Diabetes Jedi Support Dog Saves Life of Child

Diabetes Rescue Dogs

Volume Seven of The Old Farmer's Almanac for Children featured  this story about Luke and how his diabetes support dog Jedi saved his life :

THE NOSE KNOWS -

Luke, age 7, and his dog, Jedi, are pals, buddies, and best friends. Luke is diabetic, and Jedi is his Diabetic Alert Dog. Jedi is trained to use his nose to detect when Luke’s health is at risk and then alert an adult.

Late one night, Luke was asleep in a bed near his mother. Jedi was also nearby. Without his knowing it, Luke’s blood sugar level dropped—a danger to someone with diabetes. Jedi smelled the change in Luke’s breath and sprang into action. He jumped on and off the bed to wake Luke’s mother. When this didn’t work, he laid his body on top of hers. This woke her up. Then Jedi bowed; that’s his way of saying that Luke’s blood sugar is “low.” Luke’s mother was then able to care for him. 

You can download a colour pdf of this story and other great animal hero stories from The Old Farmer's Almanac for Kids website. 

How to Get a Dog Guide

Lion's Foundation of Canada provides Dog Guides to Canadians with a wide variety of different challenges. If you know someone who is insulin-dependent and has difficulty knowing when their blood sugar level gets too low, they can apply for a Diabetic Alert Dog Guide on the Lions Foundation of Canada Dog Guide website.

Lions Foundation Dog Guides Logo

If you would like to help someone like Luke get a Dog Guide, you can participate in a local walk for Dog Guides. All the money you raise goes towards the training and placement of Dog Guides with
Canadians with challenges. Communities host Walks in the Spring and Fall. Visit their Dog Guide Walk locations page to find the Walk closest to you.

No walk close to you? There are other ways you can help too! Check out the online Dog Guide gift shop for presents for yourself or your family. You can also organize a Dog Guide walk or fundraiser in your community, foster a puppy or just make a donation.

Have you a story about an animal hero? I'd love to hear it! Drop me a comment below.

Thanks for reading!

Sister Su

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Sky Dog - Movie Review

Love Fantasy Adventure? Perhaps Sky Dog Will Suit You!

Have you watched Sky Dog yet? Sky Dog starts with Josh, a high school senior, finding a dog going through the garbage at an airport after he's been told that he won't be recommended for his flight test. This movie has a scene that brings up a very important issue for pet owners - how they can be vulnerable to coercion when the life of their pet is threatened.

Sometimes people wonder why a person might surrender their pet for adoption. If someone in your life suddenly decides to surrender their beloved pet for no apparent reason, you might want to offer them a safe talk phone line to use such as the Kids Help Phone Line 1-800-668-6868 or the Seniors Safety Line 1-866-299-1011.

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YouTube Full-Length Canine Movies Which Might You Like Best?

This post has links to three free full-length dog comedies you can view on YouTube along with my mini-reviews. I also embedded the one I liked most in this post. Which of these dog comedies would you recommend people see? 

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Have You Seen These Three Dog Comedies?

Here are three full-length dog comedies you can see for free on YouTube:

• Angel Dog
• Sox-A Family's Best Friend
• Lenny the Wonder Dog

Which of these three did you like best?

Dog Comedy - Angel Dog - Review

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Several things appealed to me right away in this dog comedy description. Here is the description posted by popcornflixx on YouTube.

An uplifting drama with sorrow, sincerity, hope and humour...a journey of recovery for Jake Bryant, a man who has to learn to love and live again after he loses everything that matters to him. His inspiration to get off the sofa and go on living comes from somewhere Jake never would have expected: a lovable stray named Cooper. 

While it is not listed as an actual dog comedy, it does say that it is uplifting, and sometimes when you're in pain, you'd rather have an uplifting distraction rather than side-splitting, stitch-splitting laughter. I love that this movie has a stray dog rescuing a person. Quite often rescue dogs actually resue the person that thinks they are rescuing them!

Dog Comedy - Sox: A Family's Best Friend - Review

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Sox: A Family's Best Friend stars Aiden Potter and Anton Starkman as two boys newly united into a blended family. They each are having their own personal challenges getting used to being siblings and having a new parent. Enter Sox - a "talking" dog voiced by Steve Snyder who does not move his lips. In the beginning clips, this is a bit off-putting but is explained as being telepathy by Sox to the people he"talks" with. There are the requisite "bad guys" who are trying to capture Sox the dog who talks. One interesting thing I do not recall having seen in Dog comedies at all is the use of black and white versus colour when things are being seen through the eyes of Sox the dog. This was a cute family-friendly movie, that I might like to watch at least one more time.

Lenny the Wonder Dog

A dog implanted with a chip meant to make him incredibly smart is pursued by an evil scientist and his henchmen. posted by Family, there are some scenes that seem intended for the pedophile crowd. There are several dialogues with the dogs that allude to sex. a scene where the male protagonist sees a girl and squirts his drink all over his chest and another scene that would seem to suggest the young boy and girl invest some time together on a couch overnight. 

