SEIZURE ALERT K9
DOGWISH is placing K9s that are specifically trained to detect and alert to abnormal brainwave and body function activity up to 6 six hours before actual seizure experiences, or other abnormal neurological disruptions take place. This gives the recipient time to seek medical attention, and potentially resolve the situation before it occurs. Many of our clients actually claim that the amount and severity of their problems have greatly diminished and in some cases resolved, since receiving and handling our K9s. They have been able to cut down and stop using many of the medications that have produced problems with them at the same time.
This originally occurred as the result of training dogs for clients stricken with autistic developmental disabilities. Through the training process where we trained the dogs to be sensitive to the actual needs of each handler we started receiving reports detailing the affect that our K9s were having on them, especially in the area dealing with their uncontrollable emotional outbursts, meltdowns, and seizures. Since the K9s I was placing were having this affect on their handlers, I seriously investigated each situation to find out what exactly was happening, and what we were doing through our training that caused this phenomenon, and found some specific details that were consistent throughout.
Having been involved in the study of canine behavior for some thirty years now with both domestic and wild dogs, locally, nationally, and internationally, we have been able to comprehend and inductively compile a complete understanding of how the canine brain receives, processes and responds to life in our known world.
We have also researched, compiled, and compared the continuing studies from International Universities, Institutes, and Research Centers from a biological, physiological, neurological, and psychological perspective, as they strive to find answers to the numerous disabilities related to brain and body functioning disabilities such as Autism, Epilepsy, Cerebral Palsy, and numerous mental afflictions and disabilities in humans. We have compared the information and findings from these many sources, with the answers we have found from our own studies conducted with the many dogs we are constantly training for people with disabilities.
At the same time we have worked with a complete spectrum of behaviors daily, presented to us by concerned clients, who have brought their dogs to us for behavioral development, conditioning, replacement, transformation, and rectification. Many of these people have sought lesser means to resolve their problems and, having failed have come to us as a last or final resort.
We have taken their dogs and succeeded with dramatic results where others have failed because our training has affected changes in the mental framework, capacity, ability, drive, and desire to intelligently and voluntarily perform. Our training has uniquely affected and produced permanent changes in the mentality and behaviors of the dogs we have trained that is needed and desired by our clients.
The specific cause for these phenomena is the ability I have been able to create to stimulate and engineer mental growth, development, and responsiveness from animals that either:
- Didn't have the capability for this mental development before our training
- Possessed brains that to a great extent were not being used, (where their mental capacity to learn and perform lay dormant and not stimulated because the DNA in their brain cells which was not being actively used to stimulate the brain to learn, communicate, etc, (because of long term inactivity and caused by lack of development and usage in the dogs personal background of ancestry who were not trained and worked with)
- Possessed brains whose processes had partially shut down from stress and trauma
- Possessed brains that were slow in developing
Each week we receive a set of new dogs with various mental problems that we are paid to teach to:
- control their emotional problems,
- learn how to stop, focus, receive instruction, follow that instruction
- learn new behaviors
- transfer patterns of unacceptable behaviors to new acceptable behaviors
- and literally transform their behaviors
In order to be effective and successful we work with each dog to:
- learn how to enhance and use their mental capacity
- to learn how respond to our conditioning,
- enhance their self image and role in the pack or family,
- raise their level of intelligence and individual maturity,
- change their self image and role in order to become more functional and compliance,
- and become a more positive part of the relationships with their human counterparts that they share and experience.
In order to be capable of responding positively in training, each dog must learn how to
- Relax and then focus
- Stimulate and use their brain
- expand its ability to receive understand and respond appropriately to our instruction
- increase their ability to use their conscious mind to respond voluntarily to our conditioning
Their success in doing this is achieved directly as a result of the conditioning exercises we teach them as we literally:
- attack the conscious and subconscious mind of each dog,
- forcing it to respond directly to our training,
- intensely motivating and focusing each response with positive rewards, which produce mental clarity and further stimulation,
- and give the dog a further capability to progress.
