Do dogs feel their owner?

Many people swear their dogs can sense things before they happen, or sense changes in the environment that humans can't predict!

What feels like intuition to us is mainly due to a dog's exceptional ability to sense scent, but can dogs also read our faces and body language, which helps them detect mood swings?

Here are five surprising things your dog may be sensing, from incoming storms to serious illness.

Dogs sense your mood

• Dogs have an amazing ability to read their owners' body language
• Dogs can use visual cues to tell if we are happy or depressed.
• They are body language experts. Dogs confirm that dogs feel their owner because they can see the size of your pupils, your posture and your smile.
• Dogs evolved to read our emotions because they depend on close emotional relationships with humans to survive.
• Dogs also want to know if we are upset or in a good mood. When we are in a good mood, dogs will often interact with us, seeking food or attention. But if we seem angry or aggressive, this is a warning to stay away.

• Dogs can also sense our increased stress levels by smelling our sweat. However, he believes that they mainly read our mood by observing our body language and facial expressions.

Dogs can feel pregnant

• Dogs can potentially sense that a woman is pregnant or at least that something significant has changed in her body by smelling any change in her hormone levels.
• In addition to scent, dogs can also sense changes in a woman's lifestyle, a pregnant woman and her family adjusting their daily work schedule or rearranging their home.
• This is sure to provoke a reaction in dogs, as they tend to stick to a set routine.

Dogs can predict their owners' health problems

• Some dogs can be trained to detect attacks of disease, alerting humans to their arrival.
• In the case of hypoglycemic episodes caused by low blood glucose levels in people with type 1 diabetes, dogs can smell various chemicals emitted by humans during a hypoglycemic episode.
• In a 2015 study published in the journal Diabetes Therapy, dogs were able to identify hypoglycemia by smelling human skin and breath samples.
• Epileptic seizures are a great mystery because there is no known odor associated with this type of seizure. However, dogs that detect these seizures are responding to higher levels of stress and subtle changes in behavior that may precede a seizure.
• What her dog does is pick up on signs of stress so when you go outside and breathe fresh air you release stress and you don't have seizures so the dog doesn't detect a specific smell associated with epilepsy but in fact it detects stress through body language

Dogs can sense storms

• You will notice that your dog predicts storms before they happen
• How many times have you noticed your dog whining, running and generally panicking, and an hour later you hear the sound of a thunderstorm. The ability of dogs to predict upcoming storms is a well-documented phenomenon. Scientists have a few different theories about dogs' ability to predict weather forecasts.

• Dogs can sense decreases in barometric pressure, and can also sense rising humidity and changes in ozone concentration.

• Scientists also believe that dogs can sense changes in static electricity levels in the atmosphere before a thunderstorm hits.

• In one study, scientists divided dogs into two groups and equipped the first group with anti-static coats, while making the other group without coats.
• Although only 28 dogs participated in the study and it was inconclusive, 70% of the dogs in the group wearing the coats showed a reduction in pre-storm panic behavior compared to only 30% of the dogs in the placebo group.

Dogs may be able to smell cancer

• In a recent study, some dogs were used to screen for cancer
• Dogs have an incredible sense of smell and some can even alert medical personnel and researchers to various cancers.
• In a 2013 study in the journal BMC Cancer, dogs were able to identify ovarian cancer patients by sniffing out chemical compounds in their blood.
• Dogs can also be trained to diagnose lung and breast cancer by smelling a patient's breath.
• According to a 2006 study, common domestic dogs trained only in basic behaviors were trained to breath monsoons.