Several things wrong with this analysis, though I can’t fault the skepticism
I’m 20. Please. Why does everyone who gets upset at this post call me a teenager?
Yes, he was originally supposed to be a family dog. I had concerns because he was supposed to be a family dog, however that was well over a year ago. Professional obedience training happened a little after. He preformed exceptionally, and the trainer were working with now is helping with the more specific training. It probably wasn’t the best process to get a service dog, but I got lucky. I wouldn’t reccomend anyone else to obtain a SD this way, but like I said, it turned out well.
I’m… Not sure where you got the 2 blocks measurement? It was a quiet grocery store, and he went like, 3 aisles down.
We didn’t train him to stand by me and bark because of my sensory issues. Loud noises are painful for me, especially when I’m already in distress. It was decided that him going to get someone was a better idea than him sending me into sensory overload after I get out of my seizure.
I don’t go alone anywhere. Theres not really a chance for me to be far away from people where Raider would run free and wild and come back to find me gone. If I was in the habit of going out on strolls alone around the neighborhood, this would be a problem, but i don’t. I was only at the store because it’s 5 minutes away, and I really wanted coffee creamer, lmao
He doesn’t paw or jump or bark or anything else everyone has been imagining. He goes up, and noses the person. Then he walks off to my direction, checks if the person is following, and either repeats the nosing or leads them to me. The lady was swatting at him because he was interupting her shopping. She wasn’t scared for her life, she wasn’t canine-phobic, she was annoyed and swatting his nose away
Service dogs aren’t a set in stone thing. They can be trained for personal… Benefit? (not the right word, but close). My needs as an autistic and epileptic individual are different than yours as a wheelchair user. I can get the apprehension, but I don’t see how this post will affect people going up to your dog that’s with you. It’s already gonna happen, I know that much, but they’re not going to start going up to an SD next to a wheelchair user and be like “Show me the way!!!”
… Okay, they might, but that’s more because people are dumb af when they see fur. It’s not going to be because of this.
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