I have a relative who is a doctor. This helps me stay healthy, but not because I receive info about proper diet and lifestyle. Nope, I hear stories about bad doctors who they struggle to get rid of at her hospital but can’t, and that gives me all the incentive I need to stay in shape.
Recently my doctor-relative told about these cool companion dogs that can sense things in people better than any human or machine can. There are dogs that know when a seizure is coming and alert the patient before it happens. There are dogs that can tell when your blood sugar is off. Apparently they do this by smell and warn you by barking.
Which gave me a great idea. We need one of these dogs to sniff for blood-alcohol content. Just picture it — some guy is sitting in a bar and the dog smells a .07 BAC. The dog remains silent. But then the guy does one more shot and leaves to drive home. Knowing that the guy is now over .08, the dog starts barking like crazy. And refuses to stop. No one can drive home with a dog going ballistic.
And we wouldn’t need to limit this to public safety. The dog could also prevent its owner from embarrassing himself. Imagine this scenario: A guy walks up to a woman in a bar, feeling confident from one-too-many Jell-O shots. He leans toward her ear and says “I lost my phone number, can I have yours?” And the dog starts howling.
We need this dog.
My dog can sense brisket from 1000 yards. Does that count for anything?
My cat can hear me opening up a bag of treats all the way from the other end of the apartment. Does that count?
Oh wait. She’s a cat, not a dog. Never mind.
Thomas, do you think they can make an alcohol sniffing breed? So much good this would do. Ask Bill Y. 🙂
Put a muzzle on Thirsty Dave and you can have him.
Dogs like that could probably run the entire hospital security department better than most.
Oh we’d be glad to have Dave. Does he work cheap? Payment in beer?