Dogs are great at detecting things that are hard for humans to smell. But we don’t always know which chemicals are responsible for the scents that our four-legged friends pick up. One group of ...

Dog owners Anthony Lan and his partner Elora Paule must have heard the terms “grave prognosis” and “consider euthanasia” from half a dozen veterinarians. Their dog Riley, a 7-year-old female German ...

Like many of you, I’m a longtime dog lover. But until this week I’d never heard of blastomycosis. That all changed after contact with multiple dog owners in the Montgomery area whose pets have been ...

Dogs’ keen sense of smell could be an advantage for sniffing out rare fungi. A study 1 reports that a wildlife detection dog outperformed a top human surveyor in a hunt for the critically endangered ...