I found this in Yahoo news today.
Dog calls ambulance to save owner
It was like a scene from Lassie. A dog telephoned for an ambulance and then unlocked the door for the police after her owner fell from her wheelchair.
After calling 911, four-year-old Rottweiler, Faith, barked urgently into the receiver to get help for 45-year-old Leana Beasley.
Ms Beasley suffered a seizure at her home in Washington state, in the north west United States.
"I sensed there was a problem on the other end of the 911 call," said emergency operator Jenny Buchanan. "The dog was too persistent in barking directly into the phone receiver. I knew she was trying to tell me something."
Faith has been trained to knock the receiver off the hook and press a speed dial button to call the emergency services.
But that's not all. The dog is also trained in first aid.
"She's trained to get under my body, roll me to my stomach so that fluid can run out," Ms Beasley told the local television channel KVEW-TV.
"She takes her nose pushes my chin up to open the airway, and then she's trained to lick my face and keep any fluid away so I don't drown."
Faith also uses her sensitive nose to detect changes in Ms Beasley's body chemistry which could indicate she is about to have a seizure.
Ms Beasley believes Faith had been trying to warn her all day that she was in danger. The day of the fall, Faith "had been acting very clingy, wanting to be touching me all day long" Ms Beasley said.
Not only can dogs smell minute changes in a person's body chemistry that will predict the onset of a seizure, but they also can smell cancer. There has been more than one story of a dog that persistently sniffed at a certain spot on someone's skin and it turned out to be malignant. More recently, tests were done that showed a dog can smell an internal cancer by sniffing urine. One of the people in the test, the dog kept saying she had cancer but they thought it was absurd because she was one of the control samples...on further investigation, turns out she had a cancerous tumor in her bladder.
-f
Originally posted by fierceThey thought it was absurd that the dog said she had cancer when she was only a test case.
One of the people in the test, the dog kept saying she had cancer but they thought it was absurd because she was one of the control samples...on further investigation, turns out she had a cancerous tumor in her bladder.
-f
I'd have thought the really absurd thing would have been that the dog said anything at all!!! 😉
: D