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I was wondering, since dogs have such an acute sense of smell and are so attracted to smells we think are unpleasant, is it because our nose isnt as sophisticated and the smell should be a good one?
>> Anonymous
No, it's because dogs' noses can pick out different scents in something rather than smell it as a whole; we can't do that.

For example, while we smell beef stew cooking, the dog smells the carrots, onions, meat, salt, etc. differently.

Thus garbage, to a dog, is not a pile of nasty mixed scents, but a wonderful buffet of separate foods.
>> Anonymous
Also worth noting that since a dog's mouth is basically filled with antiseptic, it can handle eating a big pile of crap to get a few decent pieces of food, whereas humans would probably get sick.
>> Anonymous
Oh i forgot to say, thats my dog.
>> Anonymous
>>219857
Do you live in Australia, since bags are still allowed there?
Anyway... Dogs are not taught that certain smells are bad - a pile of shit or piss tells the dog the age, gender, health and sexy-time readiness. It's extremely useful. While all it tells us is EEEWWWW.
The part of their brain that processes smell is much larger than in our brain. However - a skunk smells bad for all of us. Good question you asked. Cute dog BTW. Female?

>>219866
I don't know about it being filled with antiseptic - the saliva has antiseptic qualities, but also germs. The stomach acid was "designed" by nature to kill the bacteria in rotting raw meat. However - rotting cooked meat has a different "set" of bacteria that the dog has not evolved into properly coping with, so that's why cooked rotting meat can be deadly for dogs, while raw meat can be tolerated (to an extent) - it is still not healthy though.