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2 MORE CHANCES TO TRAIN IN PERSON After July 4th We Will No Longer Run In Person Medical Alert Dog Classes. If You Want To Work 1 on 1 With Mary McNeight, You Will Need To Register Now. Last Year I Made Less Than $10,000 Last year, in my attempt to help people train their own [...]

WE ARE TEACHING AGAIN IN ST. LOUIS We will be teaching our medical alert dog class in St. Louis Memorial Day Weekend May 25th-28th 2018. Registration must be completed by May 4th! How I Lost The Equivalent Of A Service Dog In Weight and... My Migraines, Neuropathy, Endometriosis, Eczema, Blood Sugar Swings and High Blood Pressure! My [...]

WE ARE COMING BACK TO SEATTLE We will be teaching our medical alert dog class in Seattle April 5th-8th 2018 in Seattle. Registration must be completed by March 29th! Proof Of Why You Should Choose An Experienced Medical Alert Service Dog Trainer Several weeks ago I put out a Medical Alert Dog Monday video where I [...]

[custom_frame_center shadow="on"][/custom_frame_center] "There is no question in my mind that he saved me."In 2015 Ross took our 4 Day Medical Alert Dog Class in Seattle with his dog Crush. 4 days ago, out of the blue, Ross calls me and recounts how his incredibly reliable medical alert dog alerted to a night time low he never expected. Ross wants to share with you how our class, his hard work and [...]

[custom_frame_center shadow="on"][/custom_frame_center] What does Pirate Mary say about teaching an old dog new tricks? Independence from Cedar Rapids Iowa has our question of the week. Independence has a 3 year old labrador who has yet to show any sign of recognizing her hypoglycemia episodes. She has been told that if her dog has not supernaturally noticed her low blood sugars in the last three years that the dog will never [...]

[custom_frame_center shadow="on"][/custom_frame_center] Homer, one of our Already Trained Diabetic Alert Dogs learning to focus at a football game.Service Dog Academy will once again be featured at a diabetes conference. Take Control Of Your Diabetes is having their annual conference in St. Louis this year and Service Dog Academy will have a booth at this wonderful learning opportunity. The conference includes educational presentations, a health fair and even a free lunch [...]

[custom_frame_center shadow="on"][/custom_frame_center] Homer and Imogene, two of our Already Trained Diabetic Alert Dogs learning to focus around distractions.Rachel from Michigan has our question of the week. Rachel is interested in getting a medical alert dog for her POTS (Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome). She is interested in one of our imprinted puppies from our next litter but has a question about taking her puppy everywhere while she is in school. She [...]

[custom_frame_center shadow="on"][/custom_frame_center] Betty Lou an 8 week old Labradoodle puppy is still available for placement as a service dog candidate.Mason from Bloomington Normal Illinois has our question of the week. Mason has just received his new puppy and knows that if he is going to train it for service work he needs to socialize it to as many people places and things as possible. But Mason is having trouble managing [...]

[custom_frame_center shadow="on"][/custom_frame_center] As a service dog handler who has been personally accompanied by a dog 24 hours a day 7 days a week for over eleven years, I have had just about every experience possible with a service dog right beside me. Ive been to football games and experienced the roar of a crowd as the winning touchdown has been scored, Ive been to amusement parks with two puppies in [...]

[custom_frame_center shadow="on"][/custom_frame_center] Leia is pregnant with first generation Christmas Labradoodle puppies. She is due to give birth around December 11th. This litter will be raise with the following criteria: Imprinted with diabetic alert scent from one day old (can be imprinted with migraine scent as well) Early neurological stimulation as developed by the US military's super dog program Environmental enrichment Avidog Early Scent Introduction Open Paws Minimal Mental Health Guidelines [...]

[custom_frame_center shadow="on"][/custom_frame_center] On Thursday June 3rd I found out that Liame, my service dog of 8 years, the dog that inspired the creation of this business, has an incredibly aggressive form of kidney cancer and has days to weeks to live. I will be shutting down the operations of Service Dog Academy to focus on his care, comfort and happiness with the time he has left on this earth. Please [...]

[custom_frame_center shadow="on"][/custom_frame_center] Luke and Leonard learning to ignore human food placed at nose level at the St. Louis Missouri Six Flags Over Mid America.   This Weeks Medical Alert Dog Monday Youtube Video question comes from a commenter on the website with the user name KinkyBear. KinkyBear is training her own medical alert dog and wants to know if she can feed her dog human food. KinkyBear didnt say whether [...]

[custom_frame_center shadow="on"][/custom_frame_center] This Weeks Medical Alert Dog Monday Youtube Video question comes from Gretchen from Tacoma. Gretchen has a daughter with a seizures and has a older great dane. Gretchen had her older Dane professionally trained but is noticing some normal changes that sometimes come with old age (like not wanting to be around unfamiliar, young, whipper snapper puppies). Gretchen wants to know if she can train her own dog [...]

[custom_frame_center shadow="on"][/custom_frame_center] This Weeks Medical Alert Dog Monday Youtube Video question comes from Service Dog Academy's Blog. A student from Tallahassee Florida left a comment asking if a medical alert dog trained for diabetic alert could also be trained for psychiatric service or even emotional support. This is a very pertinent question giving the fact that people with chronic life alerting conditions with no cures have a tendency to experience [...]

