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I’m pretty sure they’re trained to respond exclusively to their owner.
I’ve heard of a heart dog on a plane that alerted on the person next to the owner, but I don’t imagine it happens frequently. The dog is trained to focus on their owner.Â
Whether or not a service dog alerts to another person’s medical problem depends on the dog’s individual training and the specific situation.
I did see a video recently of a diabetes dog alerting his owner’s sibling, so they checked him, and the kid’s blood sugar was like one gram below the normal range.
I live in a nursing home and had a pet cat who coincidentally alerted and responded to my nightmares, flashbacks, anxiety attacks, autistic meltdowns, dehydration, asthma attacks and heart arrhythmias. Of course, service CATS aren’t a thing, but as a pet he was remarkable. He would alert to dehydration only in other people. Basically, if he started yowling at them after having given them a thorough sniff, they needed to chug a bottle of water. Following hydration, he would immediately resume ignoring their very existence.
My dog alerted to my Dad’s cancer years before the doctors. He would get up and look alarmed every time my Dad coughed. My Dad had lung cancer. He wasn’t trained, just knew something wasn’t right.
There was a story of a cat in a nursing home that would go into rooms where the person was about to pass away.
I had a friend who lived at their parents w their sibling who has a service animal for seizures that tends to alert their owner at signs of heightened anxiety since that can be a sign of its owners seizures and that dog alerted to anyone who had anxiety around it. So it frequently alerted to me/my friends since we’re all very anxious 24/7. 😅😅 God bless it, it just really wanted to keep anyone from having medical issues
My brother has a dog and she can detect his incoming seizure 4-5 minutes before. She wasn’t trained to do it. She just knows. We don’t know how or why. It may be the way he smells or something. She goes batshit. She’s never alerted to anyone else’s medical events but she absolutely would if she were near them when they were about to seize. It’s incredible
I’ve experienced this, my friend’s service dog alerted me of something. I had a pulmonary embolism around this time. I’d experience episodes of tachycardia and fainting. I ran into my friend after class once and his dog broke focus to come and jump on me until I sat down. Checked my watch and my heart rate was above 130. She prevented me from potentially having my blood pressure dip and fainting
My daughter’s dog alerted to my son-in-law’s impending asthma attack. Unfortunately he got confused at that point and gave *her* the inhaler.
My dog isn’t a service dog, but when a gallstone put me into liver failure he seemed like he knew before I noticed any symptoms. All morning he’d been pacing, panting, and would barely leave my side. Even when my partner fed him, he dragged his food bowl over to eat next to me.
My brother’s (at the time) girlfriend had a dog that’s trained to alert for sugar level crashes. He did alert on me, once. It was a false alarm and he never did it again.