What to listen for: “We're such dumb visual monkeys. We can't process information any other way except for visuals; whereas the dogs have their brain structured around scent.” Dr. Lindsay Waldrop, a Chapman University fluid dynamicist whose dissertation explored how crabs sniff odor out of water, has spent recent years turning that expertise toward dogs. Our hosts, Robin Greubel and Stacy Barnett, chat all things scent with her in this episode of K9 Detection Collaborative. H

What to listen for: “Even if you don't give them a cookie, you don't play, the dog has been reinforced. [It’s] just the way their brain...

What to listen for: “That's the hard part. That paralysis that you can get into of being afraid to train something because it can make...