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
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Ohhhh, you!
what is this i love it
This is a meme image satirizing a scenario in which a disabled person is especially vulnerable, implying the obvious response to someone in such a position is to take advantage of them, as opposed to helping them.
Beyond its value for humor’s sake alone, it being a particularly funny meme helps spread awareness that a service dog on its own is an emergency that requires attention.
I was hoping someone had posted this so I wouldn’t have to look for it myself
A woman once came to my place of work with a dog wearing an obviously fake service dog vest and patch. I know this for two reasons. One, the dog was completely out of control and yipping and scampering around all over the place and jumping on everybody, which is generally not service dog behavior. And two, she once learned the owner of our company had a dog she immediately launched into her sales pitch pushing him to buy her fake service dog patches, which she flat out admitted are for getting your dog into places it otherwise wouldn’t be allowed. I think this might have also had some kind of pyramid scheme aspect.
“Did you know??? Businesses are not allowed to discriminate against you or your dog if it says it’s a service animal! It’s Federal law!!!”
I threw her out. This made her very incensed.
I told her in no uncertain terms that the only thing she’s accomplishing is training people – not dogs – that they can ignore legitimate service animals because they might be dipshit Karens like herself are going around with fake service dogs causing problems everywhere they go. I am positive she lacked the empathy or self-awareness to understand the harm that this could cause to someone with a real service dog who was in need of actual help.
But she’s still banned. Too bad, not sad.
I hope the owner had your back 💯 for what you did. People always trying to side-step rules and/or boundaries because they think they’re stupid or don’t apply to them are exactly what’s wrong with the world today.
As Chief Executive Asshole around here, it is indeed one of my jobs to throw people out of the building when necessary. And also to tell self-important clients “no” when it’s appropriate.
I just like dogs. If one walked up to me and clearly wanted me to follow it I probably would.
I could have been abducted so easily as a kid if pedos in my area had known that one simple trick haha
“Come with me, tiny human.”
Oh, are we having an adventure?
“Uhm… Yes. Kind of.”
Cool!!!
Heck, I even followed the neighbours cat when he came and approached me clearly upset about something, on my way to the shop.
To be fair there was a slight drizzle, and he needed someone to ring their doorbell so he could go inside.
Someone might have caught on…
I follow any dog that approaches me without an obvious owner. They are usually escaped/lost.
I’ve collected 13 kidneys this way, it’s too easy.
You must pee pure water
I reply to any commenter that posts twice. They are usually escaped/lost.
I do this too, I usually end up lost.
There’s a comic about this. Lady No-kids or something
A good life!!
Its so easy to be a good person.
I just find their phone and use it to call for an ambulance for them. And I get a free phone. Easiest exchange ever.
Make sure you remove the ID finger before the ambulance arrives.
I won’t be making that mistake again.
Follow, don’t pet. Got it. Can I pet after?
If the owner is dead then you get to pet
If the owner is dead, you must scritch head.
I love rules that rhyme!
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
Just imagine a service dog with a lil sigh that says, “Help! I need an adult!”
Like, me too, bud. Me too.
Good psa. I didn’t know this as well
Had no idea this was a thing, and I knew what a service dog was. Glad I learned something new today, thank you for sharing!
They should mention this on TV/Cable/other like they used to do in the old days when they used to broadcast PSAs.
It’s a shame they don’t put as much effort into educating the public on important things like this.
Yeah … instead of important even life saving information, we’re fed a steady stream of absolute nonsense and even information that is the opposite of a PSA.
Don’t you know? Service dogs cause autism! I saw it on the news, they had a graph and everything!
I’ve known this fact in the past, but I’m not sure I’d remember it in the moment.
I would probably pet the dog for 10 minutes then go home and see this meme again and wonder what happened due to distracting the dog from finding someone actually useful 😅
In America we are just supposed to attach a note to the dog that says “thoughts and prayers”
I follow any dog that approaches me without an obvious owner. They are usually escaped/lost.
I reply to any commenter that posts twice. They are usually escaped/lost
Lol, not sure how that happened, my bad.
It’s probably a race condition in the Lemmy server code and not your fault.
But what if I don’t have a vest?
well my first instinct would be to pet the dog, hope the dog has more sense than me and can refuse the free pets
