Do dogs predict death? This question has been asked by many experts in canine behavior.It is scientifically recognized that dogs are able to discover the existence of various types of cancer that people suffer.
It is also known that dogs can detect the presence of positive and negative forces or energies in the environment, which the human being does not perceive.It is even said that they are able to see spirits.Therefore, if we go a little further, we could speculate that thanks to their sensitive senses the Dogs may sometimes predict the deaths of human beings.
In this Animals and Pets Online article we will try to elucidate whether dogs predict death.
The sense of smell
The sense of smell of dogs is superlative .Thanks to dogs are able to achieve great feats that human technology has not yet managed to emulate.
They are able to detect, thanks to their prodigious olfactory sense, changes in the composition of atmospheric air in the areas that will be affected, and that occur previously, as in earthquakes.
Canine smell and life
It is recognized, for countless cases that the dogs that accompany the rescue forces when they come to help the people affected in the great catastrophes, react differently before the detection of the surviving victims or the corpses.
When they detect a living person buried in rubble, the dogs insistently and joyfully point out the "hot" points, after which the firefighters and equipment of Rescue can start the rescue immediately.
Canine smell and death
Dogs trained to detect survivors among the ruins produced by avalanches, earthquakes, floods and other catastrophes, indicate in the manner explained above the points where there are people alive buried by the ruins.
However, when they find corpses their behavior offers a radical change .The joy they show when they find a surviving person disappears and shows signs of unease and even fear.loin hair is bristling, they groan, turn on themselves, and even sometimes howl or defecate in fear.
Why do these different canine behaviors happen?
Imagine a catastrophic scenario : the ruins of an earthquake, with victims alive and dead buried under huge amounts of rubble, dust, wood, ferralla, fixtures and furniture of collapsed buildings.
People buried, whether alive or dead, are not in sight.Therefore, the most plausible thing is for the dog to detect the victims by their smell, and even by the ear if the person buried screams.
Following the above reasoning..., how is it possible for the dog to distinguish whether the person is alive or is already dead? The most plausible conclusion is that there is a distinctly distinct odor between life and death in a human body, even if the death is very recent.Smells that the trained dog is able to differentiate.
Intermediate state
An intermediate stage between life and death has a specific name: agonia.
There are many kinds of agonies; the heinous ones in which the suffering of the sick or injured is so obvious that any person intuits a certain death in more or less time because the signs are evident, but there are also sweet, serene agonies, in which imminent signs of death, and in which technology has not yet reached the precision of canine smell.
If the living body has a smell, and when it dies it has a different one..., it is not unreasonable to think that there is a third intermediate smell for the agonistic state of the human being.I think that this assumption answers correctly and affirmatively the question that gives title to this article: Do dogs predict death?
However, to be more precise I would say that sometimes some dogs can predict the death .I don't think all dogs can predict All deaths.If so, this canine faculty would be recognized since the man and the dog live together.
Related events
It is conclusively known that some animals (wolves, for example) somehow announce their imminent end to the members of their pack.Ethologists (behavioral specialists animal), they argue that it is a way to prevent the other individuals in the pack from becoming infected and that it is better that they move away from it.This behavior has also been observed among cockroaches.
This similarity of behavior between species as disparate as a wolf and a cockroach...why does it happen? Science gives the motive a name: Necromonas .
In the same way that we know the meaning of pheromones (imperceptible organic compounds that secrete animals in heat, or people with sexual urgency), necromones are another type of organic compounds that agonic bodies exude, and that most likely is what dogs sometimes catch in sick people, whose end is approaching.
Necromonas and feelings
Necromones have been studied scientifically, basically among insects.Cockroaches, ants, mealybugs, etc.In these insects it has been observed that the chemical composition of their necromones comes from their fatty acids Especially the oleic acid and the acid linoleic , which are the first to degrade in agonic state.
During the experiment, areas with these substances have been sprayed, observing that cockroaches avoided passing over, as if it were a contaminated area.
Dogs and other animals have feelings.Different to humans, true, but equivalent.For this reason it should not surprise us that dogs or cats "watch" the last hours of some people.And there is no doubt that no one has told them the fatal outcome that will occur shortly, but it is clear that of a one way or another they feel it .
It would be very interesting to know experiences work on this topic that our readers have experienced.
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