The Houston International Airport was as busy as ever, with passengers racing to catch their flights. Shadow, an experienced German Shepherd K9 trained to detect risks, began barking at a woman in the long queue. She was 7 months pregnant and scared of the dog’s reaction.
Officers requested her to come forward. They thoroughly searched her possessions, but found nothing unusual. However, Shadow would not stop sniffing and barking at her.
The cops were perplexed and pondered their future steps. Should they let the woman leave?
She was substantially pregnant, and the whole circumstance made her feel unhappy and uncomfortable.
And then, just as they were about to let her go, Agent Grant remembered Shadow’s training as a medical alert service dog. Is something wrong with this woman?
To be sure, he told her he wanted to phone the emergency services to check on her. Despite her reservations at initially, the woman eventually accepted.
To everyone’s surprise, the medics detected uterine rupture, a critical and uncommon birthing complication in which the muscle wall of the uterus tears.
The woman was transported to a local hospital and gave birth prematurely.
Her kid was still small and in an incubator, but he and his mother were OK.
That day, Shadow saved two lives. His acute senses enabled him to identify that something was wrong with that woman’s child.
Dogs have up to 300 million scent sensors, allowing them to detect substances or changes in body odor caused by diseases or medical problems.
A few days after the incident, Shadow and Agent Grant paid the woman a visit in the hospital, where she and the staff expressed their gratitude to Shadow in a brilliantly lit ward.
