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Service Dog Academy

Specializing in Diabetic Alert Dog training. Pet and service dog training utilizing only strict positive reinforcement methodology.

11/05/2025

After seeing democratic election results come in from across the US, I finally have a tiny little inkling of hope that love, compassion and caring for one’s neighbor might just be back and the fight against authoritarianism and the oligarchy can truly begin.

11/03/2025

As some of you know, the dogs and I were poisoned by a drone spraying pesticides. Since then I have been having increasing difficulty breathing, waking up almost every night around 2-3 am unable to breathe in addition to daily cracking, wheezing and popping in my chest. I do not have health insurance because I spent that money on keeping my dogs alive during the days following the initial exposure. I was looking forward to having health insurance again and being able to take care of myself but now that it’s looking like the ACA subsidies are going to expire,I will not be able to afford health insurance. I am ONE person and almost every single plan on the ACA website requires over $15,000 in expenses either through high monthly payments or high deductibles. This is what the democrats are fighting for. $15,000 a year just for healthcare for ONE person is unconscionable.

10/31/2025

Just one of my students has told me what her new insurance premium through the ACA will be. It has gone from $328 a month to over $2700 a month. She is ONE person. ONE. She will die without her medication. Let that sink in. This is what Democrats are fighting for. If you are affected by this too, please direct message me and I will share your story.

10/30/2025

I can’t believe I’m reposting Marjorie Taylor Greene but she’s admitting there is NO REPUBLICAN PLAN TO FIX HEALTHCARE. She’s posting a screen shot of a family of 5 (2 parents with 3 kids) who would have to pay over $64,000 a year for an ACA plan. Let that sink in… $64,000. This is what entrepreneurs and small business owners are facing.

10/29/2025

If you are one of the people that think getting rid of the ACA subsidies isn’t going to prevent people from getting health insurance, you are sorely mistaken. If I cannot get a subsidy next year I will not be able to afford health insurance and Service Dog Academy will be done for. My CURRENT price for insurance without a subsidy is $895 a month, that doesn’t include the new increases that will start on January 1. Could you afford that every month for ONE PERSON in addition to thousands in deductibles? I cannot. Health insurance is completely unsustainable for entrepreneurs, especially those without spouses to shoulder the burden of their medical insurance that covers preexisting conditions. My small business and I will be a victim of Project 2025 if Democrats don’t keep up this fight. 17 years of award winning work will go down the drain.

10/18/2025

Why did I start training medical alert dogs? Because I needed one myself and no one would help me train my own. That was back in the 2000s. Ugh I’m old. But it gives me so much more experience to draw on, like the coughing and wheezing of a nighttime asthma attack at 3:45 am in the morning because I forgot imitation crab had wheat in it and the ramifications of treatment with medicine leaving me feel like I’ve just had 5 cups of coffee. Who needs sleep anyway?

10/12/2025

I might become a meme. And yes, I’m driving it like this. Might even park it in downtown for a couple hours everyday. The drone operator still has yet to contact me to apologize.

10/05/2025

A former sheriff deputy was arrested in Tennessee for DWI while having a low blood sugar episode. The guy was clearly wearing an insulin pump, asked for sugar, verified low by ems and the officer STILL charged him with DUI. The system is so broken. Be careful out there.

10/04/2025

Grandma Service Dog Academy got her pacemaker installed yesterday for her afib and while she was in surgery I roamed the hospital. I was stopped time and time again from people telling me how much my therapy dogs helped them while they or their family members were in the hospital. I just agreed with them even though Sampson was clearly wearing a service dog vest and not a therapy dog one. I figured it was better to just keep the light in their eyes lit as they talked about how much Sampson meant to them than try to clear up the confusion between service and therapy dogs. Does anyone else just placate sick people’s happiness in a hospital environment too? I’ve done it for years but never really talked about it.

10/03/2025

Grandma Service Dog Academy officially has a pacemaker for her afib. She’s in the recovery room now. When we work with a disability it’s different from a lot of other organizations. A number of the conditions we have trained alert dogs for have been for our own medical or personal family members needs.

10/01/2025

After being told by seven different law firms that they don’t take cases like mine in which one if them outright said me being unable to eat wheat anymore was a “dietary choice” I started questioning myself. Turns out, the insecticide does cause damage to gut bacteria and even the lining of the gut and even causes anorexia, which explains why I now have very little interest in food. Eating is just something I do to keep myself alive. I find very little pleasure in consuming food anymore. Wonder what this has done to the dogs?

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Waterloo, IL
62298

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+12063559033

Website

http://www.servicedogacademy.com/

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