Dogs are capable of using their nose for many tasks: hunting, retrieval, and finding that cookie crumb you dropped beneath the couch. Now we can add “mussel sniffing” to the list. The California ...

Dogs have a powerful sense of smell, there's no doubt about that. While us humans stumble through life guided mostly by our eyes, our canine companions tend to walk through life with their noses, ...

In recent years, a growing body of research has affirmed that dogs can smell when humans are stressed. A new study shows how it affects them. As many dog owners can attest, our stress is contagious.

No matter how perfect your pooch is (and aren’t they all?) dogs often smell a bit, well, doggy. Typically, these aromas vary from dog to dog. However, if you’ve ever caught a whiff of your dog’s paws ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. It is no secret that dogs have an incredibly powerful sense of smell, ...

This post was paid for by an advertiser. The Herald-Dispatch newsroom was not involved in its creation. Dogs live in a world that is guided by smell. What humans notice with their eyes, dogs often ...

In a series of previous essays, I summarized the five major senses dogs use to navigate their social and nonsocial worlds either singly or by combining them into what ethologists call composite ...