Most people get to watch the other dogs run but we never could because our guys would watch too, figure out the course, and take a shortcut to be waiting where the lure will be in a few seconds. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2022, 7:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-praise-of-pooches-fun-dog-trivia/939767/70 "2022-12-13T07:44:36Z")
Bayliss is an unknown breed. He came to me if as by magic. He looks mostly shepherdish. And he’s definitely got the shepherd eye. He can, does herd, anything but cats. He’s always watching other things going on as well. It’s uncanny. He always sees. I think there’s a healthy dose of sighthound in him. He rarely chases tho’. Had a run in with a squirrel, once or twice. And like your dogs he figures things out. The squirrel took him serious after he found out Bayliss would be at the trunk of the 3rd tree when he jumped off to go up another tree. So now he just chatters rudely as we pass buy his home tree. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2022, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-praise-of-pooches-fun-dog-trivia/939767/71 "2022-12-13T18:02:12Z")
> [@DesertDog](#): > > For owners of sight hounds there is a sport called [lure coursing](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lure_coursing) where they [chase a lure](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVTTWJMd50I) on a motor driven string. The string is laid out in a circuit 200 to 600 yards long guided by pulleys and there are several changes in direction to simulate a hare’s running… That looks like fun. How do they get the lure to change direction? ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2022, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-praise-of-pooches-fun-dog-trivia/939767/72 "2022-12-13T18:24:57Z")
It’s on a tight string in a loop with [pulleys](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hY3btEuUzHE&t=40s) changing the direction. [Here](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/cca8a7_21e3f1e17cb244df9cc57c28482b53cc~mv2.png/v1/fill/w_1110,h_624,al_c,q_90,usm_0.66_1.00_0.01,enc_auto/cca8a7_21e3f1e17cb244df9cc57c28482b53cc~mv2.png) and [here](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/cca8a7_9a6609bdc41d4032b4e15d25a6e09e26~mv2.png/v1/fill/w_1110,h_624,al_c,q_90,usm_0.66_1.00_0.01,enc_auto/cca8a7_9a6609bdc41d4032b4e15d25a6e09e26~mv2.png) are the two courses used in the Desert Fun Bunch’s trials a couple weeks ago. [Here](https://www.asfa.org/ASFABeginnersGuide06-03.pdf) is more than you could possibly want to know about the sport with [ASFA](https://www.asfa.org/index.html)’s\* beginner’s guide. It started in San Diego in the 1970s and the [Desert Fun Bunch](https://www.desertfunbunch.org/) here in Arizona was second. [AKC](https://www.akc.org/sports/coursing/lure-coursing/) also has lure coursing at a few of its trials. \*American Sighthound Field Association. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2022, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-praise-of-pooches-fun-dog-trivia/939767/73 "2022-12-13T20:34:23Z")
Ah, thanks. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-praise-of-pooches-fun-dog-trivia/939767.md?page=3)