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A domestic cat can smell with roughly 200 million smell-sensitive receptors (humans have 5 million). A domestic dog can range from as low, in comparison, as 125 million to as high as 220 million depending on the breed. Scenthounds receptors are obviously on the higher end of the scale. On an average the cat can smell better than the dog but the specific winner goes to the Dog breed of Bloodhound, which can have as many as 300 million. This makes them a clear winner in breed but not in genus.
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∙ 8y agoI read a felinology study years ago (wish I had a link to it) that explained that it's not so much a question of who has a stronger sense of smell but the effectiveness of the sense of smell. Cats have a proportionately larger part of their brain devoted to processing scent than dogs have. They can determine a vast data bank of information from scent. So according to this study, cats smell more "effectively" than dogs do--they have an extremely sensitive sense of smell that can analyze and determine more information from what they're smelling than a dog can.
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∙ 12y agoYes. It's a little difficult to quantify these things, but estimates are that a dog's sense of smell is a hundred thousand to a million times better than a human's, and a cat's sense of smell is 10-20 times as acute as a human's.
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∙ 12y agothey have their sense of smell 14 times better than humans.
they can detect stuff and they can help you find things if they are trained.
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∙ 13y agoDogs have a better sense of smell than cats. However, cats have a much better sense of hearing.
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∙ 11y agoThey have way more olfactory receptors than we do.
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What special senses do dogs have?
dogs don't loke the differernt smell of the new bed. Now, if you go on vaction and the dog is smart, the dog will be polite and sleep on his new bed. But when he gets home, he knows he can sleep wherever he wants.
Why is DNA of cats and dogs more similar than DNA of cats and hamsters?
Cats and dogs have a common ancestor that is more recent than the common ancestor of cats and hamsters.
Classify the 5 main vertebrates using visible external characteristic features only?
Highly cephalized well developed sense organs and brain endoskeleton an animal with back bone... birds, squirrel, dogs, cats, etc.
What has hands but no fingers?
dogs and cats and animals
What are the examples of organism that reproduce sexually?
Most flowering plants, most insects, almost all fish and all mammals (including humans, dogs, cats, chimps, etc.)
Who has the better sense of smell dogs or cats?
I believe some tracking dogs and hounds have the keenest sense of smell.
Do cats have better eyesight than dogs?
No, not as a rule. Dogs rely on the sense of smell and do not hunt by sight primarily, as do cats.
Are there more wild cats then pet cats?
Yes wild cats are more common.
What Animals that have strong sense of smell?
cats and dogs
Who has the better sense of smell?
dogs
What has a better sense of smell a dog or cat?
To me, I think that dogs have a better sense of smell. That's why policemen use dogs to track criminals.
Did velociraptors have good sense of smell?
According to scientists, they did. In fact, they were thought to have an even better sense of smell than dogs, and dogs' sense of smell if around 60 times better than a person's.
Which has better hearing dog or a cat?
Cats have better hearing than dogs as cats can rotate their ears 180 degrees.
Is the sense of smell better in small dogs or large dogs?
I can't say. All dogs have a very good sense of smell, big or small. Springer Spaniels (Small to medium sized dogs) and Bloodhounds (Large dogs) both have a good sense of smell.
Who has a stronger sense of smell humans cats or dogs?
Dogs have the best noses, followed by cats. Humans occupy a distant 3rd place in the "by a nose" category.
Are dogs better than humans?
There sense of smell is definitely better than ours
Is it true or false that a dogs sense of smell is about 20000 times better than a humans?
yes it is true dogs smell much better than humans
