Maria Goodavage: ...that dogs are being trained to sniff out COVID-19

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Business, Entrepreneurship

4.2 • 671 Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2020

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Did you know dogs are being trained to sniff out COVID-19? We didn't!

Joining us on this episode is New York Times bestselling author Maria Goodavage, who’s considered one of the foremost authorities on the training and service of working dogs.

Maria’s latest book focuses on the important work dogs are performing in the world of medicine. The book is called, Doctor Dogs: How Our Best Friends Are Becoming Our Best Medicine.

You can learn more about Maria's books by going to https://www.mariagoodavage.com.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Nobody Told Me.
0:13.2	I'm Laura Owens and I'm Jan Black.
0:15.6	We absolutely love dogs in our family.
0:19.2	They are such amazing, lovable characters, and they help us in so many
0:23.3	ways. Joining us on this episode is New York Times bestselling author Maria Godavage, who's
0:29.4	considered one of the world's foremost authorities on the training and service of working dogs.
0:34.8	And Maria's latest book focuses on the important work dogs are performing
0:38.8	in the world of medicine. The book is called Dr. Dogs, how our best friends are becoming our best
0:45.1	medicine. Maria, thank you so much for joining us. We've been really looking forward to talking
0:49.0	with you. Oh, I'm really happy to be here. I love talking about these amazing dogs. And, you know,
0:54.0	we've all been
0:55.0	familiar with dogs performing guide services for the blind, and we know they can be emotional
1:00.1	support animals as well. Now we're hearing that dogs can be trained to sniff out COVID-19. Tell us
1:07.0	more about that. Yeah, this is the most exciting thing. In my book, I just alluded to the fact that maybe one day dogs will be able to be trained
1:15.6	by virtue of their amazing noses to sniff out pandemics or epidemics before they become pandemics.
1:22.0	And I had no idea that just around the corner, they were going to be put to the test.
1:26.8	And the dog's noses are so
1:30.3	incredible. They sniff, they, one scientist I was working with, who works with dogs exclusively,
1:37.7	said, and I love this, they smell in color. Now, of course, they don't really smell in color,
1:42.8	but if their world of, their
1:45.7	olfactory world is as rich and vivid as our visual world. And so if we know how to get them to
1:52.0	recognize something, we know how to get them to tell us that they can smell it, then we have
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