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How Amazing is This?

Janiept

Janiept

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I just stumbled across this article and am absolutely blown away by what our four legged friends can do.
I think this might be particularly useful for Type 1s who live alone, but am sure there are others who might benefit.
I apologise if this has been written about here before but I haven't noticed anything.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-ouch-27219363
 
I am currently fostering a lovely black lab. She is going to be service dog. One of the six possible field she might be trained for is diabetic alert. Although I will be sad to send her back for training, I am getting eager to here what field she will enter.
 
I think you guys that foster service dogs are amazing too. I had an aunt who did the same for Guide Dogs for the Blind and she grew so attached to them (how could you not) and then handed them back when the time was right with a broken heart.

You do a great job. Hats off to you :angelic:
 
I agree with you Janie, the people who do this sort of thing have my great admiration! Having had a number of my own dogs sinc ethey were little pups, I don't know how they can part with these dogs once they've stolen their hearts!

Years ago when I took my first dogs to obedience training classes, there were several ladies there who did the initial acclimatization and basic obedience training for the Guide Dogs for the Blind puppies - the class did fundraising for them too. The wife of one of my husband's work mates used help with Hearing Dogs for the Deaf which at the time was a fairly new charity in the UK. She and her dogs (Norwegian Buhunds) also did fundraising regularly around Newbury, the dogs carried little collection boxes on their backs.

Robbity
 
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