Everything SHINY

Life and adventures with the best dog in the 'verse.

[the-multiverse-and-me]

Looking for dog blogs!

I really would like to follow more dog blogs, so if you don’t mind liking/rebloging this post if your blog is 80% or more of any of the following:

-Service dogs

-Dog training

-Livestock guardian dogs

-Working dogs

-Dog health

-Dogs in general 

If you like or reblog, I will definitely check out your blog and probably follow you! Thank you!

[slyherin]

my last words before i die will probably be “harry potter” tbh

[yