Service Dogs for Migraine Support

[@piperjaycie]

Yeah, let’s NOT train dogs, or anyone or anything, to throw blankets over the light on the nightstand. It’s probably hard enough getting out of a burning building when you don’t have a migraine.😳😳😳😳

[@sfrwriter]

I found this one strange indeed. Isn't it much easier to turn of the light yourself instead of getting your dog to throw a blanket over the light on the nightstand? I had a migraine alert dog too. She has passed away now, but she alerted, provided mobility assistance if I was hit with a migraine while outside and she was able to guide me home if my vision was blurred. There were a few more trained tasks but definitely not throwing blankets over lights.

[@tlockerk]

My pop does most of the laying across me task really well...until my feet fall asleep and wake me. Oh yeah, a well behaved Irish Wolfhound.

[@servicedogskidboot]

Thank you for this informative video. I trained my own service dog to help with three vestibular disorders as well as agoraphobia and it has been life changing. While Skidboot knows many tasks, from picking up dropped items, retrieval of items, deep pressure therapy, crowd control/providing a buffer, as well as several other tasks, he doesn’t provide any heavy mobility tasks due to his size (he’s a border collie). However, as you mentioned in the video, even smaller dogs can help with proprioception. Touching him, the feel of the leash or pullstrap in my hand, all help with proprioception.

[@shannonlightle4931]

EENP is a medical alert service dog organization that can train migraine support dogs. She needs to look into every organization before she makes blanket statements.

[@nikkiwunderlich3570]

I don’t know how old this video is, but I suffered from chronic migraines my dogs already a service dog for guiding me because I’m legally blind, but I wanna see about getting him trained for migraine alert I live in Minnesota

[@The_Wicked_Wookie]

Source some scent proof containers and swab daily with a medical journal to create hot and cold samples for the dog to learn what your migraines scent smells like.

[@dgonzalez6604]

Question.. can you play with the dog? Or is that not allowed? If so I don’t want one 😢😢😢😢

[@felixbuttonnose9050]

Of course you can! The dog just needs to know the difference between work time and playtime! I have 2 service dogs and they both get to play when they’re not working in public settings.😊