Do Dogs Know When You are About to Get Sick?

This study shows that even humans can smell disease in other people; is that why some people hate hospital smell? Maybe it’s just selective memory at work making me think the dogs know when I’m about to get sick. The Scent of Disease Human Body Odor Contains an Early Chemosensory Cue of Sickness Observational studies…

100 Years of Breed “Improvement”

Everyone is free to copy this – in whole or in part – and slap it on their website without telling me about it. All I ask is that the work is properly attributed.  If you come across this work without it being attributed to me (in any language) it’s plagiarism. Please use the Feedback/Contact…

Chess for Dogs?

Viktor Korchnoi (b 1931) is my all-time favorite chess player; he’s had the longest and most productive career of any player in history.  He may be the greatest player never to become World champion. Achieving his grandmaster title in 1956, his current rating of 2519 places him as the 4th  ranked in his home country…