2007-10-02 01:43:28 · 10 answers · asked by akadave 3 in Pets ➔ Dogs
my dog is a 5 y/o lab boxer mix, their dog is a german shepard,
2007-10-02 02:07:04 · update #1
Dogs can sense when seizure activity is about to begin. I have epilepsy and once owned a shar pei. She was extremely well behaved, except every now and then she would climb up in my lap, even if there wasn't room for her. Turns out, she was trying to warn me that I was going to have a seizure. She started doing this on her own, had no training as a seizure dog. It may be their sense of smell or their ability to read people and other animals. It just always amazes me how each dog I have eventually finds their own way to protect and warn me. I have a GSD now who will follow every step I take...when she gets clingy like that, I know to be careful because a seizure is on its way. Isn't it great how dogs can read us better than other humans sometimes?
2007-10-02 01:55:32 · answer #1 · answered by Really now 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
WOW.. sounds like you have a dog that can predict epilepsy fits.. THis has been heard of before. They actually train such dogs to alert a person before the person has a seisure, so the person can sit down, go to a safe place, etc...
Not every dog has this unique skill..
I'm not sure how they can predict it.. They might be ultra-observant and sense eye-flutters or things that precede a siesure but go unnoticed.. or they may actually smell a chemical change in the body.. Don't think anyone knows...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3-aknBguiY
2007-10-02 01:50:28 · answer #2 · answered by Shelly P. Tofu, E.M.T. 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Considering dogs can smell out cancer in people I'm not surprised at this. One of my dogs has epilepsy but I haven't noticed the other dog reacting prior to a seizure. Some dogs are just extra clever, i think it's pretty special.
2007-10-02 01:52:15 · answer #3 · answered by daffodil 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Some dogs can sense physical abnormalities like that in people and react or alert when a fit is coming/starting, so I guess it works for dogs as well, if not better.
Your dog may be a good candidate to be trained to help people or other dogs.
2007-10-02 01:51:39 · answer #4 · answered by natali 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Dogs have amazingly sensitive noses. Some have even been trained to sniff out skin cancers before standard diagnostic methods can detect them.
Your dog is alerting on the other animal. Dogs bark as a means of communicating as you probably know.
2007-10-02 01:54:50 · answer #5 · answered by Leslie L 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
in medicine these days in England some people who have epilepsy can get trained dogs that can tell them just before they have a fit and they reward the dog with cheese the dogs can somehow sense it amazing a ?
2007-10-02 03:00:16 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because he senses it's about to happen, maybe he can smell it coming on, I don't know for sure but I do know that several people who have dogs and epilepsy report that the same thing happens with their dogs.
2007-10-02 01:48:59 · answer #7 · answered by Debi 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Because dogs have excellent hearing. Your neighbor's dog probably emits a high frequency squeak or whimper prior to the seizure, that is probably inaudible to us humans, but not to your dog. He probably hears a sound from the neighbor dog, and that triggers his barking.
2007-10-02 01:54:37 · answer #8 · answered by ~RedBird~ 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I have read a report where a cat in a nursing home can predict which person will pass away next. And this cat makes her predictions by spending an entire day with the person who is next to pass. It has been documented, I will see if I can find a link.
There is a lot more to animals then we currently understand.
2007-10-02 02:35:30 · answer #9 · answered by theCATALYST 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
they can sense the electrical change in the brain by smelling the changes in the dogs metobolism.
2007-10-02 01:50:43 · answer #10 · answered by caltimes8 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