If you enjoy movies with Brechtian style diversions between scenes like ridiculous chase scenes reminiscent of the Monkees from the '60s or cartoon maps to show you where the characters are located between scene changes, you might enjoy the style of this show. 

Dog Movie - Book Comparison :Kayla

Looking for A Dog-Related Media Study? Try Kayla!

Based on the novel Three Dog Winter by Elizabeth A. Van Steenwyk, Kayla: A Cry in the Wilderness is available to view free on YouTube. This post has some useful links to help you create a great thematic study for your book club, or just to explore on your own.

If this book and movie stir an interest in your heart to help dogs get happy healthy homes, pop on over to the Facebook Group-Finding Them Homes Barrie and Area Helping Northern Ontario Dogs Find Homes or Alaskan Malamute Assistance League – Rescuing Alaskan malamutes in the USA

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The following synopsis is adapted from Dove::

Kayla is a family film that makes you feel good. It focuses on a young boy who still cannot accept his father’s eight-year-old disappearance and apparent death. He cries out for solace while keeping his mother and well-meaning stepfather at a distance. Then, one day, in the snowy Canadian wilderness, he encounters a wolf that looks exactly like the dog that led his father’s sled team. Despite the hostility of the townspeople, who fear the wolf will devour more of their livestock, the boy bonds with this dog, Kayla, who teaches him about love, loyalty, and self-sacrifice. 

Starring Tod Fennell as Sam McKenzie, Henry Czerny as Asa Robinson, Browen Booth as Althea Robinson, and Meredith Henderson as Jaynie Nightingale, the cinematography and costumes are reminiscent of the television series A Wind at My Back.

While you can watch Kayla for free on YouTube, there are several advantages to getting a copy of the DVD. The DVD of Kayla includes the following bonus features:

• Elizabeth  A. Van Steenwyk: Biography of the Author
• Kayla's Quebec: Historical Background
• Thoughts To Be Shared With Friends & Family

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Delightful Dog Related Cartoons by Chicken Soup Cartoonist Glasberger

Love Chicken Soup for the Soul Cartoons?

Cartoonist Randy Glasbergen created the delightful cartoons found in the pages of Chicken Soup for The Soul books. 

Glasbergen lived in Sherburne, New York, a small rural town, with his wife and three basset hounds. Glasbergen's cartoons are still being used around the world in presentations, textbooks, newsletters and all forms of social media thanks to his family and their desire to continue his legacy. 

Do you love Bassett Hounds too? If so perhaps you might take a minute and pop over to these Bassett Hound Rescues and see what you can do to help Bassett Hounds find loving healthy homes:

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Here is one of the delightful cartoons that his family posted on Twitter.

Meet cartoonist Glasbergen!

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— Randy Glasbergen (@RGlasbergen) March 14, 2021

About Randy Glasbergen 

 Glasbergen began his professional cartooning career at age 15. While still in high school, his cartoons were published regularly in many major magazines, including the Saturday Review, The Wall Street Journal, Kiplinger’s Changing Times, the Saturday Evening Post, Cosmopolitan, Weight Watchers, Reader's Digest, and New Woman. 

After two semesters of journalism studies at Utica College of Syracuse University, he left school to pursue a full-time career as a freelance cartoonist in 1976. Glasbergen's comic panel The Better Half (originated by Bob Barnes in 1956) was syndicated by King Features Syndicate for 32 years, starting in 1982. From 1982 to 1992, Glasbergen did the strip under the pseudonym "Jay Harris," so as not to confuse publishers who were familiar with his different style of humour and character design. ("Harris" was his wife's maiden name.) At the end of syndication, The Better Half was appearing seven days a week in approximately 150 print and online newspapers around the world. With newspapers losing more and more readers to the Internet, Glasbergen retired The Better Half at the end of 2014 to devote more time and energy to his cartoon licensing operation, Glasbergen Cartoon Service. 

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Clever Australian Shepherd Plays Treat Stealing Trick

Morty Mooches Treats!

Morty, the Australian Shepherd is seeming caught on video mooching treats or is he?

The dog’s owner says he wanted to do a test to see if his dog could resist taking a treat, even if he left the room. 

If this video touches your heart and you would like to help Australian Shepherds find forever homes, please visit New Spirit 4 Aussie Rescue (ns4ar.org).

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In the Rumble video below, a 4-year-old Australian Shepherd named Morty pauses only a few seconds before he gobbles up the treat. But he soon scurries over to the drawer where the owner keeps the treats. Morty is seen opening the drawer and grabbing another one, placing it where the old treat had been, He closes the drawer again and waits for his owner like nothing happened

 Whether Morty is cleverly trained or really mooching treats, this video from Rumble is truly a spot of sunshine on a cloudy day.

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