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A firsthand exploration of the extraordinary abilities and surprising, sometimes life-saving talents of "working dogs" - pups who can sniff out drugs, find explosives, even locate the dead - as told through the experiences of a journalist and her intrepid canine companion, which The New York Times calls "a fascinating, deeply reported journey into the ... amazing things dogs can do with their noses."There are thousands of working dogs all over the US and beyond with incredible abilities - they can find missing people, detect drugs and bombs, pinpoint unmarked graves of Civil War soldiers, or even find drowning victims more than two hundred feet below the surface of a lake. These abilities may seem magical or mysterious, but author Cat Warren shows the science, the rigorous training, and the skilled handling that underlie these creatures' amazing abilities.



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Cat Warren

Cat Warren is a professor at North Carolina State University, where she teaches science journalism, creative nonfiction, and editing courses. She lives with her husband, David, and her current cadaver dog in training, a German shepherd, Jaco, in Durham, North Carolina. Visit CatWarren.com.



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