Grr, Sniff, Arf

Out of the last few articles we have read, I found Grr, Sniff, Arf by Cathleen Shine to be the most interesting to me. What first caught my attention was the part about the rose. To most people, it is a beautiful flower with a great scent while to dogs, if roses were to disappear all of a sudden, it would not make a difference to them unless it had the scent of urine. I had never realized that the scent of urine determined time to them. I did not know that the types of noses on dogs had such an impact of their vision. It made more sense that the dogs with smaller noses tend to be the small lap dogs which focus on what is right in front of them while dogs with larger noses have more of a panoramic view. Their senses are so much greater than a human's, with having three-hundred million receptor sites compared to six million. I also found it interesting how dogs pay attention to the very small amount of time in between a human's blink and our facial expressions. I work at a kennel so I spend all of my time around dogs, and I also have two at home. After reading this article I've noticed how much they respond to my facial expressions and my movements. Overall, I found this article to be enjoyable and informative.

Katie C.