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Can Dogs Detect Covid-19?

Can Dogs Detect Covid-19?

The sense of smell of dogs is very useful, they can have 100,000 times the smelling ability of humans and they can sniff out explosives or drugs. Therefore, these pooches are the closest friends of police officers. Scientists at France’s National Veterinary School have revealed that dogs are experts at sniffing out COVID-19, with an accuracy close to PCR tests.

In Dubai, specially trained police dogs were used to assist police to detect passengers who have SARS-CoV-2 arriving at Dubai International Airport. Similar research is underway at the University of Helsinki, Finland.

Can Dogs Detect Covid-19?

In the near future, it is likely that our four-legged friends will sniff out COVID-19 at airports to detect the SARS-CoV-2 virus among travelers. With the special study, sweet samples from the armpits of 335 people were tested by PCR and there are 109 people who were positive. Nine dogs were trained to sniff out signs of SARS-CoV-2 infection can indicate positive samples with an impressive sensitivity of 97%.

Of course, using trained dogs is the basis for supporting rapid tests to detect infected people at the earliest. However, we still need a PCR test to determine whether a person is infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus (COVID-19).

On another research conducted by the University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover in Germany, published in July 2020. Eight dogs were trained for a week to detect SARS-CoV-2 in saliva or tracheal secretions from people with COVID-19. The research found that the dogs determined the difference between positive and negative samples. On average, dogs can identify correctly 82.63% of positive samples as positive and 96.35% of negative samples as negative.

There is still a lot of research needed to conduct before applying widely in airports, but this may offer a new hope to detect infected people in time, prevent the pandemic as soon as possible.

Can Dachshunds be police dogs to detect COVID-19?

Can Dachshunds be police dogs to detect COVID-19?

Dachshund is a small and may be a tough dog breed. Used to be bred to hunt badgers both above and below ground. As one of the top 10 dog breeds have the best sense of smell and this dog breed is very smart, the dachshund is an ideal choice to assist police officers to detect COVID-19. However, these four-legged friends are not easy to train to be police dogs because they are so mischievous. So they should better be owned at home.

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How Long Do Dogs Sleep?

Similar to humans, dachshunds or other dog breeds need sleep to rest, recharge, or have time to repair muscle, organs, and cells. If we usually stay awake during the day, sleep at night, ideally a long sleep from 6 to 8 hours per night. Do you ever wonder how many hours your dogs sleep a day?

According to studies, puppies’ sleep includes napes both day and night. In 24 hours, they spend 50% of the time sleeping, 30% resting, they only really act normally 20% of the time each day.

How many hours a day do dogs sleep?

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Sleep duration will vary across ages, breeds, activity levels, health, and even sleeping locations.

These pooches can sleep 18-20 hours a day. They have developed brains, everything is new to them. They always explore new things, and that makes them easy to get tired and need a lot of rest.

Older dogs also tend to sleep more. Generally, a normal dog usually sleeps between 12-14 hours a day.

Why do dogs sleep so much?

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Our four legs sleep a lot more than people do, and they will sleep when they feel it’s time to sleep, unlike people who are always busy and don’t pay attention to the signals from their bodies.

Besides, most puppies will easily fall asleep whenever they can’t find anything better to do. No work, no smartphone, no deadline… then sleeping is the best way for them to spend a long boring day or be alone all day. In addition, they do not have the ability to control their bodies, so whenever they feel out of energy, tired, they will lie down and sleep.

Another reason that makes our furry friends sleep a lot. When they eat food and act enough, then they can sleep a lot and you don’t need to worry about that. Because this is just a physiological phenomenon of an animal.

Where should puppies sleep?

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Dogs can nap anywhere as well as they feel comfortable, warm or simply they like to lie in awkward positions. However, you have better provide a good dog bed to your pooch that can give your dog a comfortable space for sleeping.

A dog bed does not need to be expensive, but you should provide thicker beds for older dogs, comfier beds for teacup dogs.

Do we need to worry about our dog’s sleep habits?

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Regularly observing your puppies’ expressions helps you recognize unusual signs in their behavior so that you can take care of your pet properly and help them grow up healthy.