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Physicists Discover Universal "Wet-Dog Shake" Rule
Dog owners can sleep easy tonight because physicists have discovered how rapidly a wet dog should oscillate its body to dry its fur. Presumably, dogs already know. From the article: "Today we have an answer thanks to the pioneering work of Andrew Dickerson at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta and a few buddies. But more than that, their work generates an interesting new conundrum about the nature of shaken fur dynamics. Dickerson and co filmed a number of dogs shaking their fur and used the images to measure the period of oscillation of the dogs' skin. For a labrador retriever, this turns out to be 4.3 Hz."
Let's hope this doesn't catch on in Japan. We don't need Dog shaking machines to complement their dog washing machines.
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Leave it to a bunch of nerds to focus on wet dogs. I for one would rather focus on wet t-shirts: what is the period of oscillation of those boobs?
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This would be the complement to the Super Monkey Collider, no?
I can see the fnords!
Ok, FTFA, it seems that the researchers did a very simplistic model and then found some videos so that they can measure what the animals actually do and noticed that they did not fit their model. So, nothing to see here until someone really sits down and models the wet dog oscillations with accuracy and tell us what the optimal frequency is (so that we can teach our dog if it is not that good with drying of course!).
Nah, there are easier ways to get dry. My dog quickly moved from the "shake myself dry method" to the "the rug and furniture are my towel method".
She's found this to be truly superior although some preliminary research showing a combined "shake myself dry" followed by "the rug and furniture are my towel" method may be her best option.
When I told her to get off the couch she just grinned and said "I'm a bitch, deal with it."
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My dog, at three months old, has adopted that same method, only he looks at me and says, deal with it, I'm a 3 pound bastard so you just try and stop me. He then runs all around the house like a maniac another couple of times rubbing against everything made of fabric.... I think it's probably his favorite thing to do. He looks and acts like he's having more fun than a barrel of monkeys. I don't think I could stop him with anything less than a .45.
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Now that they have solved this pressing problem, the researchers have moved on to filling out grant application for their next project: the Large Doberman Collider.
> Please tell me it wasn't taxpayer money
They borrowed against their igNobel winnings.
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I read that at first as "...us in the adult entertainment industry...".
Must be a particularily (weird) subset of that industry for shaking wet dogs...
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My question was never "how does a dog shake so as to dry his fur?" but rather "WHY must my dog walk up next to me immediately before doing so?"