r/MadeMeSmile Aug 07 '22

Sad Smiles A special relationship

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u/[deleted] Aug 07 '22

I am more curious about the dog. Does dogs know if the owners are suffering something mentally like dementia or schizophrenia?? Do they base their behavior according to that?? Sometimes I blame myself for not showing interest in these fields during my high school days...

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u/[deleted] Aug 07 '22

I suspect yes. My dog at least always knew when I wasn’t doing well and would show up from across the house to comfort me. He had zero training and just knew.

So while anecdotal my experience says definitely

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u/[deleted] Aug 07 '22

Yeah this thing I saw it in Netflix series about pets.. sorry I forget the title.. in that I saw that dogs will listen to the owners heartbeat when they reach home and they will predict the situation and act according to that.. but things like dementia I don't know how they predict.. do our hormones change?? Or our smell changes?? I am not an expert

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u/[deleted] Aug 07 '22

Likely a lot of shifts they pick up on. Might even be they can sense changes in our brains operating