SEVILLE, Ohio — There are jumping dogs who can leap through a hoop. Diving dogs who will soar off a dock after a favorite toy. Those who fetch with ease, and those who know a long list of tricks.

A dog’s sniffer is their best, favorite, and most-used tool. In perfect conditions, your pup can scent things from up to 12 miles away. For some of us, it might seem like our dogs can smell someone’s ...

GILLETTE — Dogs from Wyoming, Montana, South Dakota, Iowa and more were at the Cam-plex Wyoming Center recently for the first American Kennel Club scent work trial held in Wyoming. Hosted by the ...

Nosework, also known as Scent Work, is a sport in which a dog fully relies on his own sense of smell, turning a dog’s favorite activity — using its nose — into a fun game. In training and in ...

Scent training could make pet dogs better behaved, suggests a study by Aberystwyth University academics published in Animals. The research suggests that pet dogs trained to detect smells have improved ...

FOR ABOUT A YEAR, Larry and I have been taking a scent work class. This class focuses on using the dogs' scenting abilities, hence the name. The dog's nose is its most powerful organ, with a sense of ...

Dogs experience the world through scent in a way that’s almost alien to humans. Their noses have up to 300 million receptors, compared to our five million. That makes their perception of odor ...

Editor's Note: Longtime F&S whitetail columnist Scott Bestul passed away on April 19th, after a long battle with cancer. In memory of him, we will be republishing some of the Bestul's best work. Today ...

A woman with long, curly brown hair wearing a yellow shirt cuddles a shiba inu dog. Source: Vitaly Gariev / Pexels She curls up in your old sweater for comfort while you’re at work and could find her ...