[RKDinOKC]

I am training my Golden Retriever to be a Diabetic Alert Dog.
They can notify you of both low and high blood sugar 30 minutes before it shows up on a meter.
I can tell when my sugar starts to get too low, unless I am asleep. So that is what I am training my dog for.
She wakes me up and leads me to my testing meter. She has done this 5 times in the last 3 months.

A trained Diabetic Alert Dog sells for $20,000.

In my research what people call certification is BS. It is just a diploma they give the dog's ower. Even dogs for the blind! The certification is just a document showing your dog has gone thru training. It does not make the dog a support dog.

The actual laws for service animals are very general.
The only Law is that you must tell anyone that asks that you have a problem (hippa laws mean you do not have to say what that problem is) and what that dog does to help you with the problem,. Also, Legally any business owner or whatever can refuse to allow any service dog in their establishment. In fact, if any service dog fails to obey the owner or exhibits poor behavior that animal can be removed.

Real service dogs they work on obedience first before the actual service training. In looking for help training a Diabetic Alert Dog, before any of the trainers will do anything for you and your dog it must pass obedience training. And that includes not just being house broken, but going to the restroom on command, when and where told.

With the addition of support dogs/animals for PTSD sufferers, Diabetic Alert, Severe Anxiety, Epileptics, even Heart Attacks, etc. has opened up a whole new venue for people to abuse the current service animal laws.

My nieces boy is going thru cancer and chemo and all that. He has a support dog. The family tried getting a dog when all the kids were younger, but with their 6 kids they were not able to train the dog and gave it away. Now that they have the support dog for the boy, none of the other kids are allowed to play with it, and he must work on training for at least 30 minutes every day. It is doing great and goes to his treatments with him.


There is NO WAY any sort of support animal should harm anyone no matter what that person does. With the ONLY exception being someone harming the person the support animial is supporting.