rmb3971 Posted January 28, 2008 Report Share Posted January 28, 2008 Hi wonder if any of you wise fugees out there can shed any light in this direction please???? My old collie girlie Floss could always detect when my 'type 1 diabetic OH' was in the early stages of a 'hypo', especially at night, which was extrememly useful at times. Sadly however the basis for her letting me know was that she was frightened by it, which of course was not at all pleasant for her. I know that dogs can be trained specifically to detect the onset of an epileptic fit or other medical alerts, and I was given the name of a lady who trained dogs to detect hypoglycaemia but was never successful in getting in touch with her. I think she worked for a charity to which you can apply for a trained assistance dog with specific skills, but this is a huge step further than our situation warrants. However I am just really interested/curious to find out how you go about training a dog to do this, in the hope that our dogs Robbie or Remmi might one day be encouraged to be sensitive towards it in a positive way. If anyone has read anything or has any suggestions I'd be delighted to hear. Everything on t'internet seems to be American and no sign of clues about the training principles used. I know it is almost unheard of to train a person's own dog. But I'd love to try or at least know how it was done. I did find this 'pay to view' article title "Canine detection of hypoglycaemic episodes whilst driving" on an American website, which amused my silly sense of humour as I pictured a collie taking over at the wheel, and some poor bloke pushed into passenger seat! Many thanks Roz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zico's mum Posted January 28, 2008 Report Share Posted January 28, 2008 (edited) Balance magazine - Jan/Feb 2008 - has an article on this - I can copy it and post to you if you want it. There's also a survey here which sounds like you would be a good candidate for? Found the Balance article on-line. Edited January 28, 2008 by zico's mum Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackmagic Posted January 28, 2008 Report Share Posted January 28, 2008 This site explains that they train their dogs to recognise the scent on a shirt from the person http://landofpuregold.com/dd-disease.htm#Diabetes another site here explains how the dog was trained to recognise low blood suger http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2007/...race-and-garbo/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rmb3971 Posted January 28, 2008 Author Report Share Posted January 28, 2008 Just poppped on for a minute. Brilliant replies, thanks. I will follow the links and inwardly digest contents this evening. Roz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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