Scientists may have revealed a way to improve your dogs behavior—by training them to pick up scents. The research from Aberystwyth University, based in Wales in the United Kingdom, found that dogs ...

A woman with long, curly brown hair wearing a yellow shirt cuddles a shiba inu dog. Source: Vitaly Gariev / Pexels She curls up in your old sweater for comfort while you’re at work and could find her ...

Nosework, also known as Scent Work, is a sport in which a dog fully relies on his own sense of smell, turning a dog’s favorite activity — using its nose — into a fun game. In training and in ...

A dog’s nose is very sensitive. According to Sharon Ward, a training officer with Pacific Crest Search Dogs, while humans have 10 million receptors for odor, dogs have 250 million. “We, for example, ...

WENATCHEE – One by one, 17 dogs were led up a manicured grass lawn to a live rattlesnake, and one by one, their experience was a shocking one. After each got a good whiff of the snake enclosed in a ...

It is no secret that dogs have an incredibly powerful sense of smell, which is why one German shepherd owner decided to put it to the test. Spoiler alert: he passes with flying colors. Eventually, ...

Skeletal remains were found earlier this month on the Roxy Ann Peak Trails in Jackson county. The sheriff’s office brought in a specially trained group of canines known as Human Remains Detection Dogs ...