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7-year-old boy with Diabetes owes his life to a Service Dog

Dogs save lives every day. Just ask 7-year-old Luke, whose service puppy, Jedi, used his training to alert Luke's family when danger struck. Luke, who was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, has a glucose monitoring system that keeps track of his blood sugar levels, and his family keeps watch in case they become dangerously low. But as Luke and his mother slept last week, Luke's blood sugar started to dip — and Jedi was quick to take action. "Jedi jumped off the bed, then back on again. Though I felt him do this, I didn't wake up," Luke's mother, Dorrie,  wrote in a Facebook post . "Then Jedi laid on me. I woke up." Jedi then bowed, which he is trained to do if Luke's levels are about to dip.  At first, Dorrie told Jedi to go back to sleep. Then, when "the sleepy fog started to wear off," she realized something was wrong — Luke's blood sugar had dipped to 57. Thanks to Jedi's quick alert, Luke was able to take a glu...