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Originally Posted by Cdn1050

That's a good question. I saw on the news a few years ago, a lady who had an epileptic seizure. Her Rottweiler dialed 911, barked into the phone until medics arrrived. Then the dog unlocked & opened the door to allow the ambulance medics in. How does the dog know to do this?

You can't keep test training the dog by making people have seizures for the dog to learn this behaviour. I would think that in the middle of a person having a seizure, there would be no time for training. As that person would need medical assistance asap.

It would all depend on, how many people are around the person in need when he/she is having a seizure; one to take care of the person and another to teach the dog to use the phone and what else to do!

By the way:
There must have been a bunch of people around to tape the scenario you talk about. So if a person can just stand and film a person having an epileptic seizure and a dog calling 911, how come you don’t think there once were people around to teach the dog what to do???????????????

However I find it hard to see… (no matter if the dog was trained or not) how a Rottweiler nose or paw can hit one of those small number buttons on a phone!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (But I know, you can make short cuts on modern phones…. just hit one accidental botton and hold it just a bit and you get the number that was programmed for the action "hit and hold"!

PS:
Having epileptic seizures normally don't need medical assistance…

(but perhaps the patient needs assistance when he/she wakes up; to go back home/ to go to bed (now and then) yes she/he needs medical care because of falling, but that is considered a side effect to epilepsy)