SERVICE DOG PSA
So today I tripped. Fell flat on my face, it was awful but ultimately harmless. My service dog, however, is trained to go get an adult if I have a seizure, and he assumed this was a seizure (were training him to do more to care for me, but we didn’t learn I had epilepsy until a year after we got him)
I went after him after I had dusten off my jeans and my ego, and I found him trying to get the attention of a very annoyed woman. She was swatting him away and telling him to go away. So I feel like I need to make this heads up
If a service dog without a person approaches you, it means the person is down and in need of help
Don’t get scared, don’t get annoyed, follow the dog! If it had been an emergency situation, I could have vomited and choked, I could have hit my head, I could have had so many things happen to me. We’re going to update his training so if the first person doesn’t cooperate, he moves on, but seriously guys. If what’s-his-face could understand that lassie wanted him to go to the well, you can figure out that a dog in a vest proclaiming it a service dog wants you to follow him
What a cunt. I thought everyone knew this (to follow service dogs if they try to get your attention alone). Plus, why would you swat away any dog if it just wants your attention?
Not everyone likes dogs.
Impossible! I wouldn't trust people who don't like dogs, just like I wouldn't trust a person a dog doesn't like.
I don't like dogs, I'm more of a cat person.
Dog barks are terrifying, cat meows are much more calming.
No offense to dog people, I just...
It keep reminding me of those angry dogs barking from people's yards when I was walking to school as a kid.
(Serious wtf, why do people keep their dogs in the yard... instead of... inside the house? 🤔)
I don't really mind the dogs, but I'm definitely not as smitten with them as the population in general seem to be.
I do not understand why dogs have to bark at everyone who ever walks past the house. They've lived there for years, they've seen probably thousands of people walk past the house, and they always just walk past, not once as anybody ever come into the house and started attacking everyone with a chainsaw, so why do dogs act like that's a possibility?
It's the fence.
Dogs love me, but you still shouldn't trust me
I don't understand why everyone seems to claim that dogs are psychic. Dogs like people that give them food, they're not capable of making a determination about someone's hidden secret.
My dog generally likes most people, but the ones she doesn't like are usually tweakers. My partners dog likes EVERYONE, and if he doesn't like somebody, then I am usually very cautious around that person.
Some people have bad experiences with dogs as tiny kids and it carries with them to adulthood. It can also be that people's one-or-both parents don't like dogs (probably for that reason) and teach that to them.
Sad to go through life and miss out on that.
Yeah. That's a good point. But I really thought that most people knew about the service dog thing though. I guess that's on me for assuming (you know what they say about that).
Dogs are vicious, that's why. Not even talking about the fighting dogs, which rip apart babies. I'm talking about small "cute" dogs, that bite girls and rip apart their toys for fun... Yeah, had that all happen to young women I got to know in my life and they are all traumatised.
*Some dogs. I agree it happens, but to say all dogs are is incorrect.
Yeah, they rip apart toys for fun.... because it's fun (and inherited behavior) but the vast majority of dogs would never attack someone like that. Unless their person is in extreme danger or something.
I wonder, if dog lovers here would be just as chill, if someone would respond something like "Yeah, we rip apart doggies for fun... because it's fun". :D
But they're toys. Not other animals, or people. It's an inherent trait. Any responsible dog owner knows this. My dog loves ripping apart some toys, but would never attack another human.
Have you ever owned a dog?