The Senses, Smell

People are visual and we live in a visual world, for us our dominant scent is sight.  Now for our canine companions it is a whole different story.  Dogs dominant scense is smell, with 40 x more scent receptors in their nasal cavities and with a more advanced section in there brain that deals with scent a whole new world is opem for them. Now try to understand why your furry friend wants to be close to you while you eat!

Imagine you have not eaten for 5 hours, now prepare your favorite food and leave it on the side and just walk past with out taking a bite!  do not expect our impulse control to be any different to that of a dogs, as we often have very little.

The Senses, Sight

Dogs contrary to popular belief do not see in black and white, rather they have trouble seeing different shades such as red and green.  Do not let that fool you though as they can detect the smallest of movements immediately.  In their natural habitat dogs would hunt at dawn and dusk where these skills would be at there optimum.

At close range though your dog may not be able to see as well, if you placed a treat in front of his face for example he may not be able to distinguish it from its background there for relying on his sence of smell to find it. You should note that when you are training your puppy or older dog for that matter that hand signals are just as important as spoken commands.

The Senses, Hearing

A dogs hearing is incredibly acute, because dogs ears are often large and moveable, they can detect not just where but how far away a sound is coming from.  Dogs hear sounds as much as 5 times further away then we do.  When a dog listens to other dogs barking and whining they are communicating and your dog can tell the size of the other dog through the pitch of his voice.

The Senses, Taste

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