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436. Forget Everything You Know About Your Dog

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Dogs Smell Like a Rose to a Dog

The sense of smell is to a dog as blank is to a human vision. They have this really dedicated instrument their nose. The area in the back of their nose, the olfactory epithelium, that has the cells that translate this odor molecule into experience of smelling something. It's probably wrong headed for me to try to translate it in terms of they smell a hundred times better than we do. But we do know, in some cases, they can smell many, many more minute particles of an odorant than we can. Imagine smells every minute visual detail. That might be the experience of a rose to a dog....

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