For the past two days I've been flat out with an abscess on my tooth. Thankfully my dentist has sorted it for me today but my dogs have all been so very quiet and passive. Taking it in turns to lay next to me on the sofa licking my face and being very attentive. Ive never seen them all behave like this at the same time before. My OH tended to their needs but as soon as they could, they came straight back to me. I have slept for most of the day and it was almost like they had devised a sitting rota between them.
I never realised how intuitive and loyal they could be.

> I never realised how intuitive and loyal they could be.

I have always found them to be very intuitive too. I am pretty sure they can smell or feel inflammation and injuries - I've had a dog sniff a swollen, bad bruise and focus in on it straight away. I also put my foot down a rabbit hole a few months ago, and had a very painful swollen foot for a while - one of mine could certainly tell when he sniffed it, there was no broken skin or anything much to be seen.

Same dog will also sniff out any cut or scratch and if allowed, try to clean it. I initially thought he was attracted to the smell of the blood or any weeping but it can't just be that, as I injured my hand quite badly last year and he ignored the blood on the floor, just wanted to inspect my injury (gawd I sound like a walking disaster area!).

I was ill before Christmas and my normally, quite demanding bunch behaved like angels. They lay at my side, and snuggled next to me, let me sleep, none of the usual barks when the postman comes. I think they know when we are not feeling well.
Mine also let me know when my husband is on his way home, long before his car turns into the road. He often works away from home and irregular hours, so it can not be down to knowing the routine as their isn't one. And more often than not I don't know what time he is going to get home, so not picking anything up from me, but they always start to get restless and whinge a bit and sure enough within 1/2 - 3/4 of an hour my husband appears. 

>(gawd I sound like a walking disaster area!).

ROFL!!!   I wish you'd take more water with it!  :-)  :-) 

Yesp mine are very good, even mad puppy if I am under the weather.

> ROFL!!! I wish you'd take more water with it!

:) :)

Well not being funny but both my dogs were present and neither showed any interest in the claret on the floor, just were worried about me. The paramedic came and asked for the dogs to be put in another room - one went happily in, but the other refused to leave my side... which was quite unexpected and the para understood and let her stay while he treated me.

I have not got any experience with dogs with injuries, but I have with pregnancy. My boyfriend at the time I got pregnant lived with his mum who had a yorkie (miniture). Tiny dog with LOTS of attittude. And if I am honest quite aggressive. No body from the outside or anyone who lived in the house could really stroke this dog. Or go near her 'mummy' (my bf's mum)at all, she would curl up on her mums shoulder and dare any1 to go near them. When my bf's mum was out the house the dog would be in the bedroom and would not move untill she came home. With me she treated me the same as any other, I could not go near, not even with a treat. Then I could not understand why this little dog suddenly started following me everywhere, and jumping on my shoulder. She would cry outside my bf's bedroom when i wernt there on a night, when her 'mummy' was out she would not be hiding in the bedroom she would be sat with me, and even when her 'mummy' was there she would most be sat with me. Nobody could believe it. Then I found out I was 3months pregnant :o  But this dog became my best frind from then on and even when me nd my bf got our own place she would often come over for a sleep over, as happy as you like as if it was her usual home :') sadly when me nd my then bf split I hardly saw her again and now very sadly past away last year :'( bless her heart :'(

Hmmmmmm

Well about 3 months ago i had a really bad case of flu, when i started to recover after days in bed i needed provisions so ordered online for basics.

It arrived and as i was pulling a loaf of of the carrier it was torn from my hand and run away with. She would never ever consider this if i was well she was taking advantage and im sure she thought it was funny.

Then she went in for a TTA a few weeks ago, i had taken her in the garden for a wee on lead as advised when my BF came out the house and tripped up which made her leap about 6ft in the process she fractured 2 of my fingers. I went straight to the hospital after 8 hrs of being in A&E (FRIDAY NIGHT)
I came home and i have never seen her look so upset in all the years i have known her. Im certain she realised that she had hurt me.

> I came home and i have never seen her look so upset in all the years i have known her. Im certain she realised that she had hurt me.

I strongly believe that dogs don't do guilt (as we understand it) but they are certainly capable of knowing the difference between a deliberate action, and an accident. We have all known when we have accidentally knocked our dogs on the nose, but we then apologise and made up. They would very likely appease one another in the same circumstances. If we take on board that dogs know how to say sorry to one another, then of course they can learn how to say sorry to people, and understand when people are apologising to them.

