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Cat Warren

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Born

Eugene, The United States

Website

http://catwarren.com

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Genre

Memoir, Science, Nonfiction

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What the Dog Knows: Scent, Science, and the Amazing Ways Dogs Perceive the World (Touchstone) is Cat Warren's first single-authored book. It became a NYT bestseller and won several awards, including being long listed for a PEN/E.O, Wilson Literary Science Writing award. A young readers edition of What the Dog Knows was published by Simon & Schuster for Young Readers in October 2019, and the paperback of that book came out in October of 2020. Cat Warren is a professor at North Carolina State University, where she teaches science journalism, editing, and reporting courses. She lives with her husband, David, and their current German shepherd, Rev, in Durham, North Carolina. ...more

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All the Dog Things

Dearest Blog Readers:

A lot has happened in the past two or three years. Some wonderful, some a little sad, and some a combination of all that. But I’m going to concentrate on two wonderful things in the order that they occur to me.

First, Rev. We have a new German shepherd pup in the house. He’s nine months old now, and a lot of work. And a lot of pleasure. Here are some pictures of him from young

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	What the Dog Knows: The Science and Wonder of Working Dogs 3.98 avg rating — 1,857 ratings — published 2013 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bark!: The Science of Helping Your Anxious, Fearful, or Reactive Dog by Zazie Todd, Cat Warren (Goodreads Author) (foreword) 3.87 avg rating — 114 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Healing Visions by Randall Brown (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Meg Boscov (Photographer), Roberta Allen (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.72 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 2023 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Reading Women's Lives by Ashley Simons-Rudolph (Editor), Cat Warren (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Perros detectores de cadáveres. Trabajo y adiestramiento by Cat Warren (Goodreads Author), Mónica Rubio Fernández (Translator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	(What the Dog Knows: The Science and Wonder of Working Dogs) [By: Warren, Cat] [Oct, 2013] by Cat Warren (Goodreads Author), Unknown Author 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“I’ve grown more comfortable working with the dead. With parts of them, really. A few teeth, a vertebra, a piece of carpet that lay underneath a body for awhile. One of my German shepherd’s standard training materials is dirt harvested from sites where decomposing bodies rested. Crack open a Mason jar filled with that dirt, and all I smell is North Carolina woods—musky darkness with a hint of mildewed alder leaves. Solo smells the departed.”
― Cat Warren, What the Dog Knows: The Science and Wonder of Working Dogs

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“The army and SwRI researchers, ever optimistic and open-minded, had already been there and tried that. Cats didn’t care to communicate with the researchers about whether bombs were close by. “Cats were excluded from the final programs because of their demonstrated refusal to cooperate consistently in joint ventures with man.”
― Cat Warren, What the Dog Knows: The Science and Wonder of Working Dogs

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“There's no shortcut to reliability except constant diligent training.”
― Cat Warren, What the Dog Knows: The Science and Wonder of Working Dogs

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“There are seventy-five perfumes, which it is very necessary that a criminal expert should be able to distinguish from each other, and cases have more than once within my own experience depended upon their prompt recognition.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle

tags: dogs, science, smell

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