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In recent years, a growing body of research has affirmed that dogs can smell when humans are stressed. A new study shows how it affects them. As many dog owners can attest, our stress is contagious.

Dogs are capable of using their nose for many tasks: hunting, retrieval, and finding that cookie crumb you dropped beneath the couch. Now we can add “mussel sniffing” to the list. The California ...

Dogs can smell human stress — and it alters their own behavior, reveals new research. Our four-legged friends experience “emotional contagion” from the smell of human stress — leading them to make ...

Dogs can sniff out whether a human is stressed or relaxed, new research suggests, and that sensory feedback appears to influence canine emotions and choices. The dog doesn't even have to know the ...

Incredibly sensitive and intuitive, your dogs are always aware of how you’re feeling. If you’re a pet owner, you know that no matter what you’re doing, how busy you are, or how chaotic your life is, ...

If you read this blog on a regular basis you know that it is primarily designed to address what psychology research shows about behaviors across species. My view is that the field of “comparative ...

A dog's sense of smell is tens of thousands of times stronger than ours allowing them to read invisible stories in every corner of the house. From the sofa to the shoes, the home's scent tells the dog ...

This post was paid for by an advertiser. The Herald-Dispatch newsroom was not involved in its creation. Dogs live in a world that is guided by smell. What humans notice with their eyes, dogs often ...