Dogs rely on scent in ways that still surprise researchers. They have up to 300 million olfactory receptors, compared to ...

Dogs' sniffing skills may soon get a boost, thanks to a groundbreaking discovery by animal behavior experts in the United Kingdom. Since detection dogs use their exceptional sense of smell to sniff ...

As the owner of a yellow lab named Gus, author Maria Goodavage has had many occasions to bathe her pooch when he rolls around in smelly muck at the park. Nevertheless, her appreciation for his keen ...

“Finding them in the dense rainforest is no small task,” the International Rhino Foundation said of its mission in Indonesia The International Rhino Foundation teamed up with sniffer dogs from Working ...

Chemist Lauryn DeGreeff is committed to making explosive and drug searching more effective and safer for detection dogs. In her latest research, DeGreeff put bombsniffing standards to the test, ...

There is new hope in the fight against a devastating cancer in dogs that is often deadly. Researchers at the Penn Vet Working Dog Center in South Philadelphia are training dogs to help detect ...

Dogs experience the world through scent in a way that’s almost alien to humans. Their noses have up to 300 million receptors, compared to our five million. That makes their perception of odor ...

A recent study found that not only can dogs detect our stress, but, in turn, our stress stresses out our dogs. Fortunately, service dog organizations can train dogs to channel those detection skills ...