Today was the second year we have walked in the JDRF Walk to Cure Diabetes and I figured it was going to be a crazy day of alerting for Hope. After all, there were probably a thousand people there and you've already heard stories of how she alerts to people everywhere we go.
I was wrong.
We had a lot of people who came up and asked us exactly what Hope could do...lots of people who asked if their blood sugars were out of range, but she didn't alert to a single one of them.
Then, as she was sitting under the table waiting for the walk to begin Hope began alerting. First the paw, then the whining, then trying to run away...which she has never done before.
I finally grabbed her leash and let her go, wondering what in the heck she was doing. Hope initially headed across a field and went where Bella was playing with her grandpa, so I (mistakenly) assumed she just wanted to make sure Bella was okay, but then she sniffed the ground a couple of times, made a sharp turn and right up to a boy playing ball...and alerted...REALLY ALERTED. She pawed, she licked, she tried jumping up on him, with me yelling SIT as firmly as I could.
I asked the boy if he was diabetic and he said he was, so I explained what Hope does and told him his blood sugar was probably off and should be checked. He immediately ran to his family to check.
I didn't see the boy again during the walk so I have no idea what his blood sugar level was, but I have no doubt it was off...Hope hasn't been wrong yet.
What really amazed me was the fact that this was the first time in public that Hope has ever alerted to a person in a crowd then physically hunted them down to give them a personal alert. I wish you could have seen her..she was like a dog on a mission!
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