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UPDATE #7: 3-25-2024: Murphy is 8 months old today. He has grown so much. The last few months, Tedd and I have been training him and working with him on our own with the help of family and a trainer online. However, we are moving into working with my trainer in person as well as a local dog trainer to help with some basic obedience he's still struggling with. Tedd and I are not professionals and we are reaching the stage where we do need a professional trainer to work with Murphy in ways we cannot do on our own. Costs for training are high, especially when I go to take him to my service dog trainer in Illinois. Any help and support is appreciated. Thank you for your ongoing support❤️
UPDATE #6: Murphy is about to turn 5 months old. Time is FLYING. We’re trying to start regular online sessions with a trainer and primarily work with him at home. He started scent training this month, and he’s learned so many medical alerts already. He even will bring me apple juice! Online training sessions range around $100 each, so any extra help with that is very much appreciated. I can’t wait until he can be with me all the time.
UPDATE #5: Murphy turned 3 months old! How crazy is that?? Time is FLYING by. We’ve been working on puppy obedience, and he has been getting adjusted to all the changing elements in his young life. I’m hoping to start training sessions with the Diabetic Alert Dog trainer I found by the time he reaches 5 months, if not sooner. He’s smart and he is doing so well already. Single training sessions cost $140, and her board and train program where he stays with the trainer for a while and then comes back with me to work on the new skills is a bit more costly. Any donations to help with upcoming training costs would be much appreciated.
UPDATE #4: I brought home Murphy yesterday (9/12), and he is just the sweetest and I fell in love with him instantly. For a few months, I’ll be doing a lot of training on my own along with help from some family and friends and I’ll be attempting to get him acclimated to my workplace. Lots of training sessions coming up in the future to help him learn to be a medical alert dog! I greatly appreciate any continued donations as I go through training and all the puppy care. Thank you!
UPDATE #3: I FOUND A PUPPY!! Thank you for all the donations so far that allowed this to happen so fast! I still would love any help I can get with supplies and training coming up! Murphy will start actual medical alert training later on, and that will be another huge expense! For now, I’ll be doing self training and just focusing on bonding with my new puppy.
UPDATE #2: I am meeting with a breeder in Corydon, KY tomorrow!! The initial cost of a puppy will be quite expensive. The cost of this puppy, if I go with it tomorrow, will be $1800. I am very very close to my goal. The puppy is 5 weeks old right now, and I will be meeting him for the first time tomorrow. Over the next few weeks until I can take him home (hopefully), I will be ordering a service vest, food, treats, a leash, and various other items to make him feel at home! If anyone has any treats or a kennel or even a dog bed they are no longer using, I’ll take any help I can get! If I don’t end up going with this puppy tomorrow, I’m meeting a few other breeders around Indiana and Illinois over the next few weeks with puppies ranging from $1500-2000. Thank you for your ongoing support!
UPDATE #1: I met with a Diabetic Alert Dog trainer today (8/15/23) and I’m on the search for a golden retriever or Labrador puppy under 16 weeks old. Going through a certified breeder for service dogs will cost between $1,000-3,000 just to get the dog. Ideally the dog needs to be under a year old, preferably under 16 weeks. Bonding with a puppy is vital especially in service dog training.
Hello! Welcome to my GoFundMe! My name is Sydney, and I am in the process of getting a service dog. I plan on updating as I go, but as of right now, I’m in the process of finding a trainer nearby. Consultations, evaluations, setting up a training timeline and payment plan, and pairing me with a dog are the first steps I’ll be taking.
For those of you who don’t already know me, I was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes in 2011. Since that diagnosis, there have been plenty of ups and downs throughout this journey. I currently wear a continuous glucose monitor and insulin pump and go to a great doctor to help manage this disease. However, the stresses of life, everyday routine, emotions, and other issues in my health/mental health, cause my disease to be more complicated to manage. I am looking forward to working with a service dog to create a safety net of helping with alerting to the severe symptoms I experience every day as well as in my sleep. Although a dog is not a cure, it will make life easier and help manage my health better in so many ways. Recently in my life, I’ve been on my own. Not only will having a service dog help in the work environment and when I’m out and about around people, but when I’m alone in my own home, it can be trained to find and alert someone nearby in case anything were to happen. With my symptoms of both high and low blood sugars progressively getting worse and harder to manage, a service dog adds an extra sense of security to my life and will lower the overall stress I feel day to day when managing my health on my own.
What is a diabetic alert dog? Diabetic alert dogs are trained to smell the changes of chemicals in our bodies. First, they train in alerting to hypoglycemic situations by sniffing out a rise in isoprene coming from our breath. Isoprene is completely undetectable to humans, but dogs can detect it easily. And then they also detect the opposite! When hyperglycemic situations arise, they detect the rise of ketones in our bodies, giving a fruity and sweet smell off our breath.
