Understanding The Canine Senses

The Pet Spa at Soap.Club, a leading supplier of premium quality natural pet shampoo, based out of Vaughan, Ontario, Canada, has introduced Canine Senses as the newest segment their 2017 Spring Pet Awareness Campaign. The campaign began March 2nd, will run until May 1, 2017, and is designed to champion pet owner awareness, all in an effort to augment, enhance, and improve the lives of our most loyal companions.

Jack Widmer, manager of the Pet Spa at Soap.Club, advises, “The key to figuring out why cats and dogs do what they do, is to understand natural canine and feline behaviour as developed before domestication. What many call ‘behavioural problems’ are actually just instinctive mannerisms, and proper communication between pet parents and their furry friends begins with understanding.”

To fully appreciate how a dog ‘sees’ the world one must first grasp that unlike humans which utilize sight as the primary means of identification, a dog interprets the world predominantly by smell. As a matter of fact, in some breeds sight comes in third place behind smelling and hearing in the dog’s arsenal of detective devises.

A dog’s brain is specialized for identifying scents. The percentage of the dog’s brain that is devoted to analyzing smells is actually 40 times larger than that of a human. Humans have an average of 5 million scent receptors, whereas a dog has 125 to 300 million depending on the breed.

A canine`s olfactory abilities are critical to their social make-up. When a dog is identifying by scent, they are picking up more than just a smell, but an entire story. They can smell pheromone, which is not only found in urine and fecal, but also on the fur and skin. They can tell a lot about another dog or human including if they are male or female, what they have touched, where they have been, what they have eaten, if they have recently given birth, if they are ready to mate, as well as what mood they are in.

Researchers have begun utilizing the canine nose as a tool in detecting illnesses in human beings. These canine practitioners have an 85% success rate of detecting cancer and alerting doctors not only to which patients are afflicted, but the location on their bodies where cancer exists. Amazingly they call smell cancer ‘in situ’ (with-in the site of original origin -or at stage 0) resulting in early treatment and lives saved.

A dog smells in parts per trillion, and It’s been estimated that dogs can identify smells somewhere between 1,000 to 10,000 times better than their human best friends can. While a human may smell a meatloaf in the oven, a dog can smell each and every ingredient in the recipe individually. “We designed the proprietary formulation of The Pet Spa Hypoallergenic Pet Shampoo and Conditioner with this critical information in mind,” states Widmer. Commercial pet grooming products contain heavy, sickly-sweet perfumes which only mask odors and agitate a canine after bathing. Many pet owners have recognized the benefits of using a natural pet shampoo alternative “Our natural pet shampoo recipe contains no artificial scents and it is soapless and tearless. It is intended to leave your loyal companion clean and fresh -not smelly,” he says.

He continues, “A regular pet bathing regime is a good preventative measure to ensure an animal’s continual good health by removing foreign toxins that they can pick-up on their coat and fur, making it a logical addition to any Pet Health Management System.”

Those interested in learning more of the health benefits of natural hypoallergenic pet products can visit Soap.Club online. The Pet Spa natural dog shampoo is currently available on Amazon, where it has attracted a significant level of positive reviews from customers hailing its effectiveness.