Paw preference tests can be fun for your pets
Pets-Southpaws
In this Tuesday, Aug. 21, 2012 photo, Gil Moreno, manager at Los Angeles County Animal Care Control Carson Shelter, puts a protein gel on the dog's nose to perform a right-handed-left-handed test with unnamed Chihuahua dogs in Gardena, Calif. The dogs seemed baffled by the test. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
Christina Thompson
In this Tuesday, Aug. 21, 2012 photo, Christina Thompson, a Registered Veterinarian Technician at Los Angeles County Animal Care Control Carson Shelter, performs a right-handed-left-handed test with a Chihuahua dog who kept using his dominant right paw to play with a toy despite his broken leg in Gardena, Calif. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
Gacey Meza
In this Tuesday, Aug. 21, 2012 photo, Gacey Meza, Animal Care Attendant at Los Angeles County Animal Care Control Carson Shelter performs a right-handed-left-handed test with "Ni Hao," in Gardena, Calif. When a cat really wants something, tests show it uses its dominant paw, but when it's just fooling around, it may use either or both. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
Gil Moreno, Christina Thompson
In this Tuesday, Aug. 21, 2012 photo, Gil Moreno, manager, left, and Christina Thompson, a Registered Veterinarian Technician at the Los Angeles County Animal Care Control Carson Shelter, perform a right-handed-left-handed test with a Chihuahua in Gardena, Calif. This Chihuahua defies the odds by using his broken leg to bat a ball. Experts say that pets with injured limbs use the other uninjured leg to compensate. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
Pets-Southpaws
In this Tuesday, Aug. 21, 2012 photo, a cat lifts his left leg during a right-handed-left-handed test performed at the Los Angeles County Animal Care Control Carson Shelter in Gardena, Calif. A 1991 study at Ataturk University in Turkey showed 50 percent of cats were right-pawed, 40 percent were left-pawed and 10 percent were ambidextrous. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
Pets-Southpaws
In this Tuesday, Aug. 21, 2012 photo, a Chihuahua shows frustration after the staff at the Los Angeles County Animal Care Control Carson Shelter placed a treat under a bowl to determine paw preference in Gardena, Calif. Results depend on which paw the dog uses to move the bowl. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
Gil Moreno
In this Tuesday, Aug. 21, 2012 photo, Gil Moreno, manager at Los Angeles County Animal Care Control Carson Shelter, prepares paw preference test with unnamed Chihuahua dogs in Gardena, Calif. A 2006 study from the University of Manchester in England showed dogs were split half-and-half. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
Gil Moreno
In this Tuesday, Aug. 21, 2012 photo, Gil Moreno, manager at Los Angeles County Animal Care Control Carson Shelter, performs a paw preference test with two unnamed Chihuahua dogs in Gardena, Calif. Results will be determined by which paws the dogs use to remove a sticky substance that Moreno put on their noses. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
Ni Hao
In this Tuesday, Aug. 21, 2012 photo, "Ni Hao," the stowaway kitten from Shanghai uses his left leg to exit his cage to approach a toy at the Los Angeles County Animal Care Control Carson Shelter in Gardena, Calif. When a cat really wants something, tests show it uses its dominant paw, but when it's just fooling around, it may use either or both. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
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