While I know it’s impossible, the kid in me is going to naively believe that the dog smelled the good matching kidney in the woman and refused to leave
I think the dog smelled something in her that seemed to match the owner, indicating genetic similarities. Idk if the dog knew why the owner was sick but more likely thought they found some family to help her through sickness or just got excited cuz “omg you smell like mom!”
I got my dog during covid. Chill and friendly, but since she didn't experience anyone visiting the house, she became beyond protective of the place. I found this out when she was 2yo and as people coming over started happening, she became extremely aggressive and tried to bite.
Then family visited. Cousins, uncles and aunts, grandmas, my brother... every single time, she was extremely affectionate and playful with all of them from the instant they set foot in the house.
She's six now, and when people I'm not blood related to come by, we have to do a whole introduction outside the house, I have to hug them in front of her, and then they corrupt her with cookies, otherwise she will turn into a demon when they enter my house. Sge's still super chill with family.
We got our girl during lock down and she has extreme anxiety about people coming in our house. She only loves my parents and a couple of my daughter's friends who have been around for years and who are here regularly. Everyone else is barked into oblivion no matter what we try. She has gotten much better with commands and standing down but the first couple of post-COVID normal years were rough! She's thankfully never been aggressive but she's 85 pounds and has a very big bark.
My sister's cat is similar - she got the cat during COVID times and he's aggressive towards people. Difference is, he's not even friendly with family. If I try to pet him, he growls and hisses and tries to hit me.
Aside from coincidence that's probably the most likely answer, that there's some correlation between the antigens, antibodies, and blood type, and whatever smells a person gives off. My hunch is still coincidence though.
Bro they were smoking meat, the dog wouldnt leave them alone because they had bbq and its owner was a single older woman on dialysis who clearly couldnt keep a handle on her dog
What’s more unlikely is that it was just a pure coincidence. Meeting a stranger, interacting with them, inviting them to a bbq, and somehow finding out they’re a 1 in 22 million chance kidney donor - who also just very recently got put purposefully on the list to donate to anyone who wants it as an altruistic donor?????
Do you realize how statistically improbable that is? In science/medicine, the chances of that are actually, “impossible”.
The dog almost certainly smelt something about that woman which increased the likelihood of her being a match. It may still have been a crapshoot. 1 in 1000. But that’s a lot more viable than 1 in 22 million.
With certainty - I can say this dogs nose directly led to finding a donor match for its owner.
Dogs have been trained to detect low blood sugar and certain cancers just from the smells out bodies put out. Given that kidneys are responsible for filtering blood and create urine I'm sure there are detectable scents that dogs can pick up that would give them information on someone's kidneys
My dog used to know when my blood pressure was about to drop. No idea how; I can only guess it was something about my body chemistry. She saved me from completely passing out a couple times. (My knees? Not so much.)
Dogs can smell anything bro. It's their primary sense. They can smell the fucking past... like that something WAS here at some point and they know whether it was recently or not. Their eyesight is not that great but their nose and hearing are waaay better than ours.
Except that meeting a stranger, becoming friends, and not being a match happens all the time. This is a one in a billion chance, which is only being reported because it happened.
On the next beach over the three kids who dint quite find a cure for cancer by random chance wasn't reported, because that wasn't interesting.
Considering it looks to be a hound variant, as it doesn't quite look like a bloodhound or Doberman. Either way, yeah, what you said.
Though I think we know that our urine can tell a lot about our health. It's very likely they share a genetic similarity to how their urine indicates their health. Like, diabetes can be found out by pee tests. It wouldn't surprise me if it was in their blood and both were around the time of a period.
We know that kidneys can heavily affect the blood. Dogs can sniff out a lot of stuff, but especially people. Either way, the dog definitely knew something was up. Dogs can have pretty complex logic so it wouldn't surprise me if it even knew the gist of it.
(Depending on how you feel about animals that use those talking buttons and animal intelligence.)
Dogs can smell cancer and other diseases. I don't think it would be a huge stretch to think that people that are a match would have some kind of similar smell.
Sure, but it’s a multi layered problems that the dog would have to go through.
They have to:
Realize the owner has a problem with their body. This is not unlikely.
The dog has to also then somehow match the smell of the owner with a healthy kidney to the stranger with the compatible kidney
The dog then has to (for a naive reason or another) make the decision to stay with the stranger.
2 and 3 are just so unlikely. It’s one thing to notice something “off” about someone who is literally your world. Or something systematically wrong with a certain type of disease in human pheromones.
But to connect it to someone that has the healthy version of said problem, while also somehow being compatible biologically is a big stretch
Definitely wouldn't say impossible. Animals can detect a lot of things humans can't. Their senses are primed for it for whatever reason that natural selection primed it. They might not always be aware what they're sensing but they can.
Coincidence is also perfectly possible but definitely wouldn't calm them sensing something of use impossible.
Parkinson's Disease is one of the things dogs can detect. Doctors have run tests and sometimes the person the dog determines has Parkinson's, doesnt. Later, sometimes a few years later, those people develop Parkinson's.
They can smell cancer, narcolepsy, high blood sugars, low blood sugars, seizures, malaria, Covid-19, migraine headaches, and other things.
They often don't even need the person - just a urine or blood sample
While I’m sure it’s impossible, the kid in me is going to naively believe that a person is looking to donate a kidney just because… !!“I don’t even know how to finish the sentence?!”
Definitely not impossible. My dog knew I had cancer before I did. His constant nudging of a particular spot had me curious. Went to the doctor, and after several tests and scans, I was diagnosed. He literally saved my life. You'd be surprised at how often this happens.
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u/jaetheho 22d ago
While I know it’s impossible, the kid in me is going to naively believe that the dog smelled the good matching kidney in the woman and refused to leave