Diabetic alert dogs meet their owners for the first time, start bonding process

OAKVILLE, Ont. — Just minutes after Carrie Lemay met her new dog, Freckles, she says the black lab starting frantically pawing and jumping up on her. Freckles wasn’t being disobedient — she is a diabetic alert dog, trained to detect low blood sugar in people like Lemay, who has Type 1 diabetes. After being “alerted,” Lemay then tested […]