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Amanda’s Story

 Amanda lives with many medical conditions. She suffers daily from the effects of epilepsy,  impaired vision,  depression,  anxiety,  rheumatoid arthritis and other autoimmune disorders.

 To help Amanda  cope with these conditions, a service dog was recommended.

Cable, is due August 26, 2020.  Just like Amanda's two previous service dogs, Cable will be a Golden Retriever.  Once selected from the litter, Cable will head for training to learn how to assist Amanda with her daily medical challenges.

 
 How Does a Service Dog Help?

Our family could never have imagined what a positive impact a trained seizure-response dog would have on Amanda’s life!

Service dogs are trained to perform multiple life-saving tasks.  Amanda's first service dog, Kramer, was trained to pull the bathtub plug and run for help if Amanda was in distress.  Kramer saved her life no less than 12 times!

 
Amanda’s current service dog, Kira, stops her from walking out into traffic at the onset of a seizure and braces so that Amanda can lower herself safely to the ground when a seizure strikes.   Kira is also trained to hit an emergency button to summon help should Amanda go into a seizure and become unresponsive. 

 
Some of Kira’s daily tasks are to:

 -lick Amanda’s hand to help bring Amanda out of a seizure quickly. 
 
-lead Amanda to a seat should Amanda need to rest and recover after a seizure. 

-steer Amanda safely around objects she is unable to see due to her visual impairment.

-guide Amanda safely back home if she is disoriented after a seizure.
 

Kira is well-loved, but she will soon be eight and heading towards retirement in another year or two.  She will have put in a full working life as a service dog and will relinquish her role to a new pup.

 

The training of a service dog is incredibly labour-intensive and costly.  

 

Amanda will meet her new puppy at the end of the summer.  At eight weeks Cable will go into a board and train program for 18 months to two years.  This can cost up to $1,500 a month.  Cable will then become Amanda’s service dog-in-training.

 

Can you help support Cable’s intensive service dog training with a donation?  



Service dogs are considered medical equipment for their handlers.  Without a service dog Amanda would not venture out into the community the way she does now.  Her service dogs have given her a measure of confidence and independence she could never have otherwise achieved.  

 

Your donation will help put Cable through training so that Amanda never has to walk alone.