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
Follow, don’t pet. Got it. Can I pet after?
If the owner is dead then you get to pet
What if I'm also there. And a court concludes I maaay have had some small part in the owner's death? Am I still allowed to pet it then (after it gets x-rayed coming into the prison)?
Is still a good dog, so yes. Pet
I mean, this is gonna happen long after the petting is over. Go nuts.
Be wary of killing the service dog's owner as this may upset the dog.
Eh, they're just a client. Service Pupper is all business.
If the owner is dead, you must scritch head.
I love rules that rhyme!