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Profiles
In memory of Mr Paul Doble who sadly passed away early this year.
In about mid 2000 I was in my Garage in
Muchea when one of my customers came in to get a couple of small repairs
and a service done to her car. She told me that she was moving to
Sydney, and now the car was taken care of all she had left to do was
find a home for her little dog.
Something told me that I wanted this dog, so
I said "I'l take it, she replied "have you ever seen it?' I said "no
but I want it" she then said "I will bring him down to meet you, but
after my ex-husband he's not keen on men".
The next morning she brought Scruffy to see
me, he came straight up to me and allowed me to pick him up, and
proceeded to give me heaps of kisses. Pat (the ladies name) said "I have
never seen him act like that with anyone before" I said "I just know
this little fellow and I are going to be real good mates".
Pat told me that Scruffy was booked for the
snip the next day and that she would like to keep him until she was
leaving and I agreed to this, However that afternoon Scruffy walks into
my office and jumps onto my lap. I phoned Pat and asked her if she knew
where Scruffy was, she said yes in the back yard I said no he's in my
office. A little while later Pat came in and said "I have filled the
hole he dug under the fence" and took him home. A couple of days later
Pat phoned to say that Scruffy was unhappy and was trying constantly to
get out, and if it was Ok she was going to let him out and see what he
did (she only lived just down the street), a few minutes later Scruffy
was in my office looking very pleased with himself. A short time later
Pat phoned and said she was bringing all his bits and pieces down
because he obviously had decided where he wanted to be.
This started what has proved to be one of
the highlights of my life, the bond between Scruffy and I is amazing, I
don't go anywhere without my mate. The first example of Scruffy's
ability and loyalty was when on a very hot day, I had skipped lunch and
gone for a ride around the fire breaks on my gopher, I started to feel a
bit woozy and the next thing I remember was waking up with the next door
neighbours and a couple of others trying to get me to drink water. I
asked what happened and was told that I had passed out and fallen off
the gopher and that Scruffy had gone and got them.
My diabetes that I was not the best at
managing was leading me to regular Hypo's and then quite often my BSL's
would go to the other extreme. I became aware that there were times when
Scruffy would become very agitated and start pawing me and licking me
and I thought that it was just my imagination that this corresponded
with my BSL's being to low or too high, I mentioned it to my doctor who
told me that dogs were doing this and also for epilepsy and that if I
learnt to take notice of scruffy I might find my diabetes management
would improve. When we found this to be the case my doctor gave me a
letter to carry stating that Scruffy was an alerting companion and also
notified Medic Alert to record Scruffy's details on my file and on my
card.
Up to this point I had never heard of a dog
doing this and I think if anyone had told me I would have been very
sceptical. For the next six years I took this for granted as the bond
between Scruffy and I just got stronger and then I heard of "Paws for
Diabetics" and it got me thinking that there was nothing PFD could do
for me because I had no problems with Scruffy and he is always accepted
wherever we go BUT what about all those others who could benefit from an
alerting dog, so I joined PFD not for what it could do for me, but for
what I might be able to do for PFD.
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