Medical R & D dept. tilts head.
My father died of leukemia last Thursday and his cat starting acting strangely near the end. She’s not the first cat I have known to do this.
I did get to tell him that Trump won which made him happy.
It’s not just animals, there’s a Scottish woman who can smell cancer, Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s.
https://greatergood.com/blogs/news/joy-smell
Her “powers” have been proved in blind tests.
I can tell you personally it does. It smells like real bad BO under your arms even if you shower well. Just recently went through this with my wife. Both of us were trying to figure out why this was happening despite what she did to get rid of it. Not long after she was diagnosed and then we realized the connection. And it is strong, like repulsive strong under the arms and from other pores.
Cats can do this too, that is why we have Cat scans.
the problem is that they are hard to train and still only work when and if they feel like it
I think it's an accepted thing in nursing circles.
If you sleep with or get close to your spouse and they develop an unusual strong odor they cannot get rid of go get screened for cancer. Knowing what I know now about that smell we could have caught it two months sooner.
It’s not just a more sensitive sense of smell, it is a much more developed olfactory cortex. Our eyes aren’t much more sensitive than a dogs, but our extensive visual cortex processes that information and a simple glance tells us an entire story about what is happening, beyond their understanding. Dogs do the same thing with smell, but instead of just rods and cones, they have an astronomical number of building blocks to work with.