Meet Chester

Meet Chester! He is going to be my Diabetic Alert dog. We saw that he had the potential while we were watching him for my cousin Madison. He started going over by our other dog Oliver who is currently struggling with end stage congestive heart failure he was licking his face and spinning around right before Oliver passed out at first we thought he was causing him to pass out and then we realized he was predicting that he was going to pass out; then he moved on to scenting my low blood sugars randomly.  Initially we thought it was a coincidental but then he did it again and we realized he was trying to tell me something was wrong. Chester soon started to kind of become attached to me thinking of me as his person; following me around and being a “Velcro dog” a term used for dogs who need constant attention and affection. Chester since then has started coming in stores, library’s, and started basic manner training. He is doing a fantastic job. He is going in stores like a pro, no barking, no accidents, and is a complete gentleman. The only store I haven’t taken him in is Walmart… No dog deserves that 😉! He is great in all the other stores he’s been in Barns and Noble, Target, Ross, Vons, Gas stations, Post office, hobby lobby, Michaels, sports clips, home goods, ulta, and he even went with me to get my prom dress altered and in Claire’s to pick out the jewelry. Shortly after he started scenting my low blood sugars my dad gave Madison’s mom; my Aunt Jilyn a phone call explaining what Chester was doing. She then spoke to Madison; Chester’s previous owner, about letting me keep Chester because he is my one shot at being able to have a diabetic alert dog. Of course, she said I could keep him being the amazing cousin she is. And I couldn’t have gotten to where I am with out her. That was such an amazing and selfless thing to do to help me. I can’t thank her enough. So that leads me to donations! I just wanted to give thanks to a few people for helping me fund my Diabetic Alert Dog training! To get Chester to be Chester the blood sugar tester, he will have to go into A LOT of training. Madison adopted Chester from a shelter, in his first home he was abused so he has special classes for that; he is currently taking starter class to learn simple commands like sit, stay, and come. He then has to take an intermediate, advanced, service dog , individual training classes and then after all of that we start scent training. We will have to go to Utah to go to “Tattle Tail scent dogs” to teach Chester how to alert me for blood sugar problems.