I SPOKE WITH THE OWNER OF A LOCAL COMPANY THAT’S HELPING TRAIN AND PROVIDE COVID-19 SENT DETECTION DOGS. REALLY ANY SORT OF LARGE EVENT GATHERINGS SPORTING ARENAS WAYS CONVENTION CENTERS YOU KNOW ...

With up to 300 million scent receptors, dogs are among the best smell detectors in the animal world. The human nose, by comparison, contains only around 6 million scent receptors. Dog brains also ...

Dogs rely on scent in ways that still surprise researchers. They have up to 300 million olfactory receptors, compared to about 6 million in humans, and can detect smells 10,000 to 100,000 times more ...

Dogs have spent thousands of years adapting to human behavior, so it’s no surprise they sometimes notice changes people miss.

An interesting new medRxiv* preprint reveals that with careful training, the exquisite scent sensitivity of dogs may be exploited to rule out the presence of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in ...

At the Wingate Hotel in Gillette, WY, dogs of all ages took part in a scent training seminar, reported The Sheridan Press. Inside a room at the hotel, there were three rows of five cardboard boxes. In ...

What does it take to teach a dog scent detection? It all begins with shaping behavior and rewarding the exact moment your dog makes the right choice. In this training session, the dog learns to ...