Diabetic Alert Certification must be completed by both the dog and the client and prior completion of all the steps of a service dog training program before scent training can even begin. Blood sugar levels in a diabetic spike and drop into dangerous levels that can be life-threatening. In each of these situations, the body has a specific smell that a dog can sense. Through scent training and specific chain training, we can set a scent “safety window.” We will teach the dog to alert outside of that safe zone. This scent training is done with your specific scent samples so a sample kit will be provided to you by All Stage Canine Development. Once we have set your window of highs and lows, we will begin our training for your desired alerts paired with the target scents. The actual scent training doesn’t take long because the dogs have a quick memory of scents. The alert training, however, can take months when you add in cues or behaviors to be linked to those scents.

If you need additional assistance such as to get help or get juice, the training program may take longer as we are adding many chains of commands.