An ‘Incredible’ Alabama Dog Detects 5-Year-Old’s Low Blood Sugar 5 Houses Away

An Alabama dog is receiving praise and a new toy for a job well done. 

“Watch this incredible alert that I make as I tell my mom that my girl is in trouble and needs our help for low blood sugar,” the dog Tracker “narrates” in a now-viral TikTok. “Here’s the thing, my girl’s not in the house. She’s five houses away playing inside with one of her neighborhood friends.”

Tracker, a diabetic alert dog, is trained to alert his owners when 5-year-old Paislee has low blood sugar. However, Tracker typically alerts when Paislee is nearby. 

“None of the alarms that normally sound were going off,” the narration continues. “I was just letting my mom know we should go check on my girl. She’s heard stories of dogs doing things like this, but I’ve never done this before.”

In the video, Tracker heads downstairs and waits by the door before beginning his mission.

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“Now mind you, I did not walk my girl down to this house,” the narration notes. “I have no idea what house she’s in, she left on her own.”

After exiting the front door, Tracker takes notice and sniffs the footprints in the snow that matched Paislee’s. A quick potty break later, Tracker walks down the sidewalk, smelling the path side-to-side. A few moments later, Tracker and his mom make their way to the porch of the friend’s house.

“Little did I know my girl had already treated this low [blood sugar] before I came down,” Tracker’s narration says. “But I still had to see her in the flesh and know that my girl was okay.” 

Next, Paislee and her friend visited Tracker at the front door. After getting some pets, Paislee returned inside to play some more. Tracker wanted to join the kids inside, but his mom blocks his way.

“Mom made me go home, at least she gave me this really cool nice new bone that I love so much and such a big reward for doing an incredible job,” the narration says.

“I was just cleaning and out of nowhere he came and started pawing at me,” Shelby Landreth, Tracker's mom, told AL.com. “I’ve heard stories of dogs being able to smell for miles, and I said there’s only one way to find out.”

She added: “Being that it had just snowed, we could actually see him tracing her scent and following the footsteps all the way down the neighborhood to the neighbor’s house.”

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The video has garnered over 60,000 views and 5,000 likes. Landreth's TikTok page, @shelbylandreth178, follows Paislee and Tracker’s relationship. The account has over 5,000 followers and 27,000 likes. In a follow-up video posted to the account, Landreth says the reaction from viewers is ‘mind-blowing’. 

“I have been told by trainers that dogs can actually smell for miles,” she continues. “It’s kind of mind-boggling to wrap your head around if you haven’t seen it.”

“Short answer is he just picked up on the smell,” she adds.

Instead of a service dog, the family could have opted for current technology to track Paislee’s blood sugar. However, insulin pumps and glucose monitors can be slow or malfunction. Tracker, on the other hand, is much quicker.

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“A service dog can smell when there’s a change and let us know before it happens or when it’s dropping,” Landreth told AL.com. “Tracker beats technology by about 15 or 20 minutes. If you’re using technology, it does have a lag time, but Tracker can pick it up exactly when it hits that point, or even if it’s headed that way, which is just super helpful.”

Landreth added: “I think it just brings a lot of awareness to how incredible service dogs can be and what a tool they can be for people. I think that some people don’t realize just how far of a reach the world of service dogs has.”

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