A pet owner thought her rescue dog, Sunny, was just acting weird when the animal started acting strange around her. But it turns out the pooch was trying to warn her about a major hidden health problem.
Pet owner Kenzie Kinney Seymour had an aneurysm in her brain. She just didn't know it at the time. According to Seymour, her dog started acting "antsy" around her. Sunny wouldn't stay away from her neck. The dog would sit behind her and rest its head on the shoulder of the pet owner. At the time, Seymour bemusingly posted a video of the interaction to social media.
"She could sense something was wrong," she told Newsweek. "She wouldn't stop whining, licking excessively, hovering and laying behind me, propping herself on my back, neck, and shoulders."
A day later, doctors diagnosed her with a brain aneurysm. She explained, "The day before I was diagnosed with a brain aneurysm, my dog kept climbing behind me and wouldn't leave my neck alone."
Pet Owner And Dog
Apparently, Sunny has a hidden talent for identifying blood clots in the pet owner.
"She does the same thing with my leg that has permanent chronic blood clot damage," Kenzie explained. "It is always nerve-wracking when Sunny gets so antsy like that, because it's not normal for her and I know she is sensitive to my health problems."
A brain aneurysm is fairly serious. According to Mayo Clinic, "Experts think brain aneurysms form and grow because blood flowing through the blood vessel puts pressure on a weak area of the vessel wall. This can increase the size of the brain aneurysm. If the brain aneurysm leaks or ruptures, it causes bleeding in the brain, known as a hemorrhagic stroke."
The pet owner plans to see a neurologist. So it remains to be seen what her treatment will be. But others have pointed out that dogs are very observant to health issues.
"I had a similar experience recently with a non-trained dog alerting to me," one person wrote. "She was able to predict an episode of syncope before I even felt it and potentially saved me from what could have been hours of coming in and out of consciousness."
Another wrote, "I swear my mother's dog could smell my brain tumor growing and didn't want to die because she knew I was sick. Dogs are beautiful."
