#sdsdprops

Here, we have Shaggy’s PTSD being triggered and Scooby comforting him.

Then, though Shaggy tried to reality-check is anxiety, his fears were unfortunately confirmed. This is part of why recovery is so difficult. And demonstrates how microaggressions cause trauma.

This follows, that shaggy and Scooby are a team. Service dog and handler pairs are referred to as a team.

Proof!

The gang is climbing up the side of a mountain. Shaggy quickly needs food. Fred planned ahead and packed sandwiches. Then, later on in the climb, shaggy fell asleep and counted on the gang to get him up the mountain.

Shaggy spends the whole episode thinking that he’s really Commander Cool. Velma’s uncle, a doctor, tells the gang that it’s best for them to just go along with it.

When Scooby goes with Wonder Woman in her invisible plane thing, shaggy misses Scooby. He tells Velma that he needs a snack but can’t do it alone. He says he thinks he has never snacked without Scooby. Velma takes pity and eats shaggys sandwich concoction - candy and bologna.

This is another example of being shaggys true best friend. But more importantly, it demonstrates what it’s like for a handler to go throughout their care routine separated from their service dog.

Scooby Doo, Where Are You?

Episode: Mine Your Own Business

Shaggy has Scooby open doors for him. Many service dogs can open/close doors. Scooby Doo is a service dog. Shaggy couldn’t do it all on his own. He needed his helper.

I like this YouTuber and vid about training dogs to close the door:

But that’s not the purpose of this post.

In the movie, Velma recounts a typical evening that ended up making Shaggy’s extreme fear response cause him to scream for three hours straight without taking a breath. The recap of the mystery that caused Shaggy’s breakdown ended with Shaggy locking himself in a wardrobe, screaming. Throughout the rest of the movie, when Shaggy started to get scared, he’d freeze with a strange expression on his face, quiver, whimper, and hide.