Tag: Service Dog

the-disreputable-service-dog:

ogmoaneymoan:

doggosource:

safety 

Only rational thing to do

So, before we stopped training for escalators, my trainer was trying to convince Kibeth to step on the escalator. Kibeth, being the plucky little shit that she is, was not having it. 

SO, in a crowded mall, on a weekend, my trainer (now my mentor) picked Kibeth up, and took her down the escalator. 

We no longer condone/advocate having a SD put their feet on an escalator if you can avoid it. 

At the Denver aquarium, I did NOT want to take the elevator up, and there was stairs or an escalator. I chose the escalator, but I held Kibeth that entire time. I did NOT want her toe to get caught.  

xiaq:

So my grandmother and I went into town today to hit up the Walmart for corn meal. She warned me that a lot of brands mix a little wheat flour in, so we’d have to check the ingredients. Since Deacon doesn’t have any experience with corn meal, I figured I’d give him a little test and have him check the bags before we looked at the ingredients. He alerted to every bag on the shelf.

My grandmother thought this was the Best. Thing. Ever. She was so delighted to have him alert and then she’d look at the bag and say “yes! he’s right! check the next one!” (video is him checking the second to last one on the shelf). Because of this we gathered quite a crowd of spectators, one of which was a store employee, who ran a few aisles over and brought back a bag of gluten-free cornbread muffin mix for him to check. He said it was safe, at which point everyone watching collectively lost their shit. You would have thought we’d just won the Stanley cup. Strangers were hugging. It was unreal.

So afterward I held an impromptu Q&A session since none of them had ever seen a service dog before, and then a police officer who was watching told me all about the Malinois their force had, and even got choked up talking about the dog’s passing last year.

Since getting home, my grandmother has proudly told this story to every single person that called the house this afternoon (she’s a very popular lady), whether it be family members, quilting friends, or the preacher, one of which responded, delighted, that her daughter had already heard the story from her husband who was doing the grocery shopping that morning.

Small town life, ya’ll.