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
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.