Doggie timing!

How do dogs always manage to time things so perfectly? Or rather imperfectly? For example, Goldie loves body cream! Yes I do mean the kind of moisturizing cream that you rub into your body to keep the skin nice and young. You would be right in thinking this is not usually something that\'s edible but Goldie doesn\'t care about that little fact! I do admit it\'s my own fault because when I first brought him home he seemed to be itching a lot in his legs and under his tummy, so on the spur of the moment I got a tub of E45 cream and started smearing it on him. It lasted for about quarter of a minute before he\'d licked it all off again and in doing so became addicted to the taste of body cream. I\'ve never put it on him since but of course I do wear it myself and every day when I come out of the shower or bath, despite the fact that I vary the time each day as I don\'t have a set routine, he still manages to sneak into my room just as I\'m STARTING TO RUB THE CREAM INTO MY OWN LEGS! Out comes his tongue and he tries so hard to lick it off before I\'ve even started rubbing it in! The point is how does he manage to time it so exactly every day? Saffie has an even worse good timing habit! She loves to roll, usually quite inocuously, just for the joy of squirming on her back, but sometimes she chooses the most disgusting things to roll in! Horse manure, Cow dung, fox poo are hardly nice fragrances! And she always does this when the walk is about to be followed by something important. For example, I took her out once at 9.15 am for a quick walk before the guide dog trainer came to put Marilyn and Saffie through their paces. At 9.45 I was calling the dogs to return home and Saffie ran up absolutely covered in fox poo! my heart sank big time! why did she have to choose just that moment to do it? I tried my nest to get it off but she still stank when the trainer arrived!! Now this week she has done it again, rolling in yuk just before we were due to get the train to meet a friend for a day out! what do they have within them that gives them such a perfect/imperfect sense of timing?