I did not agree with the view the dog wouldn't help you if you were in danger since your experiments were FLAWED...seriously flawed.
You can't fake a heart attack or seizure and expect the dog to be fooled. When stuff like this happens chemicals in your body as well as your scent changes for that short time and the dog picks up on this and responds to the change accordingly. The owners aka actors pretending to keel over and pass out obviously wasn't fooling their pets...now if one of them actually DID have a problem, you'd see a change.
If you ever knew someone who was epileptic and had a dog, before a seizure you notice the dog seems to suddenly get your attention to go somewhere safe or to get your attention in general by barking a moment or so before the seizure starts...you'd know this. I also watched a documentary regarding this matter and they were interviewing a person who has seizures and during said interview about 30 seconds before she started to convulse and fell on the floor the dog was jumping and barking TRYING to get her to go on the couch or somewhere more suitable instead of having to fall on the floor.
Fear and other emotions also changes the scent our dogs pick up on us and dogs will all respond accordingly depending on the situation. When I'm really distressed and upset, my dog picks up on this and wants to make sure I'm okay. I know other dogs who pick up on the scent of emotional changes.
Overall I think you need to try better experiments and do more research before concluding something like this. If the experiments were flawed, so are the results, and that makes you wrong.
You can't fake a heart attack or seizure and expect the dog to be fooled. When stuff like this happens chemicals in your body as well as your scent changes for that short time and the dog picks up on this and responds to the change accordingly. The owners aka actors pretending to keel over and pass out obviously wasn't fooling their pets...now if one of them actually DID have a problem, you'd see a change.
If you ever knew someone who was epileptic and had a dog, before a seizure you notice the dog seems to suddenly get your attention to go somewhere safe or to get your attention in general by barking a moment or so before the seizure starts...you'd know this. I also watched a documentary regarding this matter and they were interviewing a person who has seizures and during said interview about 30 seconds before she started to convulse and fell on the floor the dog was jumping and barking TRYING to get her to go on the couch or somewhere more suitable instead of having to fall on the floor.
Fear and other emotions also changes the scent our dogs pick up on us and dogs will all respond accordingly depending on the situation. When I'm really distressed and upset, my dog picks up on this and wants to make sure I'm okay. I know other dogs who pick up on the scent of emotional changes.
Overall I think you need to try better experiments and do more research before concluding something like this. If the experiments were flawed, so are the results, and that makes you wrong.