I saw a strange thing tonight, I was at an outdoor concert

[doc03]

and there was a guy there with 3 German Shepherds. These doge were therapy dogs that he takes to nursing homes and hospitals to visit sick people. The dogs were just laying there and many people were stopping to pet the dogs and asking questions about them. This one lady came walking up and the dogs jumped to their feet and started barking at her tugging at their leach, the owner had to scold them to settle them down. The strange thing is the lady works out at the health center I go to and a couple weeks ago she had some kind of a mental break down at the gym. Somehow the dogs seemed to sense something about her as she approached them.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

1. Trust the animals -

they know.

My best friend's father died a few weeks ago. A few days after he got home from tending to his Dad, a friend came over with his dog, a pooch who loves my best friend. But, that day, the dog just stared at a spot right over my friend's left shoulder. Didn't bark, didn't run to him, nothing. No wagging tail. Just the dog staring at a spot only he could see.

When his father was dying, he turned to my friend, and, at that point, blind, he stared at that same spot over my friend's left shoulder.

I say the dog was seeing my friend's Dad, who was staying with his son until he was sure he was all right.

Next time the dog came by, he was all over my friend, and I told him that he was doing just fine, his Dad knew that, too.....................

[doc03]

3. It's strange I have heard somehow dogs

can sense a person has cancer. Most dogs are friendly to me but for some reason they hate my older brother. For some reason they didn't like that lady, there is nothing unusual about her appearance at all. Maybe they see something that we can't like that dog did with your friend.

[NJCher]

4. there was a story on 60 Minutes

Or Dateline, one of those shows--and they have trained dogs to sniff out cancer. I'd like an update on that story. It was amazing--I think it first ran about six years ago.

Cher

[Tangerine LaBamba]

2. Dupe - delete..............

[Orrex]

5. The "health center" thing is a sham. Her pockets were stuffed full of bacon.

[omega minimo]

6. I worked in a business that had a cat

that could sense people immediately. If someone entered and the cat headed for the back, that person turned out to be difficult or unpleasant. He also chose me out of all the applicants for the job. :hi:

[TreasonousBastard]

7. Remember this story about the "Death Cat"?

Nursing home cat can sense death?
Thu Jul 26, 2007 6:39pm EDT

Do not ask for whom the cat meows
By Julie Steenhuysen

CHICAGO (Reuters) - When Oscar the Cat visits residents of the Steere House Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Providence, Rhode Island, the staff jumps into action -- Oscar can sense within hours when someone is about to die.

In his two years living in Steere's end-stage dementia unit, Oscar has been at the bedside of more than 25 residents shortly before they died, according to Dr. David Dosa of Brown University in Providence.

He wrote about Oscar in the New England Journal of Medicine.

"It's not that the cat is consistently there first," Dr. Joan Teno, a professor of community health at Brown University, who sees patients in the unit. "But the cat always does manage to make an appearance, and it always seems to be in the last two hours."

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http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSN2531239020070726