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My little dog alerted me...

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Never heard of kapenta! An internet dog food company do them, they are treats but they do food as well, complete fish - they are very crunchy and about half an inch square. She loves them so much she usually runs into a corner to eat them, something she never does usually!
 
Liz! said:
To train her it goes in incremental stages. i start off by doing a blood test - call her to me, and if my blood sugar is high, i let her smell my hand and give her a pat. If my blood sugar is normal, I ask her to smell my hand and take no notice of her at all, and if my BS is low, I click AS she smells my hand (not easy when low!) with a clicker which 'marks' that behaviour as very good, and give her a very high quality treat, that she doesn't get at any other time. she like dried fish skin! Gradually they get to associate the smell of you low with a wonderful treat.
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that is amazing Liz .... very clever being able to train dogs like that 🙂
 
Liz! said:
We have been trianing my little dog to alert me to hypos as i have no warning signs, and lots of hypos for no discernable reason.

Last night as I went to bed, my BS was 13 which was too high, so I corrected for a blood sugar of 11 (knowing that I go hypo sometimes at night I was cautious). Ten minutes later I got in bed and my dog alerted by whining at me from her crate - I did another BS and it had dropped in that 10 minutes to 5.5. So went downstairs ate some sugar and flapjack and went o bed again. % am she woke my OH by whining, he got up, let her out thinking she wanted to go wee but she leapt on the bed and started pawing me. I was unconscious.

So she alerted twice in one night, and the first one saved me from a worse hypo, the second saved me from 2 more hours unconscious till OH gets up.

Good little dog! What's more I woke up to that little face looking at me!

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Aaaaahhhh what a truly wonderful little dog. Did she get a doggy treat?. Bless her little heart 🙂. I can't help it, I'm such a softy when it comes to animals. So glad you are feeling better, take care now. best wishes sheena
 
Wow all i can say to sum this dog up.....
 
Thank you all, she is the very best dog in the world. Although there are many more like her doing good jobs. I think it's on channel 5 on next Tuesday 8th Feb, 7.30 there's a series called extraordinary dogs, and there are some on there trained by the charity who is helping me to train Lola, if you are interested.
 
Liz, firstly congratulations on the amazing training. Not only is she absolutely beautiful but such a reassurance to have by your side.

Donna 🙂
 
She is one very clever and extremely cute dog🙂
 
Liz! said:
To train her it goes in incremental stages. i start off by doing a blood test - call her to me, and if my blood sugar is high, i let her smell my hand and give her a pat. If my blood sugar is normal, I ask her to smell my hand and take no notice of her at all, and if my BS is low, I click AS she smells my hand (not easy when low!) with a clicker which 'marks' that behaviour as very good, and give her a very high quality treat, that she doesn't get at any other time. she like dried fish skin! Gradually they get to associate the smell of you low with a wonderful treat.
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Wow, thanks for sharing that - it really is fascinating, and what an intelligent thing for an animal to be able to do! truly amazing.

and lucky you!
 
How wonderful !! I have heard of hearing dogs and deaf/blind aid dogs but this is amazing.
 
My mum,T1, has a Bijon Frise that hasn't been trained but he still wakes mum when she goes hypo at night.
 
i would definitely recommend a dog! I was not a dog person before Lola. But no I'm besotted. She is just no trouble at all, and I even enoy walking her (i am not a walking person at all either!).

Today she ahs alerted me 3 times to high blood sugar. I did a test before dinner and it was 6 - had dinner, and only half an hour after she came and pawed my hand. I said, go away Lola, I'm fine! Then she went and rang her bell (the one she rings if she wants to go outside) and came and sat in front of me and growled and pawed my hand again. She hadn't sniffed me at all - so I said, oh, I'll go and test then. I tested and sure enough I was 17.1.
 
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