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
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?