Dogs Checking Their Pee-Mails

Dogs have between 125 million and 300 million olfactory receptors in their nose, compared to you and I, because we've got about 400. So, when your dog is checking his/her pee-mails do you ever wonder about the shades, tones and variations of ‘messages’ they’re perceiving?

It’s been said that dogs get more information from smelling their pee-mails than a lefty gets from reading The Guardian or the Daily Mirror.

What fragrances do they pick up on? Are they bitter, sour, pungent, consistent but scarce, heavy but light or are they just smelling a whiffy fox’s perspiration? Or is all this just rolled into one so they can detect another dog’s panic, anxiety, distress, anger, fear, sadness, envy, excitement, happiness, or joy?

There’s no denying that dogs have an almost psychic-like ability to predict the future, to predict events by using their heightened senses to detect changes that humans cannot, such as a person's changing body chemistry before a seizure or subtle seismic sounds before an earthquake. Certainly, they can smell a rainstorm coming.

This ability to sense changes allows them to react to impending events.

So, I wonder if that’s what their doing when their smelling pee-mails; picking up information hidden from most of us, not only to detect emotions but also to predict the future