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Start your own Parade of Pets
Start a circle of pet photos around the walls of your school, starting at the office door on one side, and weavng around the school until it ends on the office door on the opposite site. For students to post photos of their pets, or the pets of others, will cost $3 per photo. Your goal? To make a Parade of Pets that circles the school, providing a child somewhere with their own life-saving alert dog puppy.
To get started click the image to the left to make it bigger. Print as many as want. When someone donates have them fill out the page, attach their photo, and post them around your school. When you're all done you can send the donations to Red Alert through our charity sponsor RandomKid. donation page.
Feel good factor: For $800, you can purchase an alert dog puppy for an at-risk diabetic child, and for every adiditonal $25 raised on top of that, you can have the dog trained. The result? Protecting the life of a child, not to menion removing their constant fear of death.
July 1st 2008 was my daughter's last seizure. That was when our 3 month old service dog, Teddy Bear, “got” his job and my daughter has been safe ever since. Now at 10 months old he alerts night and day - he does not stop until she is safe. He goes everywhere with us and is so pleasant and wonderfully behaved. Such a pleasure - he has lovely manners in public. I was at my daughter’s skate class when a mother, whom I do not know, came up to talk to me. She wanted to tell me that I looked beautiful and so much healthier. Everyone had seen the physical toll that the anxiety over my daughter’s health had taken on me. She commented that all of the mothers had talked about our service dog, Teddy Bear. He is a wonderful dog, but more I look healthier because I have let go of the constant fear and angst that went with my daughter’s health issues. She is healthier, her coloring is beautiful, she has gained needed weight, she smiles and plays… She is as safe as I can make her - which is all I ever wanted. What we needed was our dear Teddy Bear. 7 months 6 days without a severe low or seizure. 7 months 6 days without gel or glucagon or 911 calls. What a difference a year makes! Thank you Red Alert for helping us get Teddy Bear.
(Teddy Bear is Red's younger sibling.)