SEVILLE, Ohio — There are jumping dogs who can leap through a hoop. Diving dogs who will soar off a dock after a favorite toy. Those who fetch with ease, and those who know a long list of tricks.

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 ...

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

According to a recent study, dogs trained to detect scent may be able to identify significantly lower concentrations of odour molecules than has previously been documented. A study carried out by the ...

A recent study published in Prion investigated whether trained scent-detection dogs could be used for chronic wasting disease (CWD) surveillance. CWD is a fatal transmissible spongiform encephalopathy ...

Foil-wrapped eggs will be hunted and gobbled this weekend as kids search for the spoils hidden by the Easter bunny. And in northwestern B.C., some lucky dogs got to do the same. Hana Niemi, a dog ...

A recent study found that dogs can detect odor molecules much lower than what advanced machines can detect. The research highlights dogs' fantastic sense of smell, revealing their ability to detect ...

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 ...

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 ...