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Here's a simple introductory sort of essay on seizure dogs for those who might be interested in such things, or in need of such things, or have never heard of such things but need to hear about such things.
Damn Interesting » Seizure Dogs: As is too common, when humans are unable or unwilling to care for fellow humans, we find that our canine friends are up to the task. Dogs trained to aid people with epilepsy are rare because they have to be absolutely perfect in their responses and reliability. Not only can these Seizure Response Dogs–or more commonly just called “Seizure Dogs”–help and protect a person during and after a seizure, but sometimes are able to detect when a seizure is about to happen and offer warning.I've been further interested lately in dogs who seem to know about their companions' heart disease, as was the case for Ken Foster, as described in his book The Dogs Who Found Me. Dogs seem to be picking up on something about humans that we are either unable to sense, or too busy looking for something else to notice. It may simply be that dogs are so freakishly focused on us that they notice something's up first... I don't doubt there are humans who can sense such things. But how many of us pay attention to that? Do you? Have you ever thought, “Gee, Jake didn't look at all well,” and then learn later that something actually was wrong with them, but they didn't know it? Okay. I didn't mean to go down this path. But I'm still curious. Do you have the dogsense (I see sick people)? The ability to sense illness? Or have you heard of a dog doing this for others? Listening to “All Songs Considered for Thursday, 27 Jul 2006” by NPR from the album NPR: All Songs Considered on
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