Diabetes has become more and more of a problem in the U.S. According to the American Diabetes Association 300,000 people will die this year from diabetes. That's more than breast cancer and AIDS combined. Type 1 diabetes is the more serious form of diabetes and the onset is typically diagnosed in children. For some kids, like my brother, they struggle with hypoglycemic unawareness. That's when you can't feel when your blood sugar is dangerously low. Read more about diabetes...

      Red Alert Dogs for Diabetics (R.A.D.D.) was started after we were scammed for $17,000 (See in the Courts). I started Red Alert to help families that were scammed like us, and to help other families so that no one would have to go through what we did. See R.A.D.D. goals for more info.

 

You can visit our trainers website at www.alertservicedogs.com

Make the Magic Happen is a fundraiser magic show for Red Alert Dogs for Diabetics. Tickets are just $10. Call 303-368-0325 to get yours.This is a show you cant miss! Click here for more info.

 

 

Whats New for Red Alert

RADD has been busy this summer helping 6 year old girl get a very special dog named Princess Shasta. Thanks to a grant from Noble Oil we were able to purchase Princess, have Alert Service Dogs train her, and then my brother Jason spent a month this summer with Princess to see if she could alert to a real life diabetic lows. It was cool of Jason to take Princess with him even when she was wearing her pink collar.  Princess is Bichon Frise and Schnauzer, which is definitely a different type of service dog than most people are used to seeing. But she is one of the best service dogs around. At 5 months old she is already able to give her trained bark signal for a diabetic low. Princess is very happy medicine for Ayla, who has been hospitalized 5 times this year with diabetic complications, plus she has to have heart surgery to fix her aortic valve.

 

RADD gets a request for help every single day. We are so sorry that we don't have the resources to help everyone the way we have been able to help this young girl. Please consider donating so that together we can make a difference in the lives of people struggling with the complications of an auto-immune disease called type 1 diabetes.

 

 

 

 

 

  
In the Courts       The Missouri Attorney General has filed a lawsuit against Heaven Scent Paws onbehalf of our family and others around the country. I had sold almost $17,000 in lemonade for a service dog for my brother. Heaven Scent Paws has every cent of those donations and we have nothing. We had to return my brother's dog after several experts evaluated him as a fear/bite risk dog with no scent training and no ability to learn. Plus he actually did bite my brother. The next hearing is May 2009. The courts are in the process of taking depositions and getting ready for a trial. When they set a trial date, we'll let you know. Read more...