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If you observe any of these red flag warnings in your dog, don't delay. Depending on their severity and suddenness, these symptoms could signal a condition that could kill your pet within just hours or days.

You'd likely consider this anything but normal. Yet it's a normal physiologic process — not a disorder at all. It could actually be an ingenious design of nature. Here's how to diagnose it, and how to be sure it's not accompanied by a life-threatening bacterial infection.

It's invisible to you, but these dogs can pick up on it and warn their owners or family members of a looming medical emergency. The dogs' warning methods are fascinating and they can even be trained to call 911 themselves, if necessary. Could one save your life?