The article I found is titled “Service Dog Gets His Own Photo in the Middle School Yearbook”. I found this article on the online database the UK library provides at http://eds.b.ebscohost.com.ezproxy.uky.edu. The article was written by Samantha Grossman and published by time.com.
The article first talks about the odd new face in the yearbook at Hector Garcia Middle School; a dog! The dog’s name is Taxi and he is a service dog to a young lady Rachel Benke. Rachel has been suffering from epileptic seizures for her whole life and had a corrective brain surgery when she was six. The surgery reduced the amount of seizures she has, but she still experiences them today. The reason Taxi is so important to Rachel is because Taxi can sense when Rachel will have a seizure “up to an hour and a half before it occurs”. Once Taxi senses she will have a seizure, he alerts her teachers and or parents, whoever is around. Taxi is with Rachel every single day at school, and the thought of adding Taxi to the yearbook started as a joke. Taxi has saved Rachel’s life twice already. One time occurred when Rachel was on trampoline and the other, when she was in a pool.
When I first read the title it automatically caught my interest. What could’ve been so special about this dog that he got a spot in the school yearbook? Its really a cool story. The fact that Taxi can predict when Rachel has a seizure is mind blowing to me. How is Taxi able to predict when this happens? What type of training can allow a dog to be able to do this? I could further my research to look into service dogs that are primarily for seizure patients, instead of service dogs in general.
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