Having a child with severe foods allergies, like a nut allergy, can be terrifying when your child could have a deathly reaction at any moment.
For Robyn Hurd, her constant fear was that her 6-year-old son Rory would somehow get in contact with a peanut and stop breathing. “It’s definitely life and death, every waking moment. I don’t know many parents who go in every single night to see if their child is breathing, but I do,” Robyn said.
To protect her son, Robyn decided to make the $17,000 investment to buy a service dog named Sport from Angel Service Dogs who could be with her son at all times that was trained to detect peanuts.
Rory was thrilled to have a new companion who could keep him safe, and couldn’t wait to meet his protector. “His heart was set on this. It was all he talked about for a very long time,” Robyn said.
However, when Sport first joined the family, Robyn wanted to make sure he was trained well enough and tested his abilities by walking him through the grocery store. Yet when she walked the dog past bins full of nuts, he did nothing.
“I was really shocked that he, even being five feet away, wasn’t showing any change in behavior at all,” said Kathlyn Ross, a dog trainer.
Watch the video below to see what happened when Robyn took Sport to the grocery store to test his training.
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