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436. Forget Everything You Know About Your Dog

Freakonomics Radio

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Dogs Are a Lifelong Learner, Right?

Dogs are intuitive anthropologists, that they pay attention to us and continue to do so even after the novelty wears off. What counts is ordinary for them might be different than what counts is ordinary for us. Every time the dog comes outside, right? It's a totally rewritten scene. All sorts of things have happened that have left sort of smell traces. He garbage has been deposited. Barometric pressure actually leads to an olfactory difference in the air. Ah, really? Well, have you ever gone outside before a thunderstorm?...

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