Seizure Alert Dogs

[Jennifer]

Below are a few link to explain seizure alert dogs.

www.epilepsy.org.au/epilepsy/epilepsyadult.nsf/Content/FeatureStory2?OpenDocument&style=PrintEasy


www.workingdogs.com/vcepilepsy.htm

www.deltasociety.org/nsdc/alertv06n04.htm

news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/04/0416_030416_seizuredogs.html

[jerickarose]

The Delta Society is great. I searched for a company that would fit with me and my circumstances. And boy did I find a winner... even if their waiting list is 1-5 years.

[belinda]

With my allergies a seizure alert dog just wouldn't fit in.

I'd be miserable.


Belinda

[belinda]

I got caught in a drenching rain other day took shelter in a shop were the owner trimmed all kinds of dogs,

I was talking to her and we got around talking about my wpilwpsy.

She said she saw me walking all the time.

She happenned to have two hairless dogs of her own in there.
She said I should get a dog for my epilepsy.
I told her couldn't afford $2,000 she had one dhe fainted.

We had a long talk talk shetold me about something were I might be able get one for free.
It's a group that rescues dogs and than gets them trained.
I told her I was severely allergic to dogs couldn't have one because they shed and she showed me her hairless dogs.

Im going to go back by her shop get name of the organization from her Monday.
My seizures are insreasing al ot since Im cutting back more on the phenobarb.
Belinda

[bernard]

Canine Assistants is another organization that offers seizure response dogs to those in need:

Following training of more than 90 general commands like picking up medicine and opening doors, seizure response dogs are taught specialized behaviors based on the type of seizure their owner experiences. For epilepsy patients with convulsions, which are sometimes violent in nature, the dogs are trained to get their owners safely to the ground, stay by their side and summon help or retrieve a phone.

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UCB Pharma, Inc., and Canine Assistants have entered into a multi-year partnership to sponsor seizure response dogs for epilepsy patients across the U.S. Under the sponsorship, UCB will provide support through Canine Assistants for the care, training and lifetime veterinary costs for all dogs given to epilepsy patients.

... Since 1991 Canine Assistants located in Alpharetta, Georgia has been providing assistance dogs at no cost to people with disabilities including epilepsy. The patients are selected based on their individual needs and the services the dogs can provide. For more information about Canine Assistants visit www.canineassistants.com.

Service dogs trained to help epilepsy patients