A well trained beagle!
May 30th, 2006 by Jason
Weaver’s $8,000 investment in Belle’s training paid off dearly on the morning of February 7th, 2006. Weaver awoke that day feeling badly. Belle whined and pawed at her owner, but Weaver misinterpreted Belle’s actions as a sign that she needed to go out. Within minutes, he slipped into a diabetic seizure. Belle retrieved Weaver’s wireless phone and pressed the 9 key — which was preprogrammed to dial 911 — with her teeth, as she had been trained to do. Paramedics were on the scene within minutes. When Weaver regained consciousness, he was in the hospital and was told his blood sugar levels had dropped to 25, way below the normal range of 80-120.
Now if that were Toby, he would have simply eaten the phone, and then gone back to sleep……
the dog was probably going to eat the phone as well… the guy was just lucky that she decided to start eating the #9 side first.
My thing is, if you’re going to spend $8000 to train the beagle to smell “low blood sugar”, you’d think they could have also trained her so that her “I really need to pee!!!!!” signal isn’t the same as her “you’re about to die if you don’t fix your sugar level” signal.
Cool none the less.
I’m hooked on The National Geographic channel’s show “The Dog Whisperer”. That Ceasar guy really knows dog psychology, and a dog with a job/purpose is a happy dog, which kinda showed in her picture (to me, anyway).
Yes, Toby would have eaten the phone, and if I had passed out, he probably would have started gnawing away on me too. heh