A dog could never tell you what she knows from the
smells of the world, but you know, watching her,
that you know
almost nothing.
—Mary Oliver.
A dog could never tell you what she knows from the
smells of the world, but you know, watching her,
that you know
almost nothing.
—Mary Oliver.
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From an online VCA animal hospital article:
Dogs devote lots of brain power to interpreting smells. They have more than 100 million sensory receptor sites in the nasal cavity compared to 6 million in people, and the area of the canine brain devoted to analyzing odors is about 40 times larger than the comparable part of the human brain.
https://vcahospitals.com/know-your-pet/how-dogs-use-smell-to-perceive-the-world#:~:text=Dogs%20devote%20lots%20of%20brain,part%20of%20the%20human%20brain.
Taking my dogs for walks, it is clear that the outing is all about the smells. They must look at us and just think that, regarding smells, we are dunces.
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