The KESQ.COM News Channel 3′s Elyse Miller wrote a report about a family who normally use a Baby Monitor to ensure they know if their 9 year old daughter Makenzie is having one of the life threatening seizures she suffers with.

Recently the family received a “Seizure Response Dog” called Disco from Canine Assistance. This marvellous dog is trained to recognise when a person is having a seizure and will do everything it can to alert others of the problem. The dog will find someone else, run around in circles barking, and then literally pull the person toward the individual suffering the seizure.

Within 10 days of receiving Disco she has already saved Makenzie’s life when she had a seizure by attracting her sister’s attention and bringing her to her stricken sister.

If that isn’t impressive enough, the dog has also been trained to open doors, close doors and even to use the phone!!! Everything that might help the dog to raise the attention of someone to come help.

We thought it was interesting that Baby Monitors can help parents to look after older children with epilepsy, but found it fascinating that dogs can be trained so well and literally help save lives.

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