Diabetic alert dog smells girl’s sugar drop from 5 MILES away then warns mum of danger.
Michelle Anderson Brooks was baffled when her daughter Sadie’s service dog was agitated because she was far away at school.
Sadie’s HeroDiabetic alert dog smells girl’s sugar drop from MILES away Hero and her owner Sadie are the best of friends thanks to his special skills
The parents of a little girl with diabetes were alerted to a dangerous blood sugar drop by her medical dog – who was more than FIVE MILES away.
Sadie’s mum Michelle Anderson Brooks was at home with Hero when the pup started to wail and agitate.
The four-year-old, who has Down’s syndrome , has type one diabetes and is constantly monitored by her parents and pup.
If Sadie’s blood sugar falls below 100, Hero will let her mum and dad know by whining as he paws their left hand.
The opposite issue – high blood sugar above 200 – will see the dog instead paw their right hand.
Hero really lived up to his name when Sadie was attending her special needs class at Deerfield Elementary School in Cedar Hills while Hero was at home in Pleasant Grove, Utah.
Sadie’s Hero Diabetic alert dog smells girl’s sugar drop from MILES awaySadie’s diabetes is handled more easily with Hero to monitor her blood sugar levels at all times
Michelle says she was concerned when he started acting up.
“He’s normally a very quiet dog . Whining is not in his protocol. But he just started whining and he would not stop,” she told KUTV .
He was giving all the signs that Sadie was in trouble, but the little girl was miles and miles away.
Michelle called Sadie’s teacher Kimberly Stoneman and asked her to check her readings.
Sadie’s HeroDiabetic alert dog smells girl’s sugar drop from MILES awayLittle Sadie was at school five mils away when Hero warned her mum about her blood sugar
“I tested her and it was fine. Then within half an hour she went down,” she says, the little girl plummeting from 122 to a dangerous 82 in minutes.
Knowing that a drop like that could mean a diabetic coma for little Sadie, she immediately got assistance – all because of Hero’s apparently super-canine sense of smell.
The pup’s trainer – KC Owens of Tattle Tale Scent Dogs – says dogs could sense the issue up to two miles away, but she is baffled as to the five mile distance that Hero managed.