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.
Perhaps it is also why cats will lay with a person in a nursing home frequently when they are close to death.
Unless that’s an old wive’s tale.
Perhaps they smell the cancer or infection or whatnot spreading very quickly at that point.
Our dearly departed dog seemed to have this ability...long story. But, she stuck close to some people who didn’t particularly care about dogs....they ended up having prostate cancer
Or this?
Or a combo?
I tripped and fell on my dog’s leash when she ran very quickly. It was an outdoor leash; I got tangled up in it and fell. I scraped my knee. And she constantly wanted to lick my knee.
Even now weeks later she still sniffs at it.
I take her out on the porch in the afternoon and she just sits and smells the wind. She really loves it it’s amazing.
I don’t smell anything. LOL!
Animals are amazing creatures!
But I have read about people using animals to diagnose cancer. And it seems to be very promising.