As a result of our training these dogs have learned:
- To expand their brain's potential to focus, receive, understand, follow, and perform tasks based on verbal communication, electro-magnetic stimulus, and brain wave inductive energy
- Develop the ability to communicate dynamically on several levels using several dimensions of communication
- Develop the ability to use their own thoughts to do intelligent complex problem solving
THE PROBLEM
I have been appalled at many of the articles where I have read how other trainers have trained dogs to alert people around them when their handlers had a seizure. This does nothing for the person suffering from this condition. The Master Trainer for the Paws with a Cause Disability Organization, a major non-profit Corporation training numerous K9s for the American Disabled Community has openly pronounced his skepticism about trainers of Seizure Alert or Detection K9s, stating that this field of endeavor is highly subjective, with inconclusive results, and inconsistent K9 performance. I have agreed based on what I have read and heard about the training of these K9s, and until my own K9s proved me wrong did not attempt to openly train dogs for this concern. I have since realized that these people were "in error" because of their own lack of knowledge about the brain, how it works, and how to affect change within the brain and its many processes.
So, how do you train a dog to detect when somebody is going to have a seizure?
This is a question that has captured the world's attention. I remember asking myself that question over and over, for days, weeks, and months at a time. The answer lies in the neurological understanding of why people have seizures, and how they develop a seizure like condition. It isn't enough to teach a dog how to alert when somebody starts to have a seizure. We want to understand why and how mental disorders develop and occur. We need to understand what actually happens in the brain to cause the epileptic condition, and produce an epileptic seizure, in order to develop a comprehensive strategy with our dog training to combat and counter affect the symptoms and development of seizures in potential and active recipients that are and will be working and handling our trained seizure K9s.
For some years we had not intentionally produced Seizure Alert K9s, because of the controversy involved in the development of these dogs. Many experts were very skeptical about the ability of a dog to really be capable of alerting when someone was going to have a seizure, and until I could present a scientifically sound presentation, showing how I could produce a K9 that would consistently recognize and respond correctly to this serious concern, I did not wish to proceed and produce K9s in this field. However, as we trained dogs for people afflicted with autism, and other developmental disabilities, who were also plagued with severe seizures, we began to get thankful reports about how their seizures had lessoned, became more controllable, and sometimes stopped. After some years of investigation, further research, and confirmation, we now know that we can produce Seizure Alert K9s that will greatly help every person who handles them. Further, with our knowledge, we have found several links between our knowledge of how the brain works, and our abilities to intercept the processes, stimulate change, and correct their deficient errors through contact and work with our K9s.
WHO ARE WE?
Besides having been The California Superior Court and Multi-County Behaviorist K9 experts for 20 years, as Multi-National and World Champion Police K9 (Schutzhund) Champions, we have become National leaders in the field of Service Assistance K9s for people with neurological disabilities.
WHAT HAVE WE DONE?
We used hundreds of dog/client teams and some five years of work to develop a strategic system of behavior that we used to break into, focus, modify, and pattern the subconscious natural responsiveness in the dogs we trained, and the response is phenomenal.
Through my research I inductively dissected the brain and its many parts and processes, the related glands and the Neuro/muscular system affected in the body by the brain, into an understandable comprehensive model. I then use this model to develop a working psychology, showing how the related thought process, the learning process, the decision making process, and the performance process, all working together, used to train K9s for perfect performance. Guess what, they did! Through that process, besides becoming the undisputed leaders in our field, we accomplished something that no one else before us had been able to do; to develop a model to understand the actual specific biological processes used by all animals for their minds and bodies to receive, process, and create behavior. We have used this knowledge to teach our K9s to understand and work with the severe physical and mental problems presented by the disabled community we serve.
Besides becoming recognized as world leaders for training Police K9s, and behavioral dog training worldwide, we also developed a program for training Assistance K9s that launched us into the work of training K9s for the disabled community with great success, because the knowledge we have gain which we test, expand, and apply everyday with our training gives us a cutting edge in many ways over the rest of the field.
