7/21 Practing Pool Manners

she would swim all day if we would let her. She is practicing waiting for permission to swim and to jump and dive.

DANGER ZONE-Alerting 1-2 hours before danger zones!

Roxy crazy alerts -

BG-110 after coming down from a 200 when he went off temp basal after game. Around 10:30 pm Roxy is

Going nuts with alerting! Found and jumped up for bringsel and pawed for low...she counties to jump and try to get our attention with bringsel in mouth. She tries to get us to play tug with it. We tell her yes thank you, but she goes away only for a minute. But since had 50-60 carbs of dinner sitting in front of him, we said ok he is eating so it's ok he will come up. Then he listened to her and only bolused half of what his pump said.

After eating Roxy keeps alerting...continues with bringsel in my face and Janson's. Janson checked he was 90! Even after eating carbs and listening to Roxy and lowering bolus, he has learned to trust her over everything. He decided to eat 30 additional carbs with no bolus...then 30 minutes later 91! It's midnight so I will watch his numbers throug night cause he has playoff games in morning. 

Earlier today, before his double header, Roxy did the same thing! He had been higher in the morning, and had come down to like 170. He was eating before his game and she went crazy it's the bringsel ... Non stop jumping with it and wanting t play with it. She paws to a low, and we are like, wait he isn't low and not much onboard but we will listen. It was another strong alert . We knew we had to listen , that he would go low. He ate but then only bolused for a portion, then bringsel crazy alert continued. He ate half a bananna 15 carbs with no insulin, then he went on temp basal. Instead if going high, he stayed about the same, I think his numbers were like. Next thing I know game is over, they won, and he comes running off the field and I said check BG! He had dropped to 45!!!! In freaking out! Juice, juice, then muffin. Roxy was right again... The weird thing is she has exhibited a trend alert, shown in both incidences about a 1-2 hours ahead of time. Janson and I also sat down and calculated it out. We think we figured that when she gives these strong alerts, she is alerting to a strong curve, a drop or rise in trend over a 1-2 hour time frame. It's up to us if we listen or not. Since these kinds of alerts are way ahead of time , we calculated by trial and error, that we think he needs to eat 30 carbs without insulin  over time (15 carbs pe hour)

April 6th: alert to my tremors before petit mal seizure

Posted by Tattle Tail Scent Dogs:

Over the years I have learned to NEVER doubt the dogs when they are trying to communicate that something is going on with us.    We may always understand WHAT they are trying to tell us…..but never doubt the message.   Yes I have gone to the dr and said “somethings wrong because my dog wont stop alerting and it isn’t my bgs…..the first time it turned out to be a infection”.  The NOSE KNOWS!

The story I am about to share is from a family that has a 10 month yellow lab female from Blackjack Allie litter last summer.  Her name is Roxy and she normally works for her boy as a diabetic alert dog.  This family has done a incredible job with her and her alerting and obedience is amazing especially considering her age!

About a month ago I received notice that the mom (non T1D) was in the hospital due to seizures.   I notified them to “WATCH THAT PUP…in regards to mom”. They then attended a online class where we had a far more detailed conversation about things to watch for.

This morning I received this from the mom “She is so clingly to me, when I told her "place" this morning she wouldn't listen and kept sitting on my feet and head on my lap... Then this... (video) I tremor or seize from one hand or arm or leg to the other, it's so weird, but she just licks or paws at me til I stop”

I am a tough ole bird but this video moved me to tears.  This is a diabetic alert dog who is now alerting to seizures as well.  All I can say is this  SOME DAY I HOPE TO BE HALF AS AMAZING AS THESE DOGS