Cats can smell I think up to 5000 times stronger than humans.
Some dogs it’s 100k!!!! Almost unfathomable.
I had a really bad bruise that scabbed up and at LEAST 5 weeks after it scabbed, my cat would sniff it and make this scrunched up sick face like he was gonna throw up.
There was nothing to smell. It was an old scab. I didn’t smell a thing. I guess he smelled healing still going on under the skin.
This could be VERY helpful to cancer patients and who knows who else. Likely detecting infections.
This will bring a whole new meaning to Lab results!
Don’t forget that cats and dogs are also predators. Being able to smell the sick and weak can really help them improve their hunting success.
Even after becoming domesticated, they probably still “know” who’s sick.
Dogs can sense all sorts of ills. A friend had a Belgian which could detect seizures well before anyone else could. She was a therapy dog and did this in a hospital once. Laid down in front of a patient in a wheel chair and wouldn’t move. The patient went into a grand mal and fortunately the nurses were right there.