Doctor Dogs

[Cat's Cradle]

Another reason to love and respect doggies. A fascinating interview about the wonders of the canine olfactory ability, and it's also a rare spirit-lifting news article. (Should be a few SF stories in there, too!)

How Super Sniffer Dogs Are Helping Detect Disease Around The World

Our canine buddies can do more than play fetch. Turns out dogs' incredible sense of smell is a secret weapon in medicine.

www.npr.org

 

[elvet]

One of my patients was a epilepsy therapy dog that would warn their owner that a seizure was coming on. Amazing stuff!

 

[nixie]

My dog used to warn us when my partner's blood sugar was getting low, there was a number of times he woke me in the night when partner was close to going into a diabetic coma. During the day he would whine and paw him if his blood sugar dropped below three.
Dogs do have a sense of picking up on things even when not trained for it.

 

[Allegra]

It also shows how affectionate they are!