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There is a scent, I believe it is a hormone but I don’t think it is what the body actually produces. If a dog reacts to it they can try to train it. If it doesn
by cgriswald 8y ago
There is a scent, I believe it is a hormone but I don’t think it is what the body actually produces. If a dog reacts to it they can try to train it. If it doesn’t, they train the dog for something else or find it a good home. They also have people fake seizures. You can probably find some YouTube videos of it.
We have a dog that could do it. She could warn us about my partner’s seizures and fainting a few minutes before it happened. She could fetch help and apply pressure to the abdomen. (I say could because my partner had surgery a year ago and hasn’t had any seizures or fainting since then.)
I definitely noticed a change in my partner before seizures (but not fainting). The dog alerted on me once during a moment of high anxiety. I wouldn’t begin to argue WHAT the dog is actually reacting to, but the training methods people are using seem to work.
- hinkley 8y agoI wonder if the fake seizures confuse the dogs about what signs to look for... Might be a quantity over quality problem though (how would you train enough dogs without faking it?)
- cgriswald 8y agoI’m not an expert on this so I’m just guessing but I think the fake seizures are more for training what to do during the seizure rather than the detection part.