Oh yep they can sure pick up the scent well! We had an incident awhile back when Kyna was still in quarantine in our bedroom. I had her tub open and my husband walked into the room with a p/k mouse on the hemostats. Kyna literally stood up on her tail and tried to go over my shoulder toward the smell. Mike was easily at least 5 to 6 feet away with that mouse and she knew it was coming in LOL. Startled the heck outta me! Even though Kyna didn't try to strike at me I learned a good lesson that day about getting between a hungry BP and a warm rodent