Migraine Alert Dogs and Small Brag - Page 2

That is incredible

Thabk you Bhall. I have been to your site the last half hour because there is so much info to read on there. Very nice and I saw a couple of GSDs that I really liked. Kudos to you for what you do regarding the K9s.

 When I was on Bhall's site, it reminded me of something I need to put on mine. They  also get early stimulation with the Bio Sensor method. I wasn't sure about it at first but now I am a believer.

Some people take deposits when the bitch is confirmed pregnant and some as soon as they are born. I am just a little superstitious--I wait until after the pups have had their vet checks at 5 weeks and then I start contacting people on my list--if I email you and I don't get the deposit within 7 days not counting Sundays or holidays then I write you a note and tell you since I feel you are no longer interested and I never received your deposit, you have forfeited your place in line and I will consider the puppy for sale. I feel that is being fair to everyone.

I try to improve the breed. I am already thinking right now 2 litters ahead and what I feel would be the best improvement for my dogs and what I am trying to do. I am a simple honest person and I hope to always remain that way and not get caught up in any extremes or kennel blindness.

I thank everyone who has helped me--a lot unknowingly because I have learned a lot on this site. You'd never believe I was here and a member and never said anything for a couple of years. I just wanted to soak up all the info I could and try to think what I really wanted to do in dogdom...................Lots of drama here sometimes and I am guilty and sometimes in the middle too--but if you look and read, a lot of good information and a lot of people who truly care about the breed.

A good place to learn more about service dogs is http://servicedogcentral.org/content/

I am kind of curious what a warning of an oncoming migraine does--does it give the person time to try to start medication before the migraine hits?

At this point, I think 5 of my dogs are working as or training as service dogs. One is a puppy who is hopefully going to be a seizure-alert dog--he's 4 months old and has given at least one warning alert, so hopefully he will work out as an alerter--giving 20 minutes or so of pre-warning so his human can get into a safe situation before the seizure starts.

Most important for the dogs is sound nerves, not reactive or defensive, able to handle the daily stresses of public access--from walking down the soap aisle at a grocery store to ignoring the meat at the meat counter to having strangers step on tails and kids come barrelling out of nowhere to randomly grab the dog by the head. The puppy buyers who are training their own service dogs are keeping detailed training logs--and also detailed socialization logs. They want the dogs to meet people of every size, shape, color, beards, no beards, shoes, no shoes, costumes, hats, blond hair, dark hair, white hair, dreadlocks, mud boots, canes, and wheelchairs and elevators and rotating doors and automatic doors and steps and grates and all the many, many, many things the dogs will have to deal with. In addition, they have to go into a new situation and just settle silently under a table or desk or seat in a restaurant or office or movie theater, then get up and be ready to go back to work on an instant's notice.

I'm far from an expert--and I'm not training SDs myself--but it's been a great learning experience to work with puppy buyers to help them select their puppy and to watch them evaluate my adult dogs and to hear about their training and socialization experiences.

Christine

Christine thanks for a great post. Lots of info on there and lots more to think about. Thank you for sharing all that.

I do know this. That puppy as I said was very confident and outgoing. I raise my pups in the house and gradually start taking them out. I have some things set up in the back yard so they are used to every kind of flooring they might ever encounter. Also in the house every kind of noise they might encounter in a normal house. Outside they are exposed to kids playing next door, riding lawn mower, gunshots, fireworks, coyotes singing in the distance. I also know he is very good friends with Kelly the SAR lady, and I feel she is directing him all the way. I went by Thursday to see her and Eara but I guess they were out and about cause her vehicle wasn't there and the door was locked. I wanted to find out her opinion of how the puppy was doing as far as the ability to perform any kind of service dog jobs. Also I sold a pet girl to her friend and was wanting to see how she was doing.

One thing too I do use a cane and sometimes a walker so they were exposed to that from the beginning. Now saying my disability is a good thing, just saying it is sort of fortunate for the puppies.

Well I can post the links I found--I thought it was only 4 but it is quite a few.

Again thank you and any info you glean from your puppy people about the seizure alert puppy and any others please feel free to share with me. I think it is awesome the puppy alerted at 4 months old.
Here are the links:
https://sites.google.com/site/chronicmigraineawarenesshome/home/alert-pets

http://servicedogacademy.com/wp/  on this one scroll down to the bottom and on the left it says types of service dogs

http://www.fitasfido.com/research-update/  this one has some info you sort of have to dig for it

http://www.columbiamissourian.com/stories/2009/12/29/dogs-provide-more-just-love-their-owners/


 http://www.thedailyheadache.com/ scroll about halfway down for this one

http://www.ozworkingdogs.com.au/Assistance_Dogs_in_Australia.php

http://www.wilderwood.org/episodic/index.html

http://www.disabled-world.com/disability/serviceanimals/dog-rights.php

http://servicedogacademy.com/wp/diabetic-alert/intensive-diabetic-diabetes-alert-dog-training-seminar-workshop/

http://www.expertclick.com/NRWire/Releasedetails.aspx?id=24154 

Christine, I am an occasional migraine sufferer (it used to be worse / more frequent, but has become better with age).
I am one of the fortunate people who get an "aura" before the head splitting pain sets in - i.e. the flashing lights &
disturbed vision - so I can take medication to reduce the headache, get myself comfortable in a darkened room, with
something to throw up into.
I can therefore imagine that people who don't get that much warning, and many don't, there are different types of migraines,
could very much benefit from an alert dog,  in the same way that epileptics have seizure alert dogs.  If it meant you could pull
off the road if you were driving, for instance, it would be worth its weight in gold, and accidents avoided, etc.

 Hundmutter

Makes sense--thanks for elaborating.

Such a cool thread.  ---------  Just a share.........  Max went shopping and to a band marching contest today.  He made us proud.   We are starting on the "no floor surfing,"  "no shake indoors" training.  I so hope by November he is ready for restaurant training.    ----- Poor Rosé.  She is so close to coming in heat, she is house confined.  She lets me know her unhappiness every time I leave or come back home.   ------  Cirberus is doing well too.  I am going slower with her.  We had to come to an understanding lately that "no, it is not ok to want to take a bite out of someone just because they come up behind us." ----- aah the pleasures of the first year.

YAY Way to go Max. Kudos to you Fawn for doing such a good job with him. Poor Rose she probably feels left out............

This is a cool thread and I hope it stays that way. I think I told you I have 2 girls who mix it up--2 weeks ago this past Wed. they really mixed it up--Voo tried to kill her--no warning or anything. So my poor kids have been very unhappy because they have to play musical crates. Whoever is crated at the time cries and looks sad. They had to shave most of her back, around her neck and of course her stomach. She had 9 drains in her. I think I told someone in an email 8 but I counted and it was 9. She ripped her stomach open. Thank you Dr Collins for saving Sister. Now that she is all healed up--the little places have closed up and healed==the big place on her back is almost closed up and the place on her stomach is doing well, as long as it is kept clean and she finishes her antibiotics it will be fine. Anyway she is going to my mentor's Monday and stay there till we can find her a home. It just breaks my heart.

Thursday we are leaving for Denver for the GSDCA Nationals. Miss Prissy DeJa is going--it will be an awesome experience for her. Great opportunity for socialization. But of course I want to show her off a little to people I know and see every year. I want to take a lot of pics of her and different people and also I will tell you how it went when we get back. She was 13 weeks yesterday so this is perfect timing.

Fawn you have my email and -phone. If you should run across anyone who might be interested in an almost 5 yr old sable female, spayed and up to date on rabies and heartworm, please feel free to give them my contact info. She is not a rescue type dog because she has a home till we find her a permanent one. I think she would do well with an older couple or woman--she doesn't like walks or car rides. She is happy just to go in and out. Fenced yard a must. Crate trained and housebroken. Good watchdog, gets along with cats. Has NEVER threatened or attempted to bite a person. I know this sounds like an ad but I just know you know a lot of people.....and it's just on my mind. Very reasonable adoption fee. Healthwise, she has 4 missing P1 teeth and she is overweight. The weight can be managed and the teeth don't matter. She is agile and active and a very pretty dog. We're not that far from Dallas and would be willing to meet someone halfway........Anyone else just PM me. Thanks.

How old is Max now? He is a beautiful boy..............I like him and the more you tell me about him the more I like him.

And Hundmutter thanks for your excellent post. It was something I said before when I had the ?? migraine thread up. Yes they are a pain, literally, but something causes that pain.