TELEPATHY IN DOGS

[Guest greengrass123]

Are some dogs capable of being telepathic or do they pick up on body movements no matter how miniscule. Im sure most people on here have seen dogs react to commands before there is any obvious instruction, or do they posess senses that humans once had but have gone by the wayside. You know that feeling when the hairs on your neck stand up when you think someone is behind you and you turn round and sure enough youre right.

[Malt 379]

I think it's down to them picking up body language off of you. With my mums Setter x Retriever, I only have to call his name, then look at a certain point on the floor. He'll then follow my gaze and go to the point I was looking at. They can pick up the most subtle of hints when they know you well enough.

[Kye 77]

I think that they have extra sensory perseption...not in a weird "X-Files" type of way...i know they are using dogs over here know to smell CANCER, actually IN the human body...and they can detect other sickness from smelling urine from people.

 

 

Also, i think its incredible how a cadaver dog can detect the difference between a dead person and a live person, trpped under water, 30 feet deep!...How do they do it?

 

Maybe they are more sensitive to electric pulses/waves than humans?...like some people get head-aches when a storms coming, and some dont..maybe the head-ache victims are just more in 'tune' or sensitive to there enviroment...whatever the case may be, its an interesting topic!

 

Kye..

[Hunting Dachshund 0]

Their scenting ability is much more developed than ours and they can smell the hormones and other substances we excrete in our sweat glands. So in addition to body language, they can smell our emotions or even physical condition. I am sure you've heard of dogs that could detect cancers or predict seizures in epileptic patients.

[SEAN3513 7]

found this on the net ................ interesting read !!!!

 

Do dogs sense things differently than humans do? Well, yes and no. Dogs share the same basic senses with us: they see, hear, touch, smell and taste. But the level of their senses is different – an important distinction when you’re trying to figure out just what your dog is doing.

 

Sight: It was once thought that dogs were “color-blind†– only able to see shades of black and white with some grey, but scientific studies have found that’s not true. Dogs can see in color – ranging from blues and greens to greys and crèmes, and of course, black and white. It’s been estimated that humans can distinguish somewhere between 7 and 10 million different colors. (We don’t even have names for that many colors!)

 

But dogs have it all over humans in detecting motion – that’s one reason they can detect a cat up a tree at a much greater distance than you can! And their night vision is typically better than ours – dogs have an additional reflective layer in the eye called the tapetum lucidum, which reflects light back into the receptor cells of the eye, which not only increases their night vision, but gives them that spooky appearance of eyes glowing in the dark.

 

Hearing: When your dog is barking like crazy in the middle of the night, don’t just assume he’s lonely and wants you to get up and keep him company. He may be listening to something that you can’t hear, that’s extremely upsetting to him – like a burglar breaking in your basement window. Dogs can hear at four times the distance humans can – that means you might hear something from a 100 yards away your dog could hear from a quarter of a mile away. Their ears are also better designed to gather more of the available sound wave – they have 15 different muscles that move their ears in all directions, plus they can move one ear at a time – and independently of the other to absorb even more information!

 

Touch: Dogs also have a well-developed sense of touch, surprising perhaps under all that fur, although this sense is much less sophisticated than a human’s. Puppies are born with sensory receptors in their faces so they can find mama even if they’re separated before they open their eyes. But they also can sense touch all over their bodies, just as humans can. One reason your dog flops down on the couch next to you and tries to snuggle up on a hot day (or any other day for that matter!) is because he likes the comfort of feeling that you’re right there!

 

Smell: We can’t even come close to our dog’s ability to smell things. It’s been estimated that a dog’s sense of smell is 100,000 times more powerful than a human’s. Scientists think that humans have about 40 million olfactory receptors, versus 2 billion for your dog! That’s part of the reason dogs make such good trackers, and can trace scents across all sorts of distractions – like across roadways or through dense woods. Dogs also use their sense of smell as a communications tool – when they’re running around the park with their nose to the ground, sniffing everything in sight, they’re actually reading the calling cards of everyone – dogs, humans, cats, squirrels, and anyone or anything else, that has been there before him. Which is why he may not pay attention to you when you first get to the park – he’s trying to see if any of his buddies have been there before him!

 

Taste: Just as with humans, taste is closely linked to the sense of smell – the main difference is humans won’t eat something that smells bad; while dogs are the opposite – the smellier the better. Dogs will gulp first and ask questions later. While humans many times won’t eat something that doesn’t look appealing, let alone doesn’t smell good, dogs are more concerned with smell, than taste. They frequently gobble down food before they have time to chew it, let alone taste it. But that’s ok – it’s why when we clean out our refrigerators our dogs think it’s time for treats.

 

So the next time your dog engages in some puzzling behavior, whether it’s barking for no reason, or ignoring you at the park, he might not be trying to irritate you – he’s just responding to a different level of senses than you are. Take a moment to look around and try and figure out what’s triggering his behavior before you get mad. Your dog could be trying to tell you something!

 

 

regards

 

sean

[speedlamper 0]

i've always wandered about this, my dog can be lay asleep on the settee for hours while im watching tv and if i turn away from the tv and look at her she'll open her eyes and look back at me

[Hunting Dachshund 0]

Also, i think its incredible how a cadaver dog can detect the difference between a dead person and a live person, trpped under water, 30 feet deep!...How do they do it?

Not only do dogs have more receptors per square inch or square cm in the nose epithelium than people, they also have many more different types of receptors and last but not least an intricate labyrinth in the nose cavity, which induces whirls of air while breathing air in. Some hunting dogs are also able to continuously breath air in while breathing out through the mouth. (Some people are also capable of doing this "circular breathing": eg Australian aboriginals while playing the didgeridoo)

The circulation of air in the nasal cavity of dogs enables the slightest amount of scent particles to be in contact with the receptors, the air to be sufficiently moisturized, and thus small amounts of scent particles/molecules be detected by the receptors.

We people only have a very simply designed nose cavity compared to a lot of animals.

What's more amazing is the recognition of all these thousands -if not more- different scents, which takes place in the brain. 2004 Nobel prize work by Axel and Buck explains how we recognize scents.

Lastly, scents are often linked to a specific feeling (think about certain smells - you probably attach: "like/dislike" to it). This is due to the projection fields of scents in the brain being very close to the emotion center in the midbrain. So scents are closely associated to emotions, so in the animal world it is considered more important in preservation the species: detecting danger as well as for reproduction.

 

Maybe they are more sensitive to electric pulses/waves than humans?...like some people get head-aches when a storms coming, and some dont..maybe the head-ache victims are just more in 'tune' or sensitive to there enviroment...whatever the case may be, its an interesting topic!

I am one of those people. It's easily explained by barometric pressure changes which could be detected in the brain. Most people notice also the change in air pressure when flying in an airplane or climbing a mountain....

[undisputed 1,664]

I think it's down to them picking up body language off of you. With my mums Setter x Retriever, I only have to call his name, then look at a certain point on the floor. He'll then follow my gaze and go to the point I was looking at. They can pick up the most subtle of hints when they know you well enough.

 

spot on mate

[BlueCoyote 0]

I think that they have extra sensory perseption...not in a weird "X-Files" type of way...i know they are using dogs over here know to smell CANCER, actually IN the human body...and they can detect other sickness from smelling urine from people.

 

 

Also, i think its incredible how a cadaver dog can detect the difference between a dead person and a live person, trpped under water, 30 feet deep!...How do they do it?

 

Maybe they are more sensitive to electric pulses/waves than humans?...like some people get head-aches when a storms coming, and some dont..maybe the head-ache victims are just more in 'tune' or sensitive to there enviroment...whatever the case may be, its an interesting topic!

 

Kye..

 

i had a few dogs i could communicate with just by glancing one way or another, or pointing at them or at a spot where they needed to be. we were very in tune to each other.

 

my bulldog bitch seems to guess my every move pretty accurately. i dont feed scraps from the table.... i usually wait till dinner is finished, scraps go in a bucket while cleaning, then later they are given with the dogs regular meal. i find it cuts down on begging at the table..... one evening i decided to skip my rule of no scraps. i didnt do anything. i just thought in my head while eating "i'm going to let Kaydee have the rest of my dinner." No sooner had i finished thinking that, still chewing my steak like normal ... She got up and walked over to me and sat down and waited for me to put the plate in front of her! Now, some might think "well she was probably just telling you she wanted to go out." No. my husband had just left the table a moment before, he went outside to smoke, and she normally follows him. but not that time. no she knew she was getting steak for dinner and wasnt going to let me change my mind lol!

 

And you mentioned cancer sniffing dogs, thats funny because that project was started in Tallahasse, where i live lol it was a hairbrained scheme at the time, but actually saved the life of a cop when he finally relented to being sniffed by a dog! amazing stuff eh?

 

and yeah about storm predictions..... any time severe weather is coming our way i get totally sick to my stomach, almost viral depending on how bad the storm is. i've been like that since i was a kid. everyone just thought i was terrified of bad weather because i would "hide" lol no, i was ill!!

 

 

anyway, dogs and ESP - i have book around here somewhere about psychic animals... its even called Psychic Animals... has a lot of interesting theories, facts, and stories. Setters, supposedly, are the ones best at communicating mentally with their owners. but some dogs are just good guessers. they wait for a reaction, the smallest hint of what you might do next. tone of voice, speech pattern, etc. they smell fear after all, why shouldnt they be able to guess your next move? thats purely predatory. its an instinct to guess the next move of their prey.. not that dogs see us as prey, but they probably still use those same instincts.

[shepp 2,285]

Well you get those dogs kept by people with epilepsy, to let them know when a fit is coming.

The dogs can tell before the owner.

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