Hearing becomes a great asset on the rare occasions when I run away from Betty and Bob and they scream my name looking for me. I have more than 18 muscles in my ears, which make my ears very mobile (Gleeson). Because of this I can tilt them towards the sound. I can perceive frequencies twice as well as humans and distinguish sounds up to four times better than humans (Gleeson). In the distance I hear a man shouting about the hot dogs he is selling. He's about 80 feet away, so we have to walk enough to be only 20 feet away from him so my owners can hear him. Not only can I hear the man advertising his hot dogs, but I can also smell the hot dogs. Smell is the most developed sense and a large part of my brain is dedicated to it (Peter). I have 220 million olfactory receptors, while Bob and Betty only have 5 million (“Health”). Not only that, but my nasal passages are sensitive to odors (“Mammal Senses” 120). On another note, not only can we dogs smell food, but male dogs can smell when a female dog is in heat. The vomeronasal organ is responsible for picking up the chemical stimuli encountered when females are in heat (Foggle 49). I can't wait to get to the hot dog stand so I can hopefully eat some hot
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