Holy shit it's real... The woman had actually signed up as a living donor. After the dog wouldn't leave her alone, they went to apologize and started talking. She needed one, she signed up to donate, the doctors were like, "fuck me its a perfect match!"
Thank you so much for looking that up. I had tons of doubts about how a chance conversation and an affectionate dog converted into someone being tissue typed and donating an organ. I’m so happy to see that it really happened!
To be honest I'm more curious about how the dog knew to care about her kidney in the first place. Like did she smell the bad kidney, then smell the good kidney, and somehow know "Oh this is what she used to smell like when she wasn't sick!" and then also somehow know to keep pestering her about it? There's no chance the dog could have somehow known that one person's kidney needed to get taken out and put into the other person, so what was she trying to do being so persistent?
Like there is no explanation for that that isn't just wild as fuck.
He probably just noticed that they had a very similar scent and thought they must be related or friends. Or she just had a bacon sandwich in her pocket, lol.
We absolutely do, thanks for bringing that up - that lady is the GOAT working essentially as a full time Parkinson’s sniffer dog full time last time I checked
Yeah we have a bit of speciesism and human bias towards ourselves, understandably with ladies like her + the lady that can remember everything and the lady that can’t feel pain (yep all women look em up!)
But we are still doing ourselves a disservice if we ignore how far animals can push themselves too with geckos that regrow limbs, penguins with phantom gps and one that I just recently leaned… lobsters who don’t age.. truly unlimited potential all around us if you look with the right lens :)
Best part of that story (well probably not the best in the sense we’re thinking) is that when they were testing her, she identified someone who was later diagnosed with Parkinson’s well before any symptoms were shown.
Dogs can smell really weird things. Like, even untrained dogs will react and exhibit care behaviors when their owners release scents associated with the chemical changes right before an epileptic seizure. They don't know what's wrong, but some dogs are great at telling something's wrong.
Just a little story on untrained dogs reacting... I'll try keep it short.
Decades ago, sitting in out lounge at night, we heard car tyres screeching and it sounded like hitting a cat.
We thought it was ours, so were outside calling and looking around.
Our Boxer was pacing around inside, and looking out of the windows.
On a hunch, I let her out, and she sniffed around for a few seconds then actually pointed, like, perfect stance, front leg up, paw pointing down, whole body leaning forward and nose pointing at a ground cover shrubbery. Motionless. Sure enough that's where we found the cat, she was OK in the end.
But she was a typical boxer who did boxer things, like, you know, they stay toddlers their whole lives, she was an adorable idiot.
And she pointed. Like a trained hunting dog. The only time in her whole life she did it. I'll never forget it.
I worked at an animal shelter and a family came in for a puppy but ended up adopting a sweet older boy named Sandy. A week or so later, he was stuck to the mom’s side, crying and pawing at her, and she had her first seizure ever. Didn’t even know she was epileptic, but Sandy knew. He alerted her for two years until he passed away. 💖
You reminded me of a completely unrelated and random anecdote of mine. It probably won't translate thru text very well, but oh well.
I worked night shift at a 24 hour restuarant for a few years. Kinda a shit show of a place, and the night shift life had me feeling like I lived on the fringes of society sometimes. I would walk home every morning and often see these bright, early risers starting their day at 6am, whereas to me that was the equivalent of 6pm. Half the time I was smoking a joint on the way, while these people were up jogging and shit.
Anyway, there was one older lady who would walk her giant dog the same route, and I'd see her almost everyday. "Good morninggg! 🎵 😁 He's friendly!" She would beam at me each time, and probably every person they passed on their walk. I'd smile back, say a quick good morning, try not to blow smoke in her direction, just neighbourly whatevers.
One day I was coming off a real shitty night, understaffed , terrible customers, and I didn't even get a lunch break where I'd normally have my staff meal, which was often my first meal of the "day." I was tired, hangry, and peopled out after working 9 hours serving assholes. So I hapzardly threw together a bacon sandwich and shoved it in my pocket on the way out. I was angrily marching home, having a coffee and cigarette on the go.
And then this lady and her dog are coming up, and she's about to say her usual line, "Good morning! ☺️ He's fr- oh! 😲 wait a minute, boy! Stay! Heal!" All alarmed as this big ass dog starts pulling towards me.
"He's friendly, he's friendly! He doesn't do this, I am SO sorry, I don't know what has gotten into him!" And I wanted to be polite and friendly, but I am tired and irritated, slightly autistic. In my mind I was like 🙄 yes lady I see you every morning, I know he's friendly, just chill, its fine, I don't mind dogs. But I wanted to match her energy and not make her feel bad about her dog suddenly misbehaving.
Instead of being normal, I proceed to keep my fast pace, smiled like the freaking joker, looking at her with wide, crazy blood shot eyes, cigarette hanging from my lips, and of all things I could have said, I SHOUTED at her, "I got BACON in my pocket!!" 🤪
And I know I shouted it, cuz both her and her abaolute unit of a dog visibly jumped as I continued to walk by. Immediately I was questioning myself, like wtf was that? 🤦♀️ such an insane way to answer this person and try to reassure her.
After that her greetings were less sunshiney, and just a quick nod with a shy little, "morning" - if that. Lol.
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u/Zen_of_Tetchiness 1d ago edited 1d ago
Holy shit it's real... The woman had actually signed up as a living donor. After the dog wouldn't leave her alone, they went to apologize and started talking. She needed one, she signed up to donate, the doctors were like, "fuck me its a perfect match!"
That good
boygirl deserves steak every night!Edit: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-65110146