A dog owner claims that her two pups saved her life after her cat accidentally turned the stove on, causing a house fire that she hadn’t noticed.
In a post shared on TikTok in March, under the username kellyfisher49, the poster can be seen lying in bed, unaware of what’s going on in the kitchen, while her pups, Gertie a boxer/Labrador, and her brother Walter a Labrador mix, try their best to alert her about the situation.
The dogs are visibly trying to tell her something, whining and refusing to leave her alone as she tries to understand what they want.
A caption explains: “The dogs were trying to tell me something was wrong!! I didn’t know! There was a fire starting on the stove! The cat turned the stove top on and a baking sheet was bright red and smoking. They wouldn’t let me fall asleep!”
We may not be able to smell some things, but nothing gets past a dog’s nose undetected. According to the American Kennel Club (AKC), dogs’ noses are at least 100,000 times more sensitive than ours.
While working alongside humans for centuries, dogs have been trained to use their noses in many ways that can be helpful to us. They can smell gasoline, bombs, drugs, and human bodies.
They can also be trained to detect diseases like malaria and Parkinson’s, as well as a variety of cancers, including ovarian and prostate, melanoma, and lung cancer.
The video has gone viral on social media, so far receiving more than 2.2 million views and 206,000 likes on the platform.
One user, Krystal Prosser, commented: “He’s like you’re over here calling me fat while I’m trying to tell you I need to live to see my next meal.”
Ash-bash added: “My husband’s pittie woke him up in the middle of the night freaking out and jumping on him. the room was orange, so he looked out the window and there was a wall of flames. they lost everything but she saved his life. I met him six months later.”
Newsweek has reached out to kellyfisher49 for comment via TikTok. We could not verify the details of the video or situation.
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