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Dogs' sense of smell is so good they can effectively use it to see into the past
A dog walking down a street will know what other dogs have been around recently, where they came from and went to, and how long ago. Will be able to tell if they are familiar or new dogs, and loads of information about them including about their emotions and health. Dogs can literally smell fear as well as things like cancer
Their hearing can be pretty insane too. Mine can hear somebody cycling down the road 100m away, from inside the house behind double glazing, and know that it's my wife not some random
Eyesight not as good as ours, even though he's a sighthound
This presumably has profound impacts on their consciousness - their 4D sense on smell will be much more central to their experience of the world than their sight