Sienna the rescue dog – credit, Friends of Campbell County Animal Control, retrieved from Facebook

At an adoption meet and greet event hosted by an animal rescue, a shelter dog performed an extraordinary act of diagnosis without ever being trained to do so.

Between 4 and 5 years of age from unknown breeding, Sienna broke away from the crowd of dogs, appreciative attendees, and familiar caretakers—walking right up to a man at a slight distance from center of the event.

She sat down, looked at him in the eye, put her paw on his leg, and refused to leave his side.

“She sat quietly at his feet, refused to budge, and softly placed her paw on his leg,” the shelter, called Friends of Campbell County Animal Control of Virginia, said in a Facebook post. “It wasn’t a trick. It wasn’t prompted. It was pure intuition.”

She then started pawing at his leg. Despite never receiving training on how to detect medical emergencies, Sienna knew something was wrong.

That intuition proved correct.

Moments later, the shelter wrote, the man’s wife approached and gasped. “My husband is either having a seizure or is about to have one!”

In the comments section of the Facebook post, the man’s husband—Kristen Davis—explained that he had suffered from several myoclonic seizures that morning. But after returning home for a rest, he seemed to have recovered.

Venturing out later that day was too much it seemed, and the seizures returned just as Sienna had predicted, something the rescue described as part of the “magic” and “unspoken wisdom” that shelter dogs carry with them.

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While many in the comments section felt it was destiny that Davis and her husband adopt Sienna, they already have three dogs, and can spare neither room nor resources for a fourth pup.

However, the Friends of Campbell County Animal Control have since shared that readers have covered the cost of a necessary surgery and adoption fees for Sienna—she remains available for a forever home free of any charges.

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“She has the innate ability to alert to a stranger’s medical needs—with no special training and just her love for humans as her motivation,” they wrote on Facebook. “Please help us find her the home she deserves! A family out there needs her as much as she needs them!”

Interested parties can apply for adoption here.

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