>> if you are a dog owner or lover, this routine will look familiar to you. circle, circle, circle, spiny dance your dog does before getting down to business. susan calls this squaring off to bunt when poppy does it. you know the move. you know what it means. if you tube is a guide, a thing people like to document abut their dogs. it is funny. probably somebody out there in a snowstorm with a plastic bag in one hand and camera in the other, giving this display on tape. a an explanation for why your dog does that just before going to the bathroom. turns out it is maybe not just for show. a team of scientists out of the czech republic in germany discovered that dogs have a directional tendency. results of a two year long study of 70 dogs, logging 2,000 owe occasions requiring plastic baggies and fire hydrants. their findings published in the journal "frontiers in zoology." they found that due to dog's extraordinary homing abilities,