While I laze below the Gulmohar tree in full bloom
When I am not chatting with my best friend Layla and you, I love writing down my thoughts 😍. My journal is yellow with blue stripes 📖 and its my greatest treasure (yet!) I named my journal the Bow Wow Journal to record all the WOW I see in the world 🌎
Let me introduce myself. I am KoKo Wooferjee, your local neighbourhood dog with light brown skin and patches of dark brown on my paws and belly. You can see my photo in the picture here. My best friend is Layla. She lives in my neighbourhood in this nice house on the main road. We have been friends since we were puppies! 🐶
Do you ever wonder if I can think or animals can think like my human friends 💭💭💭?
If you have a pet or come across an animal doing something that you don’t want them to, do you say, “Stop doing that. They are being so stupid. Don’t they think before acting?” 😖😖
The short answer is YES! Dogs, in fact most of the animal kingdom can think. They can react and process a whole lot of information and emotions like humans do.
For example, have you seen a dog sit on command? You say sit and the dog reacts to the word and performs the action of “sit". That is thinking in action. Some dogs have real jobs and they need to do a lot of thinking. Some of them are part of the police team – the K9 unit!
They work with police people and also part of security checks in fancy hotels and airports. I see them in action sometimes. It's so cool. They can sniff out drugs, bombs and farts I am told 😂. This means they need to assign a memory to each smell and remember that memory each time they smell something new.
We, dogs, devote lots of brain power to understand smells. We have more than 100 million sensory receptor sites in the nasal cavity compared to 6 million in people, and the area of the canine brain devoted to analyzing odors is about 40 times larger 😳 than that of the human brain. In fact, it has been estimated that dogs can smell anywhere from 1,000 to 10,000 times better than people.
For animals, with a single sniff, 🐽 noses interpret an entire story without words! Dogs emit amines and acids as the basis for chemical communication. The chemical aromas communicate what a dog likes to eat, and identify gender and mood. By simply smelling, I can determine if a new friend is male or female, happy or aggressive, healthy or ill.
We get a general idea about each other with a quick sniff, but get more detailed information by getting up close and personal. That is why we sniff private parts of each other! 🤩
I love sniffing on my walks. I can sniff a tree and find out if other dogs have peed on it recently. I smell every visitor’s pants so I know instantly if they have a pet like me at their home.
My friend Caramel works as a sniffer dog and she was recently a part of cancer research. She sniffed some people’s pees and was able to correctly identify 40 out of 41 people who had lung cancer!
So next time you see an animal sniff, let them. They are trying to figure out who you are!
Stay tuned for the next entry in The Bow Wow Journal By KoKo Wooferjee.
Licks n Kisses,
KoKo! 🐾
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