[custom_frame_center shadow="on"][/custom_frame_center] This Weeks Medical Alert Dog Monday Youtube Video question comes from Madison from Columbus Ohio. Madison wants to feed her dog a raw meat based diet but is unsure if we allow dogs who eat primarily raw food into our training program. Madison has been doing her homework. She has watched our online videos and read our ebooks and has noticed that our primary method of rewarding our [...]

[custom_frame_center shadow="on"][/custom_frame_center] In 100% of the cases so far, we have had success in getting candidate dogs in the cabin of the airplane when traveling to our classes. This Weeks Medical Alert Dog Monday Youtube Video question comes from Cindy. Cindy wants to attend my Iowa Diabetic Alert / Medical Alert Dog Class but will have to travel there by airplane from the east coast. She wants to know if [...]

[custom_frame_center shadow="on"][/custom_frame_center] I have exciting news. The University of California at Irvine is taking air samples and testing them in a gas chromatograph mass spectrometer. They are trying to determine exactly what (our migraine alert dog) is smelling. This Weeks Medical Alert Dog Monday Youtube Video question comes from Jason from Chicago Illinois. He writes, "I am interested in purchasing an alert dog. There's a company out in Virginia that [...]

ODMMA - One Dog, Multiple Medical Alerts - Is It Possible? Solstice from Bellingham Washington is a type one diabetic. She is getting a German Shepherd puppy from a breeder in a few weeks. Solstice not only wants to train her pup for diabetes but wants to train her dog to alert to her migraines. However, Solstice isnt sure its even possible for one dog to perform alerts for more [...]

Migraine Alert Puppy Trainer - How Long Will It Take To Train An Alert In My Home Ashley from Ohio has severe chronic migraines that causes headaches, light sensitivity, nausea, vertigo and vomiting. She is interested in getting a migraine alert dog but still has some questions about them. Her question has to do with how long it actually takes to train a migraine alert dog, whether that be an [...]

Diabetic Alert Puppy In Training - Service Dog Vests, Do They Provide Public Access Rights In Your Community Joanna from Telluride Colorado has our Medical Alert Dog Monday Question of the Week. In Joanna's email she asks: "Hi. We are loving your program and our dog is responding really well. Myself (41) and my daughter (11) are both type 1 diabetics. What are the rules about a service dog vest [...]

Small Dogs, Are They The Best Choice For Training Your Own Diabetes Service Dog At Home? Marianne from the Bridge of the USS Enterprise D wants to know about getting a dog that is less than 40 lbs as her service dog. Small service dogs for diabetes, seizure, narcolepsy and migraine alert work certainly do have their benefits. Over the life of the dog, they tend to cost less to [...]

Traditional Migraines and Hemiplegic Migraine Alert Dogs - Preventing Symptoms With Advanced Warning Of Impending Paralysis and Pain Gabby from Kansas City Missouri has our Medical Alert Dog Monday Question of the Week. In Gabby's email she asks: "Hi my name is Gabby and my mom has had migraines for the past 2 years. How would she benefit from having a service dog?" [message type="success"]Student Testimonial: "If you have not [...]

[custom_frame_center shadow="on"][/custom_frame_center] This weeks socialization item is stuffed animals like those you would see at your local Natural History Museum. Seizure Alert Dog Training Certification - Oregon and Washington State Amanda from Medford Oregon wants to know how she should go about getting her dog who is training for seizure alert work (a dog who should be able to dial 911 on a dog phone, go get help during a [...]

Night Alerting For Diabetic Alert Dogs - The Holy Grail Of Diabetes Alert Puppy Training I get it, night time can be especially scary for diabetics. That is why almost 98% of the people who contact me for diabetic or medical alert dog training ask about how they can get their dogs to alert them if their blood sugars drop too low at night. In this Medical Alert Dog Monday [...]

At least three times a week I get emails from potential students looking to train their own medical alert dogs. Most of them either ask how old the dog has to be to start medical alert dog training or assume that their dog is too young to start medical alert dog training. In the video, Lavoyce from Kansas wants to know how old the dog has to be to start [...]

Battle of the Sexes: Male or Female Puppy For Diabetic Alert? One of the more frequent questions I get from people who want to train their own diabetic alert dog or people who want to purchase a diabetic alert dog is if a male or a female puppy would be a better choice for their specific needs. This is a controversial question in the service dog training community. You will [...]

We have three videos on travel tips for your turkey day adventures with your pups. Whether you are traveling from one coast to another on an airplane or just over the hill and through the woods to grandmothers house, you can count on these travel tips to take the headaches out of commuting long distances with your pup, diabetic alert dog or not. Although we no longer train pet dogs, [...]

Train Your Service Dog / Pet Dog or Diabetic Alert Dog To Never Guard Bones Service dogs need to be completely safe around other dogs and humans. They need to think that no matter who approaches them when they have something in their mouth, be it a two year old child, an autistic adult or even another dog, that there is never a need to guard anything. Watch our free [...]