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Cats: The Future of Search and Rescue?


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Cats notoriously turn their noses up to many foods, but this ability to sniff out particular odors holds tremendous potential, according to new research that makes a case for training domestic cats as search and rescue animals.

Cats may even be superior than dogs in this role, since their genes indicate they have better olfactory discrimination power than dogs do, according to the new paper, published in the journal Applied Animal Behavior Science.

http://www.seeker.com/why-cats-could-make-skilled-search-and-rescue-animals-2277969871.html

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Do we really wants cats deciding if someone gets saved or not?  We'd have more luck letting the sadistic cats loose and waiting for when they find a victim that's in pain that they can amuse themselves with.

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'Training domestic cats'?! Good luck with that :lol:

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1 hour ago, Nonentity said:

Yeah I don't see any cat being eager to save their slaves. :P

Neither do I. :lol:

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Search and rescue cats is an interesting concept though, and the right cats, with the right temperament, could easily be trained.

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