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Alexis is a smart, funny four year old little girl who never meets a stranger. She was born with septo
optic dysplasia and is legally blind. She has over come many odds that doctors didn't think possible and handles everything
with a very happy attitude, in June of 09 Alexis started having seizures she has had 5 since June the last two have been
when she is in bed in the early mornings. I decided to look into getting her a seizure dog to alert me in the event of
a seizure in case I'm not in the same room as her. I knew it was going to be a hard processes due to the cost of service dogs(
I also was hoping for a German Shepherd as protection for her when she is old enough to go outside by herself) I decided one
day while I was on the computer to play around and Google German Shepherd puppies in Ak and came across Alaska Dog Boarding
& Training, Inc. Right away I called and talked to Brigitte and was able to meet with her and Eagle that day! The next
morning she called me and said that her daughter Destiny wanted to donate Eagle to Lexi and help train him to be a best friend
and seizure dog to Lexi. We are so grateful to the Lytle Family it takes truly amazing people to do what they did. We
were told that it could take up to two years to get a service dog.
Our goal is to raise money for the gas it
is going to take for Brigitte to drive from Palmer to Anchorage, training and to send us out of state to gain
more education about training a Seizures Alert Dog.
Looking around in the US, a Seizures Alert service dog is priced from
$20,000 to $40,000. Our Goal is to raise $10,000 for Lexi & Eagle's training. Thank You to everyone who
has taken the time to read this and for all of your support and donations!!!
Jennifer and Lexi
We will be posting update's on Eagle & Lexi's training experience together.
Thank You again to everyone!
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name: JENNIFER M
Date: 12/12/09
comment: Hello everyone I just
wanted to update a little since its been a while! Eagle and Lexi are doing great Lexi is learning that Eagle needs to listen
to her and we are working on lexi being more cofident in telling him what to do.Eagle is listening to her very well sometimes
he looks at me like do I have to?! his personality is so funny. We are also working on "close" i dont have him on a leash
very often we just go outside and run and he is good about staying with us and not bothering people so when he is on a leash
he doesnt like it very much and just tries to run. We met with Brigette at northway mall and she showed me how to handle him.
WE practiced today around the house and Eagle did amazing!!! I am so proud of how him and Lexi are doing together it is amazing.
I will be updating more often!! Thank you to everyone for reading this and for all your support!! Love Jen and Lexi
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name: JENNIFER
Date: 11/3/09
comment: Hello to everyone!! Yesterday
we met with Hundesport Alaska, Inc. at Guidos pizza they were an amazing group of people they were so interested in knowing
the story of eagle and Lexi and so eager to help us. They didn't even know us that just goes to show how caring these people
were. I am very grateful to have gotten the chance to meet all of them and for all of the support they have given us! Eagle
did amazing he slept almost the whole time pretty amazing seeing as how there was yummy pizza every where!!! :) Thank you
to everyone for all of the support and I will continue to update you on how things are going with eagle and Lexi!!!
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name: JENNIFER
Date: 10/30/09
comment: Hello everyone!!! Just wanted
to tell you something that happened that was truly amazing on Wednesday night eagle started acting different, he was whining
(which by the way he NEVER does) and going in circles around Lexi and wouldn't leave her side she had what I believe a mild
seizure she has little mild seizures that are some times hard to notice but I truly believe he picked up on it. He is such
an amazing puppy and we love and enjoy him very much!!!!
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name: ANDREA
Date: 10/30/09
comment: I AM VERY GRATEFUL FOR THE LYTLES'S
BLESSING TO OUR FAMILY. IT WAS ABSOLUTELY AN ANSWER TO PRAYER. THANK YOU TO EVERYONE THAT HAS DONATED AND CONTINUED TO BLESS
OUR FAMILY!!
MAY GOD BLESS YOU!!!
WITH MUCH APPRECIATION AND THANKS!
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name: JENNIFER
date: 10/28/09
comment & update:
WE TOOK EAGLE INTO LEXIS CLASS YESTERDAY,HE WAS AMAZING HE WAS VERY GENTLE AND JUST LAID DOWN WHILE THE KIDS ATE AND DID THEIR
THING! HE IS AN AMAZING DOG AND HAS BROUGHT JOY TO OUR FAMILY. WE ALSO BROUGHT HIM TO WAL-MART AND HE DID AWESOME ITS LIKE
HE KNOWS THAT HE IS WORKING AND HE KNOWS WHAT TO DO WITH LITTLE DIRECTION HE LOVES "WORKING" I WILL KEEP EVERYONE UPDATED
ON HIS PROGRESS!!
THANK YOU FOR ALL OF THE SUPPORT!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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name: Duane Cody
date: 10/28/2009
comment: Lexi and Eagle just left my
home. He is truly an amazing dog. he is part of the family already. And so gentle with Lexi. I think they will have an amazing
relationship.I can't thank the Lytles' enough. They are amazimg people. I am Lexis' 78 year old great uncle and love her to
death. she is a big part of what keeps me going.
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