Thank you for reading and supporting me in my journey to get a service dog. I am looking forward to what comes next and eventually having a companion at my side to make life drastically easier to manage in many ways. I will keep everyone updated on how to process is going! Starting out, all donations are going toward a dog and evaluations with a trainer!
UPDATE #6: Murphy is about to turn 5 months old. Time is FLYING. We’re trying to start regular online sessions with a trainer and primarily work with him at home. He started scent training this month, and he’s learned so many medical alerts already. He even will bring me apple juice! Online training sessions range around $100 each, so any extra help with that is very much appreciated. I can’t wait until he can be with me all the time.
UPDATE #5: Murphy turned 3 months old! How crazy is that?? Time is FLYING by. We’ve been working on puppy obedience, and he has been getting adjusted to all the changing elements in his young life. I’m hoping to start training sessions with the Diabetic Alert Dog trainer I found by the time he reaches 5 months, if not sooner. He’s smart and he is doing so well already. Single training sessions cost $140, and her board and train program where he stays with the trainer for a while and then comes back with me to work on the new skills is a bit more costly. Any donations to help with upcoming training costs would be much appreciated.
UPDATE #4: I brought home Murphy yesterday (9/12), and he is just the sweetest and I fell in love with him instantly. For a few months, I’ll be doing a lot of training on my own along with help from some family and friends and I’ll be attempting to get him acclimated to my workplace. Lots of training sessions coming up in the future to help him learn to be a medical alert dog! I greatly appreciate any continued donations as I go through training and all the puppy care. Thank you!
UPDATE #3: I FOUND A PUPPY!! Thank you for all the donations so far that allowed this to happen so fast! I still would love any help I can get with supplies and training coming up! Murphy will start actual medical alert training later on, and that will be another huge expense! For now, I’ll be doing self training and just focusing on bonding with my new puppy.
UPDATE #2: I am meeting with a breeder in Corydon, KY tomorrow!! The initial cost of a puppy will be quite expensive. The cost of this puppy, if I go with it tomorrow, will be $1800. I am very very close to my goal. The puppy is 5 weeks old right now, and I will be meeting him for the first time tomorrow. Over the next few weeks until I can take him home (hopefully), I will be ordering a service vest, food, treats, a leash, and various other items to make him feel at home! If anyone has any treats or a kennel or even a dog bed they are no longer using, I’ll take any help I can get! If I don’t end up going with this puppy tomorrow, I’m meeting a few other breeders around Indiana and Illinois over the next few weeks with puppies ranging from $1500-2000. Thank you for your ongoing support!
UPDATE #1: I met with a Diabetic Alert Dog trainer today (8/15/23) and I’m on the search for a golden retriever or Labrador puppy under 16 weeks old. Going through a certified breeder for service dogs will cost between $1,000-3,000 just to get the dog. Ideally the dog needs to be under a year old, preferably under 16 weeks. Bonding with a puppy is vital especially in service dog training.
Hello! Welcome to my GoFundMe! My name is Sydney, and I am in the process of getting a service dog. I plan on updating as I go, but as of right now, I’m in the process of finding a trainer nearby. Consultations, evaluations, setting up a training timeline and payment plan, and pairing me with a dog are the first steps I’ll be taking.
For those of you who don’t already know me, I was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes in 2011. Since that diagnosis, there have been plenty of ups and downs throughout this journey. I currently wear a continuous glucose monitor and insulin pump and go to a great doctor to help manage this disease. However, the stresses of life, everyday routine, emotions, and other issues in my health/mental health, cause my disease to be more complicated to manage. I am looking forward to working with a service dog to create a safety net of helping with alerting to the severe symptoms I experience every day as well as in my sleep. Although a dog is not a cure, it will make life easier and help manage my health better in so many ways. Recently in my life, I’ve been on my own. Not only will having a service dog help in the work environment and when I’m out and about around people, but when I’m alone in my own home, it can be trained to find and alert someone nearby in case anything were to happen. With my symptoms of both high and low blood sugars progressively getting worse and harder to manage, a service dog adds an extra sense of security to my life and will lower the overall stress I feel day to day when managing my health on my own.
What is a diabetic alert dog? Diabetic alert dogs are trained to smell the changes of chemicals in our bodies. First, they train in alerting to hypoglycemic situations by sniffing out a rise in isoprene coming from our breath. Isoprene is completely undetectable to humans, but dogs can detect it easily. And then they also detect the opposite! When hyperglycemic situations arise, they detect the rise of ketones in our bodies, giving a fruity and sweet smell off our breath.
Thank you for reading and supporting me in my journey to get a service dog. I am looking forward to what comes next and eventually having a companion at my side to make life drastically easier to manage in many ways. I will keep everyone updated on how to process is going! Starting out, all donations are going toward a dog and evaluations with a trainer!