THE PROCESS
Being a psychologist I have formulated our dog training to be therapeutic and healing. It is done in such a way as to capture, focus, and control the attention of the conscious mind of both the K9 and its handler, and at the same time program and coordinate their emotions and thought patterns, teaching them simultaneously to relax and intensify, under control.
The first step in training each K9 is to teach them to stop and relax physically, and emotionally. This prepares the K9 to focus, receive, and respond to commands in a proper mental/emotional state of mind. We call "going into training mode". It does produce a modified state of consciousness in the mind of the K9 which makes them much more sensitive, focused, and trainable. It has greatly enhanced our training program with all dogs we train.
The strategy we use for training teaches the K9 to become sensitive to the movements, smells, and electro-magnetic energies of the handler, and at the same time teaches the handler to project and focus their thoughts and energies into the K9.
- As each recipient would learn and use the techniques I prescribed for handling their dogs, the effect of those exercises they used to maintain the training in their dog also appeared to have had the effect of stabilizing the workings of their own mind.
- By working with a K9 whose brainwave (consciousness) and consequently body responses had been altered and controlled by the conditioning they had received in order to go into what we call "training mode", the dogs actually communicated with the handlers through their controlled behavior, and helped the handlers to do the same, which has had the affect of promoting balance and stability in their brain functions.
I have now been able to use this conditioning with my K9s to work with a wide spectrum of mental/emotional disorders, disabilities, and developmental disabilities in both children and adults with tremendous success, because through the conditioning experience, what the client actually learns is how to work with and control their own mentality and body functioning. Our K9s can actually:
- Smell the difference between normal and abnormal body smells
- Feel the abnormal electro-magnetic energy changes as the brain begins to send abnormal signals which the body projects,
- See the difference between normal and abnormal muscular-neural movement,
- Hear the difference in normal and abnormal body functions (breathing, etc.),
and respond with understanding and instant clarity to what is happening with the afflicted person. To confirm our findings we contacted field experts like Doctor David Kelso, a leading Medical Administrator, and the Vice President of the American Red Cross, to confirm our findings. After explaining how we able to train our K9s to be "brain wave" sensitive, Dr Kelso flew out and spent a week training seizure dogs with us. As a result he confirmed our findings and is using them in his University lectures, and stays in contact with us for further research and investigative concerns in this area of work, where we are leading the field.
Having been involved in the study of canine behavior for some thirty years now from both domestic and wild dogs, locally, nationally, and internationally we have been able to comprehend and inductively compile a complete understanding of how the canine brain receives, processes and responds to life in our known world.
Last year, along with the K9s I trained for other seizure afflicted persons, I have taken two young men who were beset with severe seizures, and had them live with me. These two men would have severe seizures two or three times a week before they came to live with me, and one of them almost died this past year from the results. Their situation was very serious. By daily teaching them how to handle seizure K9s properly, and to work with them on a daily basis; how to eat correctly, breathe correctly, and think correctly, we were able to reduce the amount and severity of their seizures about 95%. During the process we were able to actually detect those behaviors leading up to potential seizures with the help of our K9s, up to some hours before each potential occurrence, and as a result either stop or control each occurrence with great success. As a result, each of these young men has returned to their families and are now enjoying normal lives.
We presently are working with 2 young women in the same condition whose lives have literally been stopped by their seizures. One of these women was California's #1, and the Nations #8 ranked Basketball player, a Graduate from USC who is now committed to help us train K9s for the disabled.
WHAT WERE THE RESULTS?
We took our diversified experience, coupled it with our knowledge and ability to create behaviors in dogs, and used it to make each K9 we place extremely sensitive, alert, and function able for a variety uses as the same time. Our recipients love them! As we did so, and our recipients called us with unbelievable reports of success with their dogs and we realized we had the ability to do things others had never done. For instance, our trained K9s are "brainwave and body functioning" sensitive, and can detect normal and abnormal states of brain and body activity with 100% accuracy, as proven over the past 5 years of field documented experience. Our Seizure Alert K9 program has become a tremendous success.
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