{"id":22264,"date":"2015-08-18T09:57:58","date_gmt":"2015-08-18T16:57:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=22264"},"modified":"2015-08-18T09:57:58","modified_gmt":"2015-08-18T16:57:58","slug":"the-science-of-dog-smells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/18\/the-science-of-dog-smells\/","title":{"rendered":"The science of dog smells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You know, I could happily have gone the rest of my life without knowing the words &#8220;putrescine&#8221; and &#8220;cadaverine&#8221; even existed &#8212; let alone that they are among my dogs&#8217; smell preferences.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/speaking-of-science\/wp\/2015\/06\/01\/the-science-of-wet-dog-smell\/\" target=\"_blank\">This article<\/a> focuses on why wet dogs stink. But if that doesn&#8217;t turn your stomach sufficiently you can use it to read up on cadaverine food preferences. Still holding down your breakfast? You can go on to the part about why they enjoy butt sniffing. I haven&#8217;t nerved myself up for that bit yet. (UPDATE: The butt video is actually pretty amusing and informative.)<\/p>\n<p>And still &#8230; we love them. And we live with them in our homes, cars, and even our beds and manage not to die of gross dog-borne illnesses.<\/p>\n<p>(H\/T jed)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know, I could happily have gone the rest of my life without knowing the words &#8220;putrescine&#8221; and &#8220;cadaverine&#8221; even existed &#8212; let alone that they are among my dogs&#8217; smell preferences. This article focuses on why wet dogs stink. But if that doesn&#8217;t turn your stomach sufficiently you can use it to read up on cadaverine food preferences. Still holding down your breakfast? You can go on to the part about why they enjoy butt sniffing. I haven&#8217;t nerved myself up for that bit yet. (UPDATE: The butt video is actually pretty amusing and informative.) And still &#8230; we&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/18\/the-science-of-dog-smells\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The science of dog smells<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dogs-and-cats","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}