Posted on 10/12/2015 7:54:23 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Good article and so very true. If not properly socialized some animals are a pure menace, given there are degrees of that menace but why should we tolerate event negligible threat. We should not...
While in the USAF in the early 70’s my friend put a small steering wheel on his VW Bug.
I had a Dodge Colt w an adjustable steering wheel, which I dropped to the lowest position.
Steering w my knees, I held the old VW wheel in my hand as I approached the entrance to work and my buddy in the passenger seat.
Having caught the attention of coworkers, I lifted the loose steering wheel with a look of panic and handed it to my buddy, he faked panic for a second and handed it back to me.
Our coworkers scattered from the intersection.
That has to be my best all time prank.
First world service dog problems.
Third world service dog problem: Are we going to serve the dog with rice or potatos?
A place I worked that served dinner. A nutty guy brought his “service” golden retriever into the dining room and it took a big dump on the middle of the dance floor. Half the customers got up and walked out. The porter had to clean it up. But the nut was friends with the owner. Later he offered a waitress $400 to date him.
There’s a whack job in my area who puts herself out as “training service dogs”. The breed she uses? Chows. One of the most independent, cantankerous breeds on the planet. She goes into restaurants and proceeds to feed these unwashed, ungroomed beasts with the silverware and off the dishes. It’s disgusting.
She specializes in finding clients who, for whatever reason, do not qualify for a dog from a legitimate service dog organization. These dogs are dragged around by their disabled people with the dog having absolutely zero attention to what is happening.
LOL, he kinda does, but then again...what a DOG!
I’ve got a friend, who is disabled. Visibly so, as she is a double amputee. She had a service dog which weighed all of 8 pounds. She could drop a dime on the ground and that dog would pick it up and hand it to her, at her command. The dog would climb into the clothes dryer to retrieve items for her and would pull on her jacket sleeve to help her get her coat off. The dog routinely rode on the platform of her scooter, curled up in a down-stay.
When she would be in a public place, the dog would curl up and never move, until she gave the ok.
There is no set size for a service dog. It is training and temperament. Pure and simple.
Well, my troupe may not be service dogs (lol Who’s servin who, here?), but they *are* our entourage. And we never leave home without them. #klownkar
Mia has a stroller- & she has been out to eat, but her pretty little feet only touch the ground to potty (She’s blind). She can’t walk now, anyway.
Years ago I saw a little article in a car magazine.
Someone with way too much time on his hands took the body off a car (might have been a ‘61 Chevy), rotated it 180, and bolted it back on the frame. He hooked everything up so it was actually street legal, and started to drive around in it.
It caused panic everywhere it went, and the cops finally told him to get it off the road.
Would love to see pics!
I’ve got Bob, Ozzy, Hannah, Mercy, Snek, Jake, Candy, Sid, Nancy, Ibn, Ruby, Lilith, Leah, Agnes, Vera, Uther, Igrayne and Pinky.
Hahahaha...that’s great!
Of course, it would be beneath the kittehs to engage in any kind of work like that...
My American bulldog is a chewing mouth dog.
More likely, you’d be arrested for assault and the person slapped would turn out to have been sexually abused as a child or a victim of rape.
There are legitimate reasons for having an animal for emotional support-—but a dog expressly trained for that purpose will be well behaved.
I hope you reported that to the manager.
Elkjounds are great service dogs. I still haven’t heard of dobermans cutting the grass.
As long as they don’t lick the Twizzlers, as one was doing in the drugstore. Of course community sympathy was all with the dog and not with me.
That’s really the part that bugs me. People who are ignoring or actually being rude to other humans fall all over themselves when a dog appears. That is sick.
And if you ever try to pet a seeing-eye dog, you are told, Not now, she’s working. If it’s not a real service dog, the owner adores all the attention.
NY state law does not deter these people from bringing their dogs into places that serve or sell food. If you point out the sign on the door, the next time you return the owner has taken the sign down.
Evidently some fool brought their pet husky that subsequently attacked one of the friendly barn cats, grabbing it by the neck and shaking it like a rag doll. The cat was able to escape and disappeared into one of the barns but I don't know if it survived the attack or not.
Elkhounds
I don’t think he really gets the irony of his post.
Some have been trained to assist the deaf, or specific types of mobility impaired folks. Still, the actual legit service dogs in those cases are every bit as well trained as any Seeing Eye dog, just trained for their owner’s specific disabilities instead of blindness.
As pointed out above...if it’s acting like a typical dog, chances are very good it’s not legit.
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