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Her dog was the only thing good in her life, and even he was starting to go bad.
After losing her entire family in a car accident that left her with moderate brain damage, Cynthia had bought a large, friendly dog to comfort her as she tried to recover from her trauma.
For the first year and a half, the animal’s companionship had helped her get through each day. But, the large dog grew increasingly agitated, and started biting on her pant leg, pulling so hard that she almost hit the ground.
Puzzled, the vet gave her several ideas for curbing the animal’s strange behavior, but nothing seemed to work.
Exasperated, Cynthia was on the verge of giving her dog up to an animal shelter when she had her first epileptic seizure.
During a conversation with her neurologist after the attack, Cynthia told her doctor about her dog’s inexplicable behavior. To her surprise, the doctor said. “Your dog is fine. In fact more, than fine. I believe he’s one of those dogs that senses when seizures are about to happen. He’s been tugging on your pants to get you to sit down so you won’t fall and hurt yourself.”
The neurologist turned out to be correct. Cynthia’s pet was one of the gifted canines capable of sensing the potential onset of an epileptic seizure. Even though she had only had one outright seizure, brain damage from the accident had moved her to the brink of having a seizure multiple times. And each time her furry companion had tried to save her.
So, here’s the question: How many people do you know who are smart enough to sense when someone is about to have a seizure and get them to the ground before they hurt themselves?
Answer: Zero.
Cynthia’s dog was smarter than any human when it came to epilepsy. Neuroscientists believe that dog’s acute sense of smell may help them detect subtle chemical changes associated with epilepsy. But we don’t have a clue how the animals know that pulling someone who is about to have a seizure to the ground is a good idea. Without training, other seizure dogs have spontaneously gotten pillows to cushion their owner’s fall.
Knowing what to do with epilepsy isn’t the only area that dogs can be smarter than humans. Although canine’s “encephalization quotient” (ratio of brain size to body size) is only 1/6th that of human’s, dogs have a far superior sense of olfaction that allows them to hold scents in memory that we can’t even detect in the first place. Comparative Psychologists have long used sensory memory as one index of intelligence. So in one sense (pardon the pun), your pooch is not only smarter than you but way smarter than you because your dog's sense of smell is over 1000 times more sensitive than yours.
Recent research also shows that dogs can detect your mood by watching your facial expressions and listening to the tone your voice. Because we often aren’t consciously aware of our feelings, dogs can know what you’re feeling long before you do.
Bottom line: dogs may not have our IQ, but in some areas their EQ (Emotional Intelligence) is off the charts.
Of course, if you’re a dog owner you already knew that.
And odds are your dog knew you knew that before you knew you knew that.
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http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982214001237
http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2014/02/21/280640267/how-dogs-r...
http://m.phys.org/news/2013-12-humans-smarter-animals-experts.html
http://www.academia.edu/5800161/Canine_Olfaction_Scent_Sign_and_Situatio...
http://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2009/08/dogs-think.aspx
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3121280/Dogs-snub-people-...
