Hi, I'm Georgiana, and I'm back with a new episode of the Speak English Now podcast,

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Okay, let's start. In the previous episode, we talked about how dogs understand our emotions and how they communicate without words.

Today, I want to continue that conversation, but from a different angle.

Instead of focusing on emotions, we're going to look at how dogs experience the world,

how they gather information,

and why they naturally look to humans for guidance.

Because dogs don't just feel with us.

They observe, analyze, and cooperate with us in ways that are easy to overlook.

And once you understand this, many everyday behaviors suddenly make sense.

So how dogs experience the world?

Humans experience the world? Humans experience the world mainly through sight.

Dogs don't.

For dogs, the most important sense is smell.

A dog's nose is not just stronger than ours. It works in a completely different

way. Dogs have millions more scent receptors than humans. And their brains are built to interpret smells with incredible precision. For them, smell is not just

information, it's context. Through smell, dogs can detects stress, fear, changes in the body, and even illness.

That's why some dogs can be trained to detect medical conditions, such as diabetes,

or even certain types of cancer.

This isn't logical intelligence in the human sense. It's sensory intelligence.

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