Heroic Animals

[WhatThe]

Its one of those things that I cannot explain. I don't know how dogs even know how to predict seizures and the such.

These miracles hint at something definitely supernatural and something beyond human logic.

Dogs can often predict seizures, blood sugar levels, cancer, etc, by smell.
For example, a person with diabeties, when their sugar levels get too high, a dog will be able to smell the sweetness in their sweat and alert them.
In a similar way, a person's chemical balance chages just before the onset of a seizure.

In response to other situations, dogs are pack animals. When a dog is domesticated, it becomes a member of your 'pack', and is therefore looking out for all the other members. I have heard a story of a dog noticing that a baby was having trouble breathing (obviously is could hear that it sounded different) so it ran to alert the 'pack leader' (the mother). So in most cases, it is less of a miracle and more os pack survival instinct.
I don't know about wild animals, though.

On a side note, my dog will tell me if the phone is ringing when I have headphones one!

 

[ke1985]

^^ Very cool! Animals are definitely in tune with the supernatural.

 

[keith99]

Dogs can often predict seizures, blood sugar levels, cancer, etc, by smell.
For example, a person with diabeties, when their sugar levels get too high, a dog will be able to smell the sweetness in their sweat and alert them.
In a similar way, a person's chemical balance chages just before the onset of a seizure.

In response to other situations, dogs are pack animals. When a dog is domesticated, it becomes a member of your 'pack', and is therefore looking out for all the other members. I have heard a story of a dog noticing that a baby was having trouble breathing (obviously is could hear that it sounded different) so it ran to alert the 'pack leader' (the mother). So in most cases, it is less of a miracle and more os pack survival instinct.
I don't know about wild animals, though.

On a side note, my dog will tell me if the phone is ringing when I have headphones one!

Bingo on the pack. When we got our first dog we had 2 rats. We took the rats to the ASPCA shelter to be sure they got along with the dog. They did, even the APSCA people were surprised at how well, they were climbing on him and 'riding him'. (I should mention that while the ASPCA had done a great job of fleshing him out he was still a very underweight 90 Lbs.). Later we got a second dog. The first dog was the pack leader, no question. Then one day the second dog is sitting by the rats cage and starts wining. The dog had noticed the rat had his foot caught and was in distress. The rat was part of his pack. He expected the pack leader (me) to fix it. I did. Poor rat was in such pain I was not able to get him freed without getting nipped.

Oh and the cats have always been part of the pact too. So far everything that is OK with me is OK withthe pack.

 

[WhatThe]

The dog had noticed the rat had his foot caught and was in distress. The rat was part of his pack. He expected the pack leader (me) to fix it. I did. Poor rat was in such pain I was not able to get him freed without getting nipped.

That's cool About the dog, i mean, not the rat being in pain!!
Unfortunately for my bird, my dogs don't see him as part of the pack. Well, the puppy doesn't. Or maybe he does, and he still has a grudge against him for that time he got pecked on the nose!!