The 15 Dog Breeds With the Best Sense of Smell

Dogs are generally known to have a good sense of smell, but some breeds have this quality even in better ways as compared to other breeds.


Dogs are known to have born with their ears and eyes closed. When they get to this earth, the only sense that guides them until their eyes and ears open is their sense of smell. With this sense, they identify the mother and her milk. The remarkable sense of smell has astonished scientists in many circumstances. Even though, dogs are generally known to have several 100 times better smelling senses as compared to humans, some breeds are known to have this sense in better as compared to other breeds. Here is a list of top 15 breeds with this sense:

1. Bloodhound:

This breed is widely used for tracking purpose, mainly because of its sense of smell. The nostrils of this breed are large and wide enough to absorb the utmost particles possible.
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The 15 Dog Breeds With the Best Sense of Smell

2. Beagle:

This breed is widely used in the United States to search for contraband food and many other undesirable items in the airport, due to their excellent sense of smell.


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The 15 Dog Breeds With the Best Sense of Smell

3. German Shepard:

The sense of smell of this breed made it a companion to police and military forces in many countries of the world. They work tirelessly in narcotics detection and rescue operations.


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The 15 Dog Breeds With the Best Sense of Smell

4. Dachshund:

This breed eagerly hunts and due to their smelling sense, they easily catch the prey both over and under the earth.
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5. Harrier:

The strong nose of this breed helps it to hunt hare. It is a dedicated hunter and known for its excellent tracking ability.
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The 15 Dog Breeds With the Best Sense of Smell

6. Basset hound:

The tracking ability of basset hound is something highly appreciated. They have large ears that carry scents up from the ground and the folding under the skin helps this breed to trap scents near the nose.
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The 15 Dog Breeds With the Best Sense of Smell

7. Redbone Coonhound:

This breed can easily identify even the faintest smells and this breed is a natural hunter.
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8. Bluetick Coonhound:

This cold-nosed trailing dog variety breed lacks the strong desire to please. This makes it highly difficult to train this breed and it can identify even faint smell.
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9. English foxhound:

This breed is known for its excellent fox hunting capabilities and the good nose of this breed helps it identify the whereabouts of foxes.
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The 15 Dog Breeds With the Best Sense of Smell

10. Labrador Retriever:

The America’s favorite dog breed is an excellent sniffer and they are trained to detect cancer from the breath of humans. They are also used for detecting medically undetectable bladder cancer for the urine of patients.
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11. Black and tan coonhound:

This breed can work well even under moonlight and tracking dogs under this breed can exactly follow the prey out of their smelling ability.
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12. Treeing walker coonhound:

This hot-nosed hunter has the excellent ability to follow scents.
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13. Golden Retriever:

This breed uses its sense of smell in a wide range of detection works. When they are trained rightly, they can be used for tracking purpose.
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14. Scottish Terrier:

Due to its smelling ability, it can identify its prey under the earth and will catch the same rightly.
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15. Belgian Malinois:

This military working dog makes effective use of its keen nose for detecting explosives.
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