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Times Pets
Deepak Rajeev

Why Your Dog Knows You’re Not Okay Before Anyone Else

There are times when you feel slightly off, tired, anxious, or unwell, and before you even understand it yourself, your dog is already behaving differently. It may stay closer, stare more, or quietly sit beside you without being called. This reaction is not coincidence or imagination. Science increasingly shows that dogs are able to detect subtle changes in humans far earlier than we consciously register them. What feels like intuition is actually a powerful combination of biology, observation, and a bond built over thousands of years.

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