Three Retrievers Newsletter

Three Retrievers Newsletter

Chapter 40

What I don’t know, yet.

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James Branson
Oct 09, 2022
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Chapter 40

Things I don’t know yet

What is scent made of?

We know many of the components of scent, for the most part being Volatile Organic Compounds, or VOCs.  When a dog identifies a particular smell, we don’t know the exact makeup of the molecules he is smelling.  How can a dog smell cancer and bombs and tell one dog apart from another?  Each particular…

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