Spur doesn’t mean to be rude, but she can’t help herself.
While a stranger waits to be introduced, she is sniffing over here, over there, this way and that.
If you think this is a weird way to act, don’t. Spur is a coonhound, the same breed of animal intimately familiar to fans of the University of Tennessee Volunteers. With her ultra-sensitive sense of smell, she is born to sniff.
Eventually Spur, who lives at the Humane Educational Society of Chattanooga off of McCallie Avenue, comes to meet the stranger, her golden brown eyes taking on a glazed stare as she accepts some rubbing up and down her back.
“Like a typical hound, Spur loves to explore and sniff everything around,” says Chasity Garrett, animal enrichment officer at HES.