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- the canine sense of smell
- Dogs detect danger
- Do dogs detect spirits?
- experiments
- What can we deduce?
It is known around the world that dogs, like the vast majority of animals, are able to sense catastrophic phenomena that humans are not able to detect despite our technology.
Dogs have intrinsic faculties, that is, totally natural, that exceed our comprehension. No doubt your smell, hearing and other senses can explain some things incomprehensible to the naked eye.
Are you wondering if dogs see spirits? Keep reading this PeritoAnimal article and find out!
the canine sense of smell
It is known that through their sense of smell, dogs detect the mood of people. The clearest example is the typical situation in which a quiet dog suddenly becomes aggressive toward a person for no apparent reason. When we try to find out the cause of this reaction, it turns out that the person the dog has been aggressive with has a huge fear of dogs. So we say that the dog smelled fear.
Dogs detect danger
Another quality dogs have is that detect latent threats around us.
I once had an Afghan Hound, Naím, who couldn't stand any drunken people approaching us. When I walked it at night, if at 20 or 30 meters it detected a drunk type, it would immediately jump to its feet on its hind legs while emitting a long, hoarse and menacing bark. The drunk individuals were aware of the presence of Naím and went about his life.
I never trained Naím to act in this way. Even a puppy already reacted instinctively in this way. It is defensive attitude it is common among dogs, who react to the presence of people they consider conflicting and a potential threat to the family members they live with.
Do dogs detect spirits?
We are unable to determine whether dogs see spirits. Personally, I don't know whether spirits exist or not. However, I believe in good and bad energies. And these second types of energies are clearly picked up by dogs.
A clear example comes after earthquakes, when canine rescue teams are used to locate survivors and corpses among the ruins. Ok, these are trained dogs, but the way to "mark" presence of a wounded and a corpse is totally different.
When they detect a cornered survivor, the dogs anxiously and effusively warn their handlers by barking. They point with their snouts putting it where the ruins cover the wounded. However, when they detect a corpse, they raise the hair on their backs, moan, turn over, and even on many occasions defecate in fear. Of course, this kind of vital energy that dogs perceive is totally different between life and death.
experiments
the psychologist Robert Morris, an investigator of paranormal phenomena, carried out an experiment during the 1960s in a Kentucky house in which bloody deaths had occurred and it was rumored that it was haunted by ghosts.
The experiment consisted of entering separately, in a room where they could commit a crime with a dog, a cat, a rattlesnake and a mouse. This experiment was filmed.
- The dog entered with its caretaker, and just three feet in, the dog ruffled its fur, grunted and ran out of the room, refusing to enter it again.
- The cat entered its handler's arms. After a few seconds the cat climbed onto its handler's shoulders, slashing his back with its nails. The cat immediately jumped to the ground and took refuge under an empty chair. In that position he blew hostilely into another empty chair for several minutes. After some time the cat was removed from the room.
- The rattlesnake adopted a defensive/aggressive posture, as if facing imminent danger even though the room was empty. His attention was directed to the empty chair that frightened the cat.
- The mouse did not react in any special way. However, we are all aware of the reputation rats have for predicting shipwrecks and being the first to abandon ship.
Robert Morris' experiment was repeated in another room of the house table in which no fatal event had taken place. The four animals had no anomalous reactions.
What can we deduce?
What can perhaps be concluded is that nature has endowed animals in general, and dogs in particular, with a capacity that is beyond our current knowledge.
What happens is that the dog's sense of smell, and also its ear, is tremendously superior to the same senses humans have. Therefore, they capture through their privileged senses these strange events... or else, they have some superior capacity that we don't yet know and that allows them to see what we can't see.
If any reader has already found that your pet has had some kind of experience related to this topic, please let us know so we can publish it.
