An attack analysis at age 9 afflicted Parker Rogers' activity drastically. The Fresno boy was accepting seizures about daily. He no best could appear accessible school, and his time with accompany was limited.
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Then Parker met "Toby the Great."
The chicken Labrador didn't attending able at first. Labrador Retriever Accomplishment of Fresno had biconcave him up afresh from a bounded shelter. Parker's mother, Mandy Rogers, recalls a thin, hyper, bedraggled dog with a artificial cone about his close because he had aloof been neutered.
She was assertive that this was not activity to be their dog. But as fate would accept it, of all the dogs accessible for examination that day, Parker capital Toby. And so the Lab abutting the Rogers ancestors and afflicted all of their lives for the better.
Shortly afterwards demography him home in 2014 and aural a year of Parker's diagnosis, Toby had accomplished himself how to ascertain his boy's seizures afore they happened.
It abashed Mandy Rogers the aboriginal time Toby approved to help. He was jumping on Parker, bitter at his mother's hands, and aggravating to assemblage the ancestors into one room. Mandy alleged a dog trainer for advice, afraid about this strange, aberrant behavior -- again Parker had a seizure.
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It angry out that Toby was aggravating to get Parker to sit bottomward because he could faculty a access coming, and was aggravating to active Mandy of what was about to happen.
Since then, Toby has abstruse how to back emergency access medication for Parker; he'll additionally run to get Parker's mom back a access is advancing on. If Parker is sitting bottomward back a access is about to happen, Toby sits on the boy and doesn't let him angle up.
Parker says Toby helps him feel safe and secure. Along with actuality a friend, the dog has accustomed him the aplomb to be added independent.
A few months ago, Parker wrote about Toby and submitted it to the Petco Foundation for its anniversary Holiday Wishes campaign, which invites bodies to allotment belief about how an adopted pet afflicted their activity for a adventitious to acquire a donation for an beastly rescue.
"I could assuredly beddy-bye in my allowance alone, aloof me and Toby," Parker wrote in his adventure to Petco. "I can go out and ride my bike, aloof me and Toby. Toby's activity changed, too. He went from a actuality a devious dog, to a rescue, to the best important allotment of my medical team."
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Thanks to Parker's story, the Petco Foundation donated $5,000 to Labrador Retriever Accomplishment of Fresno -- on Parker's 14th altogether -- at the Petco abundance in Clovis, Calif.
Parker additionally accustomed a allowance agenda from Petco.
The Lab accomplishment accumulation has a adventitious of acceptable addition $5,000 to $25,000 if it is amid the top bristles groups during voting for a People's Choice Awards, accessible through Dec. 20. Voting can be done online at petcofoundation.org/holidaywishes.
The Fresno Lab accomplishment accumulation is one of about 50 beastly groups civic to accept a accumulated $765,000 from Petco this season.
None of the finalists for the People's Choice Award is from Colorado.
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Parker hopes his adventure about Toby reminds bodies that accomplishment dogs are wonderful, and to accord them a chance.
"All that they charge is a adventitious -- adopt, don't shop," Labrador Retriever Accomplishment of Fresno Director Petra House says.
The accomplishment accumulation gets their dogs from bounded beastly shelters. The dogs alive with advance advance parents until abiding homes can be found.
Parker describes Toby as "always happy, never sad, playful."
"Our ancestors rescued Toby," Parker says, "but he absolutely rescued me."
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