Can having a Seizure Alert Dog reduce seizures? A new study suggests that it's possible
A groundbreaking study recently unveiled the remarkable impact of seizure alert dogs on individuals with epilepsy.
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Jennifer Cattet
Feb 213 min read
There is a Scent for Seizures: How Trained Seizure Alert Dogs Could Revolutionize Epilepsy Management
Since ancient times, the human sense of smell has been recognized as a powerful tool for detecting changes in health. From Hippocrates'...
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Jennifer Cattet
Feb 144 min read
What are Psychiatric Service Dogs Tasks?
Explore the tasks of psychiatric service dogs in managing anxiety, self-harm, and panic attacks.
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Jennifer Cattet
Oct 12, 20233 min read
Get your dog trained as your Service Dog
Are you or a loved one in need of a service dog but already have a cherished canine companion? Are you seeking a specific breed or a...
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Oct 6, 20236 min read
How to Train a Seizure Alert Dog
The risk of sudden and unpredictable seizures can severely impact how much we can do and how safe we feel going about our day. The Mayo...
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Oct 6, 20238 min read
How to select a dog to train as your service dog?
Since we help owners train their own dogs as service dogs, the question of how to pick the right dog comes up daily at our training...
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Jennifer Cattet
Mar 18, 20232 min read
The Healing Power of Psychiatric Service Dogs
As the prevalence of mental health conditions continues to rise, so does the demand for mental health treatments. One of the latest forms...
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Jennifer Cattet
Jan 24, 20228 min read
How to choose a service dog trainer?
In my early days as a service dog trainer, the only way to get a service dog was to apply to an organization and wait for your turn to...
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Jennifer Cattet
Jun 15, 20218 min read
How to select a dog to train as your service dog?
Since we help owners train their own dogs as service dogs, the question of how to pick the right dog comes up daily at our training...
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Jennifer Cattet
Apr 3, 20215 min read
Why get a diabetic alert dog?
I still remember the very first diabetic alert dog I placed. It was for a young 30 some years old man, Dustin, who suffered from loss of...
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Jennifer Cattet
Mar 2, 20215 min read
Can your ESA become your Service Dog and fly with you?
For the past decade, owners, suffering from a disability, were able to bring their emotional support animal (ESA) on the plane with them,...
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Jennifer Cattet
Feb 11, 20216 min read
How to Get a Service Dog
Living with a disability is difficult, stressful, and sometimes scary if your condition triggers sudden changes in your physiology. Dogs...
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Jennifer Cattet
Dec 5, 20205 min read
Caleb and the “collaborator” Darcy
Grief and trauma can impact all area of a young person’s life. School is harder, relationships more frightening, the normal “losses” of...
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Jennifer Cattet
Oct 6, 20203 min read
Medical Mutts Helps Owner Train Her Own Seizure Alert Dog and Get Her Life Back
Dublin is a very special basset hound. This unusual service dog never misses a seizure and alerts Olivia so that she can prepare and get...
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Jennifer Cattet
Sep 6, 20204 min read
A fireman and his psychiatric service dog on a mission
Nathan is a firefighter, and his psychiatric service dog, Penelope is on a mission to tackle PTSD.
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Jennifer Cattet
Jun 6, 20202 min read
Juniper is a rescue dog because she rescued me – Amy Mansfield
I explain time and time again to strangers about how Juniper is a rescue dog. “Rescue dog,” however, has two different meanings in my...
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Jennifer Cattet
May 6, 20203 min read
Life is better with Asti, my Diabetes Alert Dog – Alice Martina Smith
I have been a type 1 diabetic for more than 40 years. I have also been privileged to share my life with dogs for most of that time. I am...
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Jennifer Cattet
Apr 29, 20202 min read
Dogs Prove There is a Scent Associated to Epileptic Seizures
A collaborative study between a French research team of the University of Rennes and an Indiana-based service dog organization, Medical...
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Jennifer Cattet
Mar 10, 20205 min read
When it comes to service dogs, does breed matter?
Can a Chihuahua, a Great Pyrenees or a Pit bull be a service dog? Do service dogs have to be Labradors, Golden Retrievers or German...
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Jennifer Cattet
Feb 1, 20205 min read
Thinking of getting a Diabetes Alert Dog? What to look for ?
There are many companies, both for-profit and not-for-profit that train diabetes alert dogs. Most offer high-quality service dogs with...
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