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- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
AN ?amazing? dog who acts as a vital health alert system for her young owner has been nominated for a prestigious Crufts award.
Three-year-old Cocker Spaniel Molly, known in the competition as Molls, is one of five finalists in the Friends for Life award at Crufts 2014.
Her owner Steven Courtney, 11, has type 1 diabetes and Molls has become a third set of eyes in detecting danger for Steven?s parents Serena and Paul.
Trained by charity Medical Detection Dogs, Molls can identify changes in Steven?s glucose levels by smell and will alert him by licking his hand, jumping up or fetching his glucose test kit.
http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/11026675.Sniffer_dog_with_difference_has_good_nose_for_diabetes/
Three-year-old Cocker Spaniel Molly, known in the competition as Molls, is one of five finalists in the Friends for Life award at Crufts 2014.
Her owner Steven Courtney, 11, has type 1 diabetes and Molls has become a third set of eyes in detecting danger for Steven?s parents Serena and Paul.
Trained by charity Medical Detection Dogs, Molls can identify changes in Steven?s glucose levels by smell and will alert him by licking his hand, jumping up or fetching his glucose test kit.
http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/11026675.Sniffer_dog_with_difference_has_good_nose_for_diabetes/