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09/02/2021

This is the part of service dog training that is sad and hurts…
Tried & tried but Charlie must be
re-homed …

12/28/2020

Twist of fate and not trusting air-travel due to Covid & weather resulted in Dawn driving here right after a good size Minnesota blizzard with 10 inches of snow to get her service dog, found most places closed due to another Covid shut down ..sigh
but, as a good diabetics always dealing with the unexpected we were flexible and made it work:
Passed all service dog tests.

Scent Angels wishes all the best as you travel back to warmer places to begin your journey together as Team Dawn & Bella

12/06/2020

Airlines have some changes coming ...

10/10/2020

Show us your fall photos...

08/09/2020

We’d like to introduce scent angels newest diabetic alert dog hopeful .. she is an air-doodle (poodle Airedale) mix and a total sweetie

01/24/2020

Tidbit:

Look at the CGM graph photo below. See the slow decline. These are tough ones for a dog to identify and alert to.

Why? Because of odor threshold, the quickness an odor happens. Consider walking into a coffee shop, the smell is noticed. Work at that same coffee shop and your brain has shut off what it sees as normal environment odor. One minute there are no odor particles and the next minute you are saturated with coffee odors. The change is readily apparent. Not noticing odor would also happen if you could have very slowly walked closer and closer to the coffee shop.

They call it "Noseblind". Similar to a person who Smokes ci******es. The smoker, may use his to***co outside but once coming inside he no longer smells the product but everyone around him smells the ci******es. Why can’t the smoker smell it? The same odor molecules exist in his space. Answer: He’s Scent (odor) Saturated = Nose Blind.

This EXACT phenomenon is Why a Diabetic Alert Dog can’t smell a SLOW fall or RISE in a blood glucose. This is where a CGM can be a better tool.

Diabetic Alert Dogs (DADs) work best on those fast blood glucose drops and rises. They are faster than a CGM (Continuous Glucose Monitor). Most well trained D.A.Ds alert 15-20 minutes ahead of a CGM on a fast drop or rise. D.A.Ds will often also detect and alert on a fast 50 point fall or rise even though the blood sugar is NOT out of range. For example a drop from 150 down to 100 in less than 15 minutes.
Trainers don't consider that a false alert nor wrong alert...
Trainers don't consider the graph below a missed alert either...

01/19/2020

Today's tid bit:
To explain and alleviate confusion when service dogs are placed in their new home, and their person is told to tether their new dogs to them for 14 days or longer if necessary.

Dogs will know commands and manners at the time of placement, but know them mostly associated with their trainer and the house rules of where there had been.
When transitioning to a new handler it can be like learning the words all over again. "Sit" may sound or be heard differently from their new person. Then add the new and strange new house with strangers. The quick 3 day placement training is for the humans to learn what their dog knows and how to continue training. The tethering teaches the dog where they’re to be, what the rules are in their new house and sets them up to succeed... everyone wants that!

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