Can Animals Predict that their Owner is Ill?Can Animals Predict that their Owner is Ill?

Introduction

There are some reports saying that dog’s ad cats have a way to detect illness in their owners [1].

The purpose of this article is to demonstrate that dogs can predict illness in their owner and can reduce the time of diagnosis and treatment doing the diagnosis earlier.

Case Report

X, 56 years-old male patients had the diagnosis of skin cancer after the dog barking a lot and wanted to bite the injury. He went to the doctor to see a lesion that he was presenting in the back in the lumbar region and the doctor did a biopsy that confirmed that it was skin cancer.

Her wife also was in treatment of skin melanoma. She said that, thanks to the dog, the diagnosis of skin cancer that was affecting the husband was made and early treatment was carried out, giving good results.

Discussion

Dogs have a great sense of smell because there are 125 to 300 million scent receptors depending on the breed [1].

To you to know, humans only have approximately 5 million scent receptors [1].

Dogs having an accurate sense of smell and high awareness of diverse energies surrounding them, they can detect illness such as certain types of cancer or epileptic seizures [1].

Cats also have an accurate sense od smell and have the ability to sniff out some changes in the body produced by chemical reactions in the body caused by disease formation [1].

They can also sense changes in the behavior, mood and pattern that can affect the daily routine of the person [1].

It is described that dogs and cats saved many lives by identifying the human illness through the scent of chemical alterations caused by formation of illness [1].

When their owner is dying, cats changed their mood and alter their behavior much more like person do. They can become listless and depressed and decline to play and eat. They can sulk around, sleep more than usual and move slowly [2].

There is no documented dog’s prediction death officially but there Rhode Island cat called Oscar that gained fame for the ability to sense the deaths of nursing home residents [2]. The conclusion of this article is to show that dogs and cats have the ability to predict illness in their owner and they can save lives or reduce the time of diagnosis and treatment of diseases, as reported in this article.