How great is the sense of smell in dogs?

Answer 1

A dogs sense of smell is fantastic

Answer 2

Dogs have 25 more olfactory (which is smell) detectors then humans do: In turn this means that they can sense odors at 100 million times lower then we do. Think about it this way: we use dogs to sniff out explosives and drugs, find missing kids, & even sniff out & locate alive & dead people in debris. Currently researchers are trying to use the canines sense of smell in trying to find diseases in early detection. People have had dogs that have been very insistant on smelling a certain part of their body & not wanting to stop, later they have found out they have a cancer in that area or something. Dogs are used to warn people when they are about to have a seizure, heart attacks & low blood sugar attacks.

Answer 3

Hi, Dogs sense of smell if so much better then our own it really hard to conceive, but a dog can smell urine at the rate of one drop in a gallon of water. Thats how mother dogs know their own babies, male dogs travel miles to find a female in heat and why mother dogs eat the placenta's it's a throw back from being in the wild to get rid of the smell of birth so other animals won't follow the smell back to their nest and kill their young.

Answer 4

Pretty intense. Different breeds have a greater capacity such as the hunter types, ie. Blood hounds, Beagles, and that sort, they depend on their sense of smell to hunt their quarry. But as a rule most all dog breeds have a sense of smell that is pretty incredible.

Answer 5

One million times better than humans.The leading sense

Answer 6

If it is so good why do they stick their noses in each others bums.

Answer 7

i think its 100 times better than human.....

Answer 8

ask it nicely