You only have to meet a few rescue dogs that have been deliberately struck and abused, to see how they react to an 'accidental' knock or blow.... as opposed to a human directed punishment.

To expand on that... I have had my rescue girl for almost a year now and she is the most loving dog on earth.... but sometimes I see indications that she was probably trained with an e-collar in her past.

My parents were in a bad rta years ago & our normally scatty dog was very gentle & concerned when they came home from hospital.

I had flu after Christmas & felt awful but the dogs were like "c'mon, you haven't got time to be ill we want our walk NOW". 

I suffered from depression 4 years ago when my hubby died and my beautiful gsd would not leave my side. I spent hours thinking about who I could safely leave my dogs with, with the intention of settling them with someone else and then joining my OH ( probably an overdose) She would just sit with her head on my knee staring into my eyes for hours. I am sure she could read all the mess in my brain and the look on her face was so caring, in fact it was with her help I overcame the darkness surrounding me, it was her that made me realise that life goes on. She was the best nurse I could have had and helped me far more than any medication.

She went to the rainbow bridge last March and I don't think I will ever love another dog as much as her.

arrrrr sillysue, that brought a tear to my eye. Thank the world you had your loving dog with you, helping you through a time like that. What an amazing and precious girl you had :')

Yes when I have been unwell or upset my lot will all want to be as close as possible to me, when Lois died suddenly last year the dachsies were very obviously missing her but were more concerned with how I was feeling and cuddling in and giving very gentle kisses.

my husband has an awful lot of drugs to take (the legal kind), and he has to go into hospital every 8-12 weeks for medication to be pumped into him, now when he is starting to get nearer to his time for hospital his akita is very insistant on nudging him and breathing deeply into his skin will lie at his feet and generally be close to him all the time, sometimes he does this and i think he is not due to go into hospital yet and within 24 hours his health has deteriated so much he is in hospital .The days inbetween the dog is his normal self , also my hubby can't feel the cold and can quickly get into difficulty when at night he does not realise he is cold we have a young dog who adores him in the house and she sleeps in the room with us at night and i always play hell about her being in the room with him only in fun though, but now she has pride and place in the room , she woke him up one night constantly licking and licking him until he woke up, his quilt had come off his body and his foot was so cold and his breathing had started to deteriate that she licked and licked him until he woke up and then he asked me for help, usually i hear if he is in difficulty at night and wake up to sort him out, i can't thank her enough she must of realised he was in trouble and kept at him until he woke up.

made me leaky eyed,too,what amazing creatures our dogs are.

I suffer from blackouts. Jade sleeps downstairs but at times she comes and wakens me up by resting her chin on the bed and blowing in my face. Once I am awake she sticks to me like glue and won't let me go back to sleep. After a while we realised that whenever she woke me I would be feeling very unwell and my blood pressure would be really low. It took a while for us to realise that she seems to sense an imminent blackout. Since starting to take notice of her 'warning' we have drastically reduced the number of times I actually lose conciousness.

If I am having a bad run she sleeps wherever I am, but as soon as things settle she goes back to sleeping downstairs.

Absolutely, they always know. :-)

One of my friends dogs had an ear infection and of course as you all know you have to do the mandatory ear drops, well my friend could not get her dog to keep still she had trouble holding him, he would move his head all the time and he would run away the moment he saw the ear drops come out of the cupboard. She was stressing on the phone to me that she could not do it alone, she said more of the ear drop was on the floor than in her dog. :-D  So I told her I would come over to assist and see how she was doing it.

Unfortunately, she slipped on ice and broke her arm that night, I turned up in the morning for tea and sympathy and of course to help with her dog and something unbelievable happened........ She went to get the ear drops and instead of running away her dog went to the rug and lay down on his side whilst she put the ear drops in, neither of us said a word, gave a command or anything, we could not believe it! That dog just knew that she was incapacitated, she thought it might have just been me being there, but I told her I wasn't that good! :-D

In the evening he did the same and continued all the way through the treatment, I've never seen a dog do that ever!

As usual my dogs never do the expected lol, when I'm ill they steer clear, I'm sure they think they might catch what ever I've got !.

Even when I fall, they just turn round with a " oh for god's sake, get up woman your embarrassing us " look.

Now if they're ill or injured, that's an entirely different kettle of fish, then it's " mummy mummy mummy, I need you ! " little rat bags lol.