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Im here to finally answer the age long question “can dogs smell fear”. Legend has it when you are afraid of a dog it smells your fear and decides to attack…just like when someone tells you not to be afraid of the dog because it will attack you if your scared (consoling words).

There is some truth behind this statement. Nine-teen in every twenty males, and twenty-three out of every fourty-five females, have small scents of urine over there body, in various areas depending. This causes the animal to smell you, and this gives the animals a sense of danger, and they believe you are harmful to them. Thus causing them to attack, or run away. Usually you will either want to run, or stay, so they dont actually smell fear per say, but they smell the urnine, along with the mentality of being afraid, and the scent of adrenaline.

So yes, they can smell adrenaline, as well as urine, and your mentality.

Bottom line: Its ok to be a little scared of dogs…just make sure you don’t pee your pants! 

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