Through The Nose By Frances Killea Summary

A dog and his Owner In the article Through the Nose, by Frances Killea, it discusses how dogs have the ability to smell more scents then humans. These smells that dogs detected are also able to determine certain traits or moods. Dog’s ability to smell beyond our ability helps humans, and for example when a human goes missing and humans cannot find them they might call in a searching hound. This searching hound due to its great senses can find a human. One reason a dog can smell better that humans is because of their 220 million olfactory receptors and humans only have 5 million. The dog’s sense from its nose also help it to comprehend its environment. For instant say a dog’s owner went missing in the woods, the owner’s dog could find him in the woods and in this article it discuss the background information on why this …show more content…
That can help a dog to learn of its surroundings and with repetitive exposure to a smell it can become easily recognizable to the dog. This is why the dog knows the owners scent because after many days of the owner caring for him and being at home, the dog has picked up a unique smell that comes from his owner, and because the dog repetitively smells the owners smells he knows to associate his owner with that certain smell. When discussing this the author says, “ A dog sniffs, breathing in a lot of different scents, which are interpreted by its brain as information about the environment…and with training- repeated exposure to a certain scent in order to make it easily recognizable…” (Killea par. 7). To explain how a dog is able to traces down its owner, a chain a reaction causes it to be possible. Without the dog’s ability to smell beyond a human’s ability, a dog would not be able to trace down that owner, but since it can associate smells to people or things the dogs can trace a person