In today’s episode, we meet 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.