One of the amazing qualities of dogs🐶 is their nose and ability to recognize and remember odors long after they have been exposed to the original odor💩.
A large part of the dog's brain is devoted to analyzing smells. A dog's ability to detect odors is said to be up to 10,000-100,000x higher than the average human's 🚶🏻♀️. It is also believed that dogs have more than 220 million olfactory receptors in their nasal cavity, while humans have about 5 million. This allows dogs to distinguish between 30,000 and 100,000 scents. This heightened sense gives dogs the ability to detect a large number of chemical compounds containing molecules that show only small differences between them. With its unique ability to detect a target odor among many odors and its ability to learn, the dog🦮is an integral part of military🪖, search and rescue🛟 operations around the world.
From a medical🚑 point of view, dogs can definitely find out remarkable things. Research confirms the ability of trained dogs🐕 to detect prostate cancer by sniffing human urine samples, detect low and high sugar levels🍬 in the blood🩸 of people with diabetes (thanks to a small change in smell that is imperceptible to humans) or recognize narcolepsy😴 thanks to a change in the smell of sweat.
If a woman is pregnant🤰🏻, hormonal changes in the body can theoretically change her natural body odor, which can be picked up by the dog. However, no scientific studies have yet been conducted to confirm whether dogs can really pick up the scent of a pregnant woman.
And what about your four-legged pets, did they behave differently during pregnancy?
Verra team💕