July 7, 2020

Cat Warren’s “What the Dog Knows: Scent, Science and the Amazing Ways Dogs Perceive the World”

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In this episode 120, we visit with Cat Warren, author of “What the Dog Knows: Scent, Science and the Amazing Ways Dogs Perceive the World,” a New York Times Bestseller.

REBECCA SKLOOT, The New York Times Book Review, says: “What the Dog Knows is a fascinating, deeply reported journey into scent, death, forensics and the amazing things dogs can do with their noses: sniffing out graves, truffles, bedbugs, maybe even cancer. But it’s also a moving story of how one woman transformed her troubled dog into a loving companion and an asset to society, all while stumbling on the beauty of life in their searches for death.”

We start the show with Cat reading from the Introduction of the book, where we learn a bit about how Cat and her dog, Solo, got comfortable working with the dead.

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About the Author

Cat Warren is a professor at North Carolina State University, where she teaches science journalism, editing, and creative nonfiction.

Before joining NC State, Cat was a newspaper reporter. She’s covered bombers holding a school hostage, a physician who sexually assaulted dozens of patients over decades, and the deep poverty in Connecticut cities.

Cat has also been a national education magazine editor and a communication director for a non-profit justice organization.

Her first nonacademic book, What the Dog Knows: Scent, Science, and the Amazing Ways Dogs Perceive the World (Touchstone) became a New York Times bestseller and was long listed for the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award.

Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers published her adaptation of that book in October 2019.

She lives with her husband, David, and their two large German shepherds, Jaco and Rev, in Durham N.C.

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Author Cat Warren with her German Shepherd, Rev.

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