Super Nose

With a 100,000x the sniffing power of humans, some specially trained dogs can detect many forms of cancer including breast, ovarian, lung, colon and bladder cancers. It has long been established that dogs were able to sniff out a human about ready to have a seizure, now researchers are finding that various early stage cancers can be sniffed out as well. In Kyla Kings Grand Rapids Press article “Calling Dr. Dog,” she writes about this amazing canine ability. If you think you have a dog that has or could cultivate this talent please contact Dr. Wendy Smith of the Human Society Behavioral Specialist, Namiko Ota-Novesky at 616-453-8900 or email customerservice@hswestmi.org Even if you are not in Michigan I encourage you to contact these people; they may be able to help you locate programs in your part of the country.

Ok readers, many of you guessed what type of dog Molly is and the results are in from the Canine Heritage. The paperwork originally said the test is
determined to be around 87% accurate of higher for breeds in their
database so the results could have some inaccuracy. Too, if they don’t
have a specific breed type in their database, the DNA can be from a more
“ancient” breed that was part of the newer breed’s makeup.

With that said, Molly was determined to be the following:

No breeds noted in the “Primary” or “Secondary” categories, but 4 listed
in the “In the Mix” category.

In the Mix:
* Chow Chow
* Border Collie
* Collie
* Labrador Retriever

Interested in testing? http://www.canineheritage.com/

Molly’s test was purchased from www.CanineHeritage.com The cost was $119.95. The company has a over 100 breeds intheir database, and the information on the site says they will continue
to add more breeds.

It takes only a few days for the test kit to arrive after ordering, and
from the time you send in the sample (to a lab in California) until you
receive the certificate, the process is around 6-8 weeks. Our wait was
closer to 8 weeks due to the number of samples they received after
Christmas. The customer service rep I spoke with mentioned that they
sold a lot of tests as Christmas presents this year so they expected a
spike (and a little longer processing time) in January and February.