C++ object creation and destruction

Good afternoon,

I was messing around with a class and the constructor and destructor but now i'm not sure what is going on and hopefully someone here can explain why this is happening.

I have a piece of code as follows:

Animal dog1 = Animal("Thor");
Animal *pDog2 = &Animal("Loki");
Animal *pDog3 = new Animal("New");

The class just has a constructor that prints that the constructor and/or destructor is being invoked with the name of the Animal. What i see in the output, however, is that pDog2 is being created but right after that it is being destroyed. I have no idea why since it is not going out of scope yet, right?

The output given is:

Constructor of Thor called. Constructor of Loki called. Destructor of Loki called. Constructor of New called.

Hopefully someone can help me explain this.

Best regards,

Bob