Dogs can reliably smell when people experience acute stress. They do this by detecting subtle chemical changes in human sweat ...

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.

If your dog has ever put their paws right by your face, you may have noticed a strange phenomenon: Frito feet. That's right — many dog owners claim that their pups' paws smell suspiciously like the ...

If you read this blog on a regular basis you know that it is primarily designed to address what psychology research shows about behaviors across species. My view is that the field of “comparative ...

Dogs are famous for their incredible noses—but can they really detect cancer? Both countless real-life stories from dog owners and cutting-edge scientific research point to the same conclusion: the ...

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 ...