I have never wondered what the difference is between dog urine and human urine. But somehow, people seem to ask this question a lot as it comes up at the top of Google question/answers. Cuteness.com wants to answer this. Millie was pleased as the site had videos of dogs running in their first snow fall. Here's what they say:
The only difference between dog urine and human urine is that they come out of differing species.... Dog urine contains water, bacteria, ammonia, uric acid and dog hormones. It's these hormones that are different from human urine. Any dog nose can smell these hormones to know the sex, health and even the breed of the dog that urinated. When the dog urine dries, it does so in tiny crystals that can release their smelly messages when they are moistened again from humidity or being sniffed through a dog's wet nose.
How did we get the expression 'pee' - that's the command I use for Millie when she is sent outside. It is 18th century euphemistic use of the initial letter of piss.
Shakespeare was among the first to use the letter "P" to stand in for the word "piss," in Twelfth Night. The letter sound, written since at least 1880 as "pee," has been in use ever since.
And piss? This from the New Republic: "To piss derives ultimately from the Vulgar Latin verb pissiare. The proper Latin verb meaning to urinate was mingere, which gives us medical words like micturition. Via the medieval French verb pissier (12th century), to piss crops up in many medieval English texts, including Chaucer."
And if one wants to emphasize to Millie that she really is to go pee, then it is "go pee-pee". This is considered a reduplicated form of pee. And French and German have these versions, too - e.g. pipi in French.
And here's our joke on the topic: When you really have to pee, you're Russian to the bathroom, when you walk out, you're Finnish, so what are you while you're inside?
European!
This is the Japanese Garden display at the Chrysanthemum Festival.
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