Mass Social Club April 2019

"A firsthand exploration of the fascinating globe of “working dogs”—who try out missing persons, sniff for explosives inwards nation of war zones, together with locate long-dead remains..."

By Zazie Todd, PhD

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The Book Club pick for this calendar month is What the Dog Knows: Scent, Science, together with the Amazing Ways Dogs Perceive the World yesteryear Cat Warren.

From the dorsum cover,

"Cat Warren is a academy professor together with erstwhile journalist amongst an admittedly strange hobby: She together with her High German shepherd convey spent the terminal vii years searching for the dead. Solo is a cadaver dog. What started equally a agency to harness Solo’s unruly unloose energy together with enthusiasm shortly became a calling that introduced Warren to the hidden together with fascinating universe of working dogs, their handlers, together with their trainers. 

Solo has a fine olfactory organ together with knows how to role it, merely he’s entirely i of many thousands of working dogs all over the U.S. together with beyond. In What the Dog Knows, Warren uses her ongoing travel amongst Solo equally a agency to explore a captivating champaign that includes cadaver dogs, drug- together with bomb-detecting K9s, tracking together with apprehension dogs—even dogs who tin sack locate unmarked graves of Civil War soldiers together with assistance disclose drowning victims to a greater extent than than ii hundred feet below the surface of a lake. Working dogs’ abilities may appear magical or mysterious, merely Warren shows the multifaceted science, the rigorous training, together with the skilled treatment that underlie the amazing abilities of dogs who travel amongst their noses."

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Zazie Todd, PhD, is the writer of Wag: The Science of Making Your Dog Happy. She is the founder of the pop weblog , where she writes well-nigh everything from grooming methods to the human-canine relationship. She also writes a column for Psychology Today together with has received the prestigious Captain Haggerty Award for Best Training Article inwards 2017. Todd lives inwards Maple Ridge, BC, amongst her husband, i dog, together with ii cats.

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