Posted on 10/01/2016 11:40:09 PM PDT by nickcarraway
In the late 1980s in the UK, a border collie-Doberman mix began paying extreme attention to a mole on his owner’s left thigh. The 44-year-old woman noticed that the dog would sniff there for minutes on end, trying to bite it off whenever she wore shorts.
The dog’s fixation wasn’t random. What the dog was smelling wasn’t just the mole, but the melanoma causing it — and its subsequent removal might just have saved the woman’s life.
In this new book, author Horowitz shows how canines, whose sense of smell is anywhere between 10,000 and 100,000 times more acute than ours, might turn out to be an essential weapon in the fight against cancer and other diseases.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
// But, it is impossible to actually test cats vs. dogs since they are both smart enough to disregard really faint smells when not in a life threatening situation. //
Pfffft.
No self respecting cat would sit for that!
Here’s what would happen. The cats would draw spacemen, monsters, dinosaurs, and detailed schemata for taking over the world, globalists notwithstanding, on test paper instead of answering the questions like the nice obedient over-achieving all A+ principal’s list dogs.
Jk! I’ll check into the book - Cat Sense, Bradshaw, noted.
Aroma therapy.
I've heard that cats have a similar ability to detect life-threatening aliments. They just don't give a crap. They prefer that you are dead and so make no efforts to warn you. :)
Hair it is!
Uh, no.
Food grade silicone mold.
:)
Or a cat scan...
If you just pour the mould making substance into a container and then manage to make it smell like dog-ass they will probably happily jam their noses into it :-)
Uh, yeah...no.
:D
For cats it is a game, for dogs, the pack instinct, and mutual protection, they want to fix something. They care about their people that are part of the pack. A cat might like you as an individual, but that is a separate issue.
Ah, the dogtor is in.
My Bud’s wiser than my Dr.
This has been around for a long time. About 10 years ago I saw a demonstration where patients with cancer would lie on the floor, and a dog (maybe more than one — can’t recall) would walk around them sniffing. They identified cancer every time.
You must be referring to a Tuxedo cat, which, as everyone knows, is 200% smarter than any other cat.
http://cats.about.com/od/coatcolorpatternstypes/tp/Tuxedo-Facts.htm
“Crazy thing. I have a BRUTAL scab from falling down cement stairs. Months old and healed. Cat sniffs it and makes a face like he’s smelled death”
You should get to a Dermatologist fast and have him take a good look at it.
I had a scar on my shin that I got when I crashed my bike.Well I had that scar for so long that I paid no attention to it.
Following a visit to my dermatologist He discovered that had a skin cancer there.Following a biopsy they did minor surgery on that scar and cut out tissue about the depth of a half dollar coin.Widthwise it was just about the same.
I’d hate to think what would have happened if that cancer went any deeper.
So my advise is get it checked soon.
“100,000 at its peak? That’s almost unfathomable.
They should give a real life example of such an extreme difference.”
I had a little bulldog mix who, upon finding the most disgusting, decaying, goopy pile of putrid rotting stink imaginable, would, in an almost erotic manner, press her face into it, rubbing it in until she was pulled away. I figure this stuff smells SO GOOD that it puts our inferior olfactory systems into major overload causing us to gag and flee. A dog would have to have an unfathomable sense of smell to find the good in some of the things she found to roll in.
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