My qualifications for training my own diabetes alert dog

Trained K9 Police dogs and handlers for around a decade for various departments in the North Texas area.  Established certification standards for said dogs and handlers and was a certifying official.  While the founder of the group was of questionable integrity, the other members of the group were and have high standards of integrity.

Was trainer and handler for the number one obedience beagle in the country according to various ratings from approximately 1988-1996 (depending on the ratings organization).  Number 1 according to the National Beagle Club in 1990.

Quoted in Karen Pryor’s “The New Art of Teaching and Training”, Don’t Shoot the Dog, Second Edition.

Taught obedience classes for the Dallas Obedience Club and the Dallas Community College District.

Diagnosed with diabetes in 2002 and have been on an insulin pump since 2004.

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