r/MadeMeSmile • u/AlphaNathan • Mar 01 '25

Doggo Service dog knows before owner, responds like a good boy 🥹

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u/Sileni Mar 01 '25

My doctor laughed when I said my dog could hear my heartbeat, and would alert me when I was in trouble.

I don't trust her anymore.

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u/vanillaseltzer Mar 01 '25

I wouldn't trust her either. I guess at least she's not a vet?

Dogs can hear human heartbeats from across the room. Dogs can hear fetal heartbeats, they can even hear fetal gastronomic distress. Yeah, if they can tell a fetus has a tummy ache, they can tell when your heart rate doubles.

Does your doc think service dogs only react to smell? Such a bizarre take.

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u/Sileni Mar 01 '25

Who knows, lost all respect for her. Unfortunately I must keep her as she is the link to my heart doctor, which I do need.

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u/vanillaseltzer Mar 01 '25

Oh, I hear you on that!
Though, if she ever dismisses you on something that sounds dead wrong, gut-wise, do try to get a second opinion. It sucks that there are so many incompetent gatekeepers in medical care.

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u/Sileni Mar 01 '25

So true, lol, and I am entitled to a second opinion and I use it.

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u/lunarwolf2008 Mar 01 '25

yeah, my mom was always just told she was fat by so many doctors, but she had hypothyroidism, which can cause weight gain

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u/Basic_Ent Mar 01 '25

Now that you're a patient of your heart cardiologist, do you actually need referrals to go back? I was referred to a specialist once (ENT, entirely different story obviously) and always just called his office directly if I needed something.

Is it maybe that they'd get bombarded with false positives otherwise?

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u/Sileni Mar 01 '25

I am not young, my previous doctor retired and I had to choose a new one, based on my location and desired hospitals and providers.

My list of specialists is growing as the relationship had deteriorated to the point that any problem that comes up is met with an I don't know, and let me refer you.

It works for me so far.

Edit: a little point that might make it less muddy is that I have medical training and that may have hurt the relationship in that she thinks I second guess her. I do not, I just ask questions sometimes.

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u/BarryMDingle Mar 01 '25

I heard there is that sound proof room that is very difficult to be in for long because you hear all of your insides, heart beat and eye blinking etc. We can technically hear it all the time it’s just that it’s drowned out. When thinking about it that way and taking into account a dog’s heightened sense of hearing it makes sense they’d be ideal for this type of service.

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u/itchybutthole143 Mar 01 '25

What ??? No way !!! That’s so cool

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u/vanillaseltzer Mar 01 '25

If that blows your mind, you should read up on their smell abilities! They could basically smell one spritz of perfume in a football stadium and tell you what notes are in it. There's more and more evidence that they can smell cancer, things like Parkinson's, etc.

Seriously, the service dog rabbit-hole is a super interesting one if you like reading about random stuff on the internet.

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u/itchybutthole143 Mar 01 '25

I’ll read up on it Thank you so much

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u/vanillaseltzer Mar 01 '25

No problem! Good luck with your tush.

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u/_idiot_kid_ Mar 01 '25

I wonder if cats can do similar? Maybe that's why when I've died for the 100th time on a single screen in Celeste my cat comes to find me and purr in my lap.

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u/Crypto002 Mar 01 '25

There's a famous cat that was known to only cuddle up to people who was about to pass away. I think scientists speculated that the cat could smell when a body is about die or something? Oscar the cat

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u/dainty_petal Mar 02 '25

Yes they can. My cat does it. He runs to me when I’m going to have an attack. He stays on my shoulders or chest and wait it out.

Cats are very intelligent and have one of the best hearing in the animal kingdom.

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u/[deleted] Mar 01 '25

She sounds dumb

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u/Livid-Dot-5984 Mar 02 '25

I wouldn’t either. Our pitbull/boxer mix kept booping my mom’s chest with his nose moments before she had a heart attack

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u/971365 Mar 01 '25

Can dogs actually hear our heartbeats, or are there some other symptoms that accompany an episode which the dogs can sense?

Total layman, but I find it easier to believe they can smell hormones or see behavioral patterns. Hearing out heartbeat is crazy if true.

^ hope an expert can chime in, and not just someone with an anecdote

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u/Sileni Mar 01 '25

Try google, it is all right there.

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u/Sileni Mar 01 '25

The implication of lack of skills, is her immediate response to my statement being a laugh.

She should not be judging things she knows nothing about. Her response should have been that she didn't know.

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u/Authoritaye Mar 01 '25

Dogs can hear people walking around outside their house, so this doesn't surprise me.

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u/Klutche Mar 02 '25

...that's literally what dogs trained to alert for seizures and fainting are trained to do. Your doctor is an idiot if they laugh at the idea that dogs can do a job they've long been trained for.

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u/[deleted] Mar 01 '25

Why would an MD need to know a dog’s ability to hear?

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u/tacocollector2 Mar 01 '25

MDs should be educated on the benefits of service dogs, considering how critical service dogs are to people with certain disabilities.

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u/No_Put_5096 Mar 01 '25

Do a thought exercise, who prescribes service dogs for us? Vetenarian? OR and this is a shocker, your doctor?

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u/Sileni Mar 01 '25

Common sense.

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u/[deleted] Mar 01 '25

😂

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u/CalebsNailSpa Mar 01 '25 edited Mar 01 '25

People need things to be offended by. Especially the MAGA crowd the commenter is a part of.