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Your Dog’s Nose Knows When You Are Stressed Out

By Keith Connors

Your Dog’s Nose Knows When You Are Stressed Out. When you’re happy, they’re happy. When you’re tired, they’re tired. When you’re stressed out, they know. Wait, what? New study in PLOS ONE says our pups may “smell” when we get stressed out. Is that why they make such great emotional support and therapy animals? Only your dog’s nose knows!

  • They Did A Dog Sniffer Sample

    All you need is 4 dogs and 36 humans. Scientists exposed the dogs to samples from stressed out human sweat and breath. Ewww. And others. The dogs were trained to respond to the stressed out samples. The 4 tested pups were almost perfect at sniffing out the stressed sample. Their sniff rate was at an amazing 93.8 percent accuracy rate. When it comes to our pups, the nose knows.

  • How Does This Work Again

    All human bodies are changed during stressful or fearful events. Yep, it even changes the smell of our breath and sweat. Our dogs are super sniffers! Our pups have more than 220 million olfactory receptors. Receptors bind with smell molecules and communicate all that  info to the brain. While you and me (mere humans) have just 50 million olfsctory receptors. You know that’s why our dogs are also pretty darn good at sniffing out drugs, bombs, blood sugar changes, corpses, noxious weeds, COVID-19 and nearly anything else with an odor. That’s everything. Source: Smithsonian

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