Blood chemical profile: This will check your dog’s organ function and make sure that the liver and kidneys are functioning properly.These test that your vet may want to run are: Many times, your vet may also want to run other tests to make sure that there is nothing else going on. Many times, this disease can be easily diagnosed and identified based almost solely on symptoms and physical exam alone. And I would watch.If your dog suddenly collapses or you think that your dog has narcolepsy, they should see your vet right away. They could roam the country with a huge pack of super dogs, solving crimes and defibrillating people for free. However, I couldn’t get over the feeling that every dog in the world would really prefer to belong to either Nando Brown or Jo-Rosie Heffenden. Rescue dogs rescuing people is a formula that can’t go far wrong. Even if it never does what you say, not once, ever. But I won’t underestimate the power of a dog to transform someone’s life for the better, even if it can’t do your laundry. The programme was edited in a way that made the most of Emily’s and Alan’s symptoms at the start, and made them both seem virtually cured by the end. It would be fair to say I felt a little manipulated by proceedings. Pets and owners bonded, and everybody got what they needed: affection, loyalty and two walks a day. In Rescue Dog to Superdog, it arrived in the form of a last-ditch, 10-day bootcamp (another borrowing), just dog and expert trainer, after which everything seemed to fall into place. There came the inevitable moment – you will know it from shows such as Supernanny – when, after some initial progress, the participants lose momentum, and the mentor must be recalled. Meanwhile, Alan had renamed Parker, Duke. You can see the problem – it’s hard to discipline a dog when you’re lying on the kitchen floor. When Emily collapsed, Poppy treated it as a game, and became rambunctious. If the former was a definite asset, the latter was a bit of a drawback: Poppy needed to be taught to relax. For reasons never made clear, his last placement didn’t work out.Īs a result of her abandonment, Poppy was both adaptable and perpetually on high alert. But the threat of re-incarceration was real enough – we were told that it had already happened to Parker once. The three-month time limit seemed like a constraint that had more to do with programme-making than dog-training – I’ve been training the same dog for six years, without making any real headway. A three-month dog-training programme commenced, with Nando and Jo-Rosie mentoring, with the overhanging threat that failure might mean a return to life behind bars. Alan got a saintly, imperturbable lab called Parker. Archie appears to be a bit of a super dog – he does laundry.Įmily was paired with Poppy, a three-year-old boxer cross found wandering the streets in Ireland. Jo-Rosie’s earless pit bull Archie is living proof of that. In fact, the “hyper-attachment” that results from prior abandonment is one of the qualities that makes rescue dogs good support dogs. Natalie from Battersea Dogs and Cats Home said it was a myth that adult rescue dogs couldn’t be trained. It might restore some of her independence, if there were such a dog. “That bike behind you,” asked the interviewer, “is that yours?” Recalling her formerly active lifestyle, Emily became tearful, and then immediately went floppy, before she could even answer the question.Įmily needed a dog that could stabilise both her emotional state and her daily routine, but mostly she needed one that would sit with her while she was lying on the pavement, waiting for an episode to pass. This is, you can imagine, quite an emotion-triggering set of circumstances – one symptom bringing on the other, continually. Twenty-eight-year-old former nurse Emily was recently diagnosed with narcolepsy, and also cataplexy: she has brief, transient episodes of paralysis, up to 30 a day, brought on by high emotion. He required a pet that would motivate him and keep him company, but wouldn’t be put off by his tics and verbal outbursts. Alan, 29, had Tourette syndrome and lived alone, isolated from friends and family. And the challenges were indeed particular. Dog trainers Nando Brown and Jo-Rosie Haffenden – they sound like a crime-solving partnership – combed rescue kennels looking for mutts with the right qualities.
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