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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In America we are just supposed to attach a note to the dog that says “thoughts and prayers”
Plus a bill for medical services provided by acknowledging the dog
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.
Idk man, the face is kinda hard to carry…
I’m sure I can find a hacker somewhere
The only trouble with that is if it’s last year’s model then I’m just going to have to let them die.
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.
He is talking about the “oh, you” format
Oh okay. Then in that case I’ll explain here so as not to double-inbox them and split the thread:
Thats a popular meme in which a dog is accidentally making a very human-like expression from a humorous posture, which in combination looks like a shameful but frolicking admission of guilt. Someone placed a person making a reciprocal gesture in the sightline of that dog, appearing to gaze back while making a similarly lighthearted expression of judgement. Underlining the point is the caption, “Oh, you!” an idiom often uttered in similar scenarios between people in sitcoms.
No service animal, but I was in the “down town” area of a college town, and donated plasma cause I was broke broke.
I’m epileptic, I don’t think the plasma donation contributed, but as I was walking back to my car, and waiting to cross a street… well, seizure.
No one helped me, but someone took my phone, wallet, and some meds I needed to keep on me at the time, probably other stuff I don’t recall.
The meds had no recreational value. They were seizure meds, and no, nothing like ativan that has any sort of redeeming quality outside of treating epilepsy.
Some people just suck.
True. I think it’s very much a Trolley Problem where this might lead to the pickpocketing (or worse) of a disabled person and simultaneously lead to saved lives.
I was hoping someone had posted this so I wouldn’t have to look for it myself
LOL, this was literally the first thing I thought of when I saw this post.
Good psa. I didn’t know this as well
Just imagine a service dog with a lil sigh that says, “Help! I need an adult!”
Like, me too, bud. Me too.
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, once she 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.
Now that’s a job title I would actively strive for. 🤣
But what if I don’t have a vest?
Well you better start wearing one now.
I mean the dogs aren’t actually that dumb, even when the people are.
Like they know how to attract attention by barking and trying to draw you towards the person by not letting you get to them if you try to pet them and going further towards the person.
But yeah, it’s a good “psa”.
We had a Portuguese sheepdog, and it was very well trained, and I always kept him off the leash while outside. If there was a group of two or more, he would “herd”, going from far in the front to far in the back and just constantly keeping watch and if there was a larger group and someone was left behind, he’d stand in between the person (who was probably staying a bit behind while the others walked because they were taking a piss because beer) and the group and as the distance grew, he’d grow clearly more anxious. He wasn’t one to bark (because of the mistreatment from the former owner), but if he had, he’d have barked at that point.
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
Someone might have caught on…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.
“Come with me, tiny human.”
Oh, are we having an adventure?
“Uhm… Yes. Kind of.”
Cool!!!
Yeah pretty much
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I reply to any commenter that posts twice. They are usually escaped/lost.
I do this too, I usually end up lost.
I’ve collected 13 kidneys this way, it’s too easy.
That must have been a very bad day for the person with only one kidney.
You must pee pure water
There’s a comic about this. Lady No-kids or something
A good life!!
well my first instinct would be to pet the dog, hope the dog has more sense than me and can refuse the free pets
🫡
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)?
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.
Is still a good dog, so yes. Pet
And a court concludes I maaay have had some small part in the owner’s death?
I mean, this is gonna happen long after the petting is over. Go nuts.
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.
Least you didn’t get traumatized by the ghost kid PSA we got about road safety.
They literally had this whole story about a kid who’d been run over crossing the road and he’s now basically a ghost wandering around being sad about it. I think there was a train one as well.
Don’t you know? Service dogs cause autism! I saw it on the news, they had a graph and everything!
That would require people to care.
