A 7-year-old diabetic boy who goes by the name, Luke, was saved by is dog recently. The dog, Jedi, is a trained diabetes sniffing canine, and if it weren't for him, Luke's parents might have found themselves in a difficult position.

The incident took place last week when Luke and his parents were fast asleep. You see, the boy needs regular monitoring to keep an eye on his blood sugar levels, and this the parents managed to do every night before bed.

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Still, despite doing this and finding everything to be just fine, Luke was not exactly OK. The monitoring device did not pick up an issue with the child, but Jedi did, and he made every move to make sure young Luke would not slip down a dangerous path.

Luke's blood sugar had dropped dangerously low, and Jedi knew this. Every time he made an attempt to alert the parents, they would ignore him because they believed it was just a false alarm. However, the dog was steadfast and would not allow for Luke's parents to sleep until the issue was resolved.

"Jedi jumped off the bed, then back on again, though I felt him do this I didn't wake up," Luke's mom Dorrie wrote in a Facebook post that has since gone viral. "Then Jedi laid on me ... I suddenly was fully awake and I knew there was an issue."

It didn't take long for Dorrie to get up and fetch the glucose Luke needed before things took a turn for the worse. Thanks to his best friend, Jedi, Luke was able to sleep thoroughly throughout the night without any interference.

For those who are wondering, Jedi is one of many dogs across the United States that were trained to detect diabetes in humans. Dogs 4 Diabetics is a non-profit organization based in California that has been training dogs since 2004. We understand it has matched over 150 dogs over that period.

Getting dogs to detect diabetes has become a rather successful project, so now researchers are working on ways to train dogs to detect cancer. We suspect training dogs to detect cancer might be a more difficult task, but we hope researchers managed to pull it off.