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http://www.tampabay.com/news/health/while-his-parents-slept-a-7-year-old-boys-life-was-saved-by-jedi-his/2268662"It was the middle of the night. The lights were off, the house was still, the six members of the Nuttall family were sound asleep. The machinery that monitors the blood sugar levels of 7-year-old Luke Nuttall, who suffers from dangerous type 1 diabetes, was utterly quiet.
But Jedi, Luke's diabetes-sniffing dog, was not.
The black lab jumped on and off of the bed Luke shared with his parents, thumping onto the mattress in an attempt wake the slumbering adults. When that didn't work, he lay on top of Dorrie Nuttall, startling her out of sleep.
She clambered out of bed and examined her son's continuous glucose monitor, but its reading was normal. Still, the dog was unrelenting. He bowed again and again, repeating the signal he'd been trained to send if he sense that Luke's blood sugar had gotten too low.
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redwitch
(14,966 posts)No need to ask "who's a good dog? here!
HuckleB
(35,773 posts)LonePirate
(13,482 posts)HuckleB
(35,773 posts)yourout
(7,558 posts)HuckleB
(35,773 posts)I know how hard it can be... We lost our nearly 15-year-old lab mutt ten years ago, right before our first child was born. She had been our pal for all those years, and even continued to backpack with us the summer before she passed. I never knew it would be that hard to lose her.
Duppers
(28,148 posts)Labs are not only intelligent, they're soulful. We have our second one who's now a 10mo sweetheart.
IDemo
(16,926 posts)The assumption was she detected a change in my breathing pattern. None of our current dogs have done this, although I've also had a much lower number of these events in recent years.
HuckleB
(35,773 posts)Thanks for sharing the story!
mopinko
(70,627 posts)recent example, i have a chicken that had an infected foot that was being kept in the house. every time the dog sniffs that chicken, it is that foot that he is sniffing. mostly healed now, but he still checks her out to make sure.
any time i have a wound of any kind, he checks it out, even when covered by clothes.
HuckleB
(35,773 posts)Our old lab mutt would do that to me, even through my shoes. Lesson learned: Make sure the footwear kept me from getting blisters.
Ilsa
(61,727 posts)Bless his trainers.
HuckleB
(35,773 posts)Omaha Steve
(100,164 posts)K&R!
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HuckleB
(35,773 posts)shenmue
(38,511 posts)Sunlei
(22,651 posts)Duppers
(28,148 posts)Great example. Thank you for posting this.
HuckleB
(35,773 posts)spooky3
(34,659 posts)I hope the parents figured out why the monitoring machine did not work.
Ilsa
(61,727 posts)He can be in the basement, tv on, door closed, and hear the hard dog food hit the dish. He'll paw at the door until I let him in to eat.
He is supposed to be my husband's dog, but he loves me the most. It's obvious.
spooky3
(34,659 posts)Any packet that sounds like Temptations.
They sit near the Temps drawer to urge me to open it if they haven't gotten their quota for the day. It's very funny...
Ilsa
(61,727 posts)Will walk over to me if I'm seated, and stick his nose under my upper knee of my crossed legs to try and force me to uncross them and get up! He's applying to MIT, mechanical engineering school.
renate
(13,776 posts)HuckleB
(35,773 posts)tazkcmo
(7,315 posts)Labs are my favorite kind of person!