Diabetic Alert Dogs of America

I cannot say enough about DADA. They gave me a dog who truly saves my life everyday and loves doing it. He has been 100% since day one. Now this is 50 percent because of the work DADA does but 50 percent because of the training techniques that they taught me and we continue to do everyday. Athena & Tanner are THE BEST. They treated Rider like he was their own and even after delivery they continued to answer all of my questions. During training they kept me updated and worked on specific needs that I might have once he was delivered. Their level of professionalism, kindness, and love for what they do, is like no other. Rider alerts on me, my grandmother, and complete strangers with T1d. We get at least 20 compliments a day of “Wow that dog is so well behaved and so well trained!” I think the large majority of negativity comes from people who don’t want to put in the work. DADA sets a standard for what they expect the dogs to do. If you don’t enforce that standard your dog gets bored and that’s when problems could occur. Thank you DADA for sending me my best friend.

D.A.D.A. made sure I not only had the perfect dog that fits into my life but also the perfect dog to save my life! Today, Musketeer alerted when my level was a 128 and I told him I was fine, check back in 15 minutes. Usually, he checks back at EXACTLY 15 minutes!!!! But today, he checked back (placed his paw on my leg) after only 11 minutes. I told my husband I'll go ahead and test, just to see what direction my levels were going. After only 11 minutes, my blood sugar level had gone down to 78. My husband was commenting on my slurred speech and slowness of thinking by the time we had the puppy party a moment later. Musketeer does such an amazing job at his job! And he LOVES doing his job SO MUCH! Our children could be having a major play session with tennis balls and tug ropes and everything in the other room and Musketeer could be having the time of his life, but he will STOP playing with the children (teenagers) and come to see me if my levels aren't where they should be! Helping me is the BEST GAME EVER for him! Tomorrow is our 1 year anniversary of having Musketeer home with us! He has saved me from serious lows/needing an ambulance a dozen times or more, not to mention the zillions of times he's alerted to high levels or mild lows! My old internal medicine doctor had told me a D.A.D. would only be a waste of money. My current internal medicine doctor told me she wouldn't take care of my diabetes without me having Musketeer to assist her! I am so blessed to have Musketeer at my side. My husband is more confident about leaving the house for a bit longer period of time. And the entire family LOVES having Musketeer Puppy as a very VERY important member of our family!!! Thank you AGAIN!

Diabetic Alert Dogs of America brought us a wonderful, amazing, sweet and life saving dog, Ajax. He has helped our son tremendously. Christy from DADA trained Ajax and he is the happiest, sweetest, funniest and a critical Type 1 diabetes medical alert dog. He has saved my son numerous times. We have had Ajax for almost 3 years and are very thankful for him everyday. Thank you Diabetic Dogs of America and Christy for finding and training our wonderful Ajax.