Smellorama: Nose Games for Dogs

by Viviane Theby

How does your dog smell? Very well, as it happens!With up to 100 times as many olfactory receptors as humans, dogs use their sense of smell to ‘see’ and interpret their world, just as we do with our eyes. A dog’s keen sense of smell is helped by a wet nose which has a layer of mucus that absorbs some scent molecules more quickly, allowing even the faintest scent to be detected and followed. And it’s not just specialist hounds such as gun, drug and bomb detection dogs that have this amazing ability. All dogs love to sniff out new smells and messages - their very own ‘p-mail’! - Your faithful friend can be taught to find those lost car keys, tell you if your food contains minute traces of nuts, or even locate a missing person, and in such a way that these ‘nose games’ are great fun for both of you! How does a dog's nose work? • Hide & seek games for beginners • What is my dog telling me? • Which scent is that? • Following trails • More trailing challenges • Advanced exercises

80 pages, Paperback

First published May 15, 2010

Reviews

[Sabrina · Rating 4 out of 5]

Sehr gute Anregungen und Ideen, Aufbau gut beschrieben.

[TL Thomas · Rating 3 out of 5]

The best part for me was the explanations up front of what scent is, how dog's scent systems work, and other cool facts about scent. Once you get past the intro, there are step by step instructions for scent based training and exercises you can do with your dog. My main issue with these is there were huge jumps step to step - if you are a beginner, there is not enough info there to get you started as you kind of need to know the terms and basics to do the exercises. Still, there were some good scent games here I will make use of once we're farther along in our training.