The Life-Saving Power Of A Dog's Nose: Fostering Canine Companionship For Diabetic Health
Finding Genius Podcast
Richard Jacobs
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 10 September 2024
⏱️ 48 minutes
🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
In today's episode, we sit down with KC Owens to discuss her work as a dog breeder for the T1 diabetes community. As the founder of Tattle Tail Scent Dogs, KC is on a mission to produce highly trainable, healthy puppies that can excel as service/therapy dogs, working dogs, and companions. Driven by their motto, "Where a dog's nose saves a life and embraces a heart," Tattle Tail Scent Dogs have helped countless individuals and families with Diabetic Alert Dogs – and KC joins us to share her personal journey and the impact of her work.…
KC has faced autoimmune issues for much of her life and was officially diagnosed with diabetes in 2000. Despite her best efforts—changing her diet, increasing exercise, and taking medications—nothing seemed to work. However, she noticed a significant improvement when her dog began to recognize her high and low blood glucose levels. This discovery led her to become a niche dog trainer, helping others manage the challenges of diabetes through the unique abilities of their dogs.
Click play to find out:
- KC's unique experience as a diabetic.
- Whether or not dogs can smell low blood sugar.Â
- How to understand a dog's method of communication to monitor glucose levels.
Want to learn more about KC and her work training Diabetic Alert Dogs? Visit the Tattle Tail Scent Dogs website now!
Episode also available on Apple Podcasts:Â http://apple.co/30PvU9
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Forget frequently asked questions common sense common knowledge or Google how about advice from a real genius |
| 0:06.6 | 95% of people in any profession are good enough to be qualified and licensed 5% go above beyond. They become very good at what they do, |
| 0:14.8 | but only 0.1 percent. A real Jesus. |
| 0:18.2 | Richard Jacobs has made it his life's mission to find them for you. He hunts down and interviews geniuses in every field, |
| 0:25.0 | sleep science, cancer, stem cells, ketogenic diets, and more. Here come the geniuses. |
| 0:30.0 | This is the Finding Genius Podcast. |
| 0:33.0 | That is Richard Jacobs. |
| 0:35.0 | Hello, this is Richard Jacobs with the Finding Genius Podcast. |
| 0:41.0 | I have a very exciting guest today, Casey Owens. She's the |
| 0:45.1 | founder of Taddletale scent dogs. You know, and my family and my daughter has a |
| 0:49.7 | service dog that is trained on diabetic alert. |
| 0:52.8 | So I think this is going to be a really great call and I'm very excited to speak to her. |
| 0:56.2 | So how you doing, Casey? |
| 0:57.8 | I'm doing well, and you? |
| 0:59.5 | Good. I'm very glad to speak to you. |
| 1:01.1 | Well, tell me a bit about your background and then we'll talk about |
| 1:04.2 | Saddle Tales and what it does. Okay. Well, I was a social worker for 30 years working with homeless and low income folks here in Salt Lake, but my love and passion has always been animals and especially dogs. I grew up on a farm in Missouri and we had dogs for just about every use you can imagine from hog to cow to sheep. |
| 1:35.0 | We had coyote hounds, coonounds, |
| 1:38.6 | we had pointers for upland dogs, |
| 1:42.3 | and we had an occasional path. |
| 1:45.0 | So I literally grew up with dogs. |
| 1:47.4 | I like dogs. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Richard Jacobs, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Richard Jacobs and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.