[nagdu] Local business asks service dog to leave

[Lyn Gwizdak]

I have a friend who had a guide dog to alert her to her seizures.  She never 
taught the dog but the dog would block her way like for traffic and not let 
her go anywhere til after the seizure was over.  This was not trained.  The 
dog was a service dog because of being a guide dog but with the extra 
alerting.  I have another friend whose guide dog will wake her up if the dog 
detects her low sugar while asleep.

Seizure alerts can become a trained response thus making the dog a valid 
service dog.

Lyn and Landon
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Katrin Andberg" <katrin at maplewooddog.com>
To: <nagdu at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2011 7:48 AM
Subject: Re: [nagdu] Local business asks service dog to leave


> Dogs who naturally alert to conditions are not service animals.  A natural
> alert is not trained.  What can turn that natural alerter into a service
> animal is actual training in response behaviors and tasks to assist the
> disabled handler when a condition is alerted to.  For seizure alert dogs I
> believe the current thought % is 20-30% of dogs can naturally alert to a
> seizure in their handler, these dogs are not by default service animals. 
> I
> have a friend who has a seizure alert and response dog and she will say a
> thousand times over what benefits her more is having the dog trained in
> response behaviors such as clearing an airway, guiding her safely around
> objects and drop offs when she is postictal, and other such behaviors.
> While it is nice to know a seizure is coming, what is generally more
> important is staying safe after.
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> Katrin
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> Katrin Andberg
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> <mailto:katrin at maplewooddog.com> katrin at maplewooddog.com
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