Can a pet smell when you are sick or injured... any ideas or stories???

When I had the collapsed lung, my cat insisted on layiing on that side of my chest.

With my hand injury, she keps smelling below my thumb...and there is a trememdous burning there. The are like four other places on my hand, wrist , arm area that hurt...but the cat is right about this thumb and the nerve below it.

What do you think???

Yes, i believe dogs can,
I accidentally hit my ankle on an electric fence, but didn't make any noise except a sort of *gasp*.

And my dog came Bolting at me, yelping and etc.

Jack.

Yes, pets that are carnivores still retain the ability to smell the difference between illness and health. Predators in the wild devolped this ability as a survival trait (easier to bring down a sick animal than a healthy one) and many illnesses and ailments have a distinct odor to a sensitive nose.

Also, if there is an open wound, the blood is an added attraction to the animal's nose.

hi my friend, yes. animals can senses if we are scare or sick.
luckily u are ok now. thank to ur cat.. do give ur cat a kiss from me! thank u.
they too can hear our tone of voice too.
well they have what we can a six sense..
when i was sick(having a fever and cold sweat) my dog can sense it somehow..
he keep me company when after i take my medicine i go to sleep. and when i wake up to go to the bathroom he too follow me and waited outside until i come out of it..
and when he see me he was happy...
that is why ppl said that dog is a man best friend..
well you too can said that cat is a man best friend too.
please do take care.
good luck to u in everythings u do.
God bless u n ur cat..

YES! I had a bulging disc, stood up and bang, the disc prolapsed. I fell to the ground in extreme pain, my Lab ran! About six hours later having called the Doc in, I managed to get out of bed and stagger to the kitchen. I was stood sipping a cup of tea, in lands my Labrador and promptly threw up on the exact spot I had collapsed in. Then my Mother came in, looked at the vomit and said 'Was that you or the dog?' Since then, my Labrador has refused to get on my bed and is very wary of me, just in case I go down again.
Prior to this she was sleeping with me, but not anymore! Almost as if to say, by jumping up onto your bed, I might cause you back pain! Good Luck

i don't know if its a proven fact or if the cat just knows its owners behaviour pattern.

however, i have epilepsy. when visiting my friend house any time i've had a seizure the cat has jumped behind me, sometimes as much as 15 minutes beforehand! weird huh

Absolutely, there are stories of pets finding cancer that their owner knew nothing about, yet they kept pawing and sometimes desperately digging at the area often causing them to seek medical attention!!
..so evidently the pets know there is even an impending illness and need to care for and possibly they think of attempting to remove the ouchie~ Now they even train and use animals to seek out cancers. They are noted for their 'sixth sense' in so many aspects of life..Honestly, tis something we ourselves do possess yet as humans have evolved (into a lazier and unhealthier lifestyle) they've lost that very ability that animals still possess ...science has shown that animals adapt rapidly and have learned that one of the ways of survival is to keep themselves useful in maintaining the human species and therefore keeping their own species going..(this I just watched last night on PBS in regards to the human/animal species leaning on one another in order to maintain their continuance of evolution..really interesting, yet it saddened me a bit)
But, on the brighter side, I believe there is such a strong bond of love between pets and their adoptive Mom or Dad, that they want to comfort their Mom or Dad, just as we do them!
I know this from the Love I share with my furfaced kidlets..and they're of 3 different species, Dog, Mini-Leopard and pot bellied pig..lol...and they truly are like kids!!

A lady that I work with has epiliepsy, and her dog (Golden Retriever) is trained as a resuce dog - which means that she can somehow sense before my friend goes down - friend says that according to the trainer, our bodies emit certain chemicals prior to and during certain biological events, and the sensitive olfactory systems of our pets can sense the change and react. This particular dog will run behind her and brace to catch her. She will also brace to allow my friend to pull herself up from the floor using her fur as handles.