Comments on: Friday Happy Hour: Amazing Pet Tricks

By: Lauren

Lauren — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 15:00:00 +0000

My dog, and his mother, have uncanny abilities to sniff out tumors. When they sense cancer they try to be with the person as much as possible, ignoring everyone else, and they lie down on or lick at the area where the tumor is. We noticed this behavior first with my grandmother, and when we saw that my mom’s friend was getting the same treatment, it wasn’t much of a shock to learn she had also developed a rather large tumor.

By: Mory

Mory — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 21:49:45 +0000

This is for “7″. You are very short-sighted and rigid.

Animals have powers we don’t–or at least we have lost with the advent of “civilization”. Simple technologies such as clocks and calendars have robbed us of the ability to tell time by the position of the sun and a sense of when the seasons will change.

I feel sorry for you–you have obvioulsly never had a pet to whom you were close. I’v had dogs and cats all my life, and they understand what I’m saying. They understand some words, but they can also sense when I’m feeling bad either physically or emotionally. They also know when something is necessary.

I’ve tried to crate them during the day without success. However, when we were staying with friends after Katrina, they didn’t fuss at all at being crated when we left the house. Apparently, they knew it was necessary and didn’t cut up like they would at home.

I’ve also had dogs understand what I’m saying, even though they had never heard me put those particular words together. I could tell Fonzie to go get Pepper’s ball and give it to her (they were both avid ball chasers, but Pepper was getting old and blind) and she would–dropping her ball, getting Pepper’s and dropping it in front of her, then coming to me and giving me her ball to throw.

Yes, the rat psychologists and behavioral “experts” say this isn’t possible–but then I doubt that they spend as much time with their subjects as I have with my dogs. You don’t communicate well with any animal unless there is a strong bond between you and the animal.

By: Sue

Sue — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 18:02:30 +0000

My cockatiel, who is situated in the back of the house, will chirp VERY loudly if someone is walking up the front walk. She’ll know someone is approaching the house before my dog does. She can’t see to the front, nor can she hear- it’s about 100 yards away.

That’s all that bird is good for.

By: heather

heather — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 07:43:34 +0000

If you consider clearing a room in half a second whenever someone sneezes, then my cats are quite talented.

By: linabeena

linabeena — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 21:58:54 +0000

I don’t think it’s the sound of the car engine when pet owners come home, it must be the *smell*. Or some other uncanny ability like x-ray vision. My cat Bella runs like MAD to the front door when my boyfriend comes over (he doesn’t live with me so he comes over at different times, and sometimes not at all) and I live in an apartment building. When I was sitting on the couch, I heard footsteps in the corridor, and I thought it was him, but she didn’t take any notice. Then I heard keys jangle and the neighbor’s door slam shut. Other times, when the lift door opens, she SCRAMBLES to the door to greet/hardly let my boyfriend in through the door. How does she KNOW????

By: amanda

amanda — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 14:32:18 +0000

My dogs Puck and Trouble AND our cat mimi are loving every day but when I got my wisdom teeth pulled i had to stay in bed for a few days since i was all doped up from the vicadin. They never once left the room though, all 3 of them layed on the floor around my bed and refused to go out or eat unless i came with them. It made me feel quite loved.

By: Renee

Renee — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 14:07:57 +0000

Animals have an acute sense of smell. I used to work in a nursing home and learned what “the sweet smell of death” was, it’s something you’ll never forget. I’m sure that an animal can pick up on earlier chemical changes that occur in the human body that we can only detect by instruments or actual observation.

Our five senses are incredibly crude instruments, yet we rely on them to determine “what’s real.” This doesn’t meant that other creatures who have higher sensitivity levels in some of their senses can’t pick up on real (read: scientifically provable) symptoms that humans can’t “read.”

By: Lynnderella

Lynnderella — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 11:15:36 +0000

I used to work in a nursing home that had two resident cats. One was very friendly and you never knew where you’d find her. The other one was a typical cat – aloof unless you had food – and would generally stay over on the west wing of the home. If we ever found him on the east wing (severe dementia and neurological problems) we knew someone was going to be in serious trouble soon. Maybe not always a death, but serious problems like strokes and heart attacks. It’s possible that the cat triggered these attacks, but I prefer to think he could smell/sense/hear a change that indicated upcoming misfortune.

By: Melanie

Melanie — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 23:29:40 +0000

There is a book completely on this subject that I was actually assigned to read for a philosophy class “A Language Older Than Words” by Derrick Jensen. If you are interested I believe the book is out of print now and you’ll probably have to find a used copy.

By: Miss Cellania

Miss Cellania — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 16:15:55 +0000

I had a dog who alerted my husband a minute before I pulled into the driveway after work. It wasn’t at the same time every day. We’re pretty sure she could hear and identify the vehicle sounds from a quarter-like away. There is another green minivan in the neighborhood that fooled the kids when they saw it, but never the dog.