For an assistance dog... it’s not just recognising a hypo... it’s getting you a treatment and blood meter too. Being able to stir you... if you had a life line and lived by yourself they would need to push the lifeline button.. which would activate loud alarms in the home and contact the services that would call an ambulance.
A hypo alert dog is trained from your breath and will wake you up at night and bring you the hypo stoppers... it will do certain trained aspects to ensure you are safe not just recognising a hypo..
The dogs have to work for you at all times and be able to sense a hypo when they are playing or distracted and stop everything and assist you. They must be able to walk without pulling on lead etc, which is just basic.
There are strict criteria to a dog becoming a hypo alert dog.
My friend has a canine partner assistance dog and the training she has done with him is unbelievable. It will pick up his own treat to give back to her if she drops it!!! My dog would rather eat any hypo stoppers than give them to me. She recognised hypo’s but will not stop eating hypo treats if she had to give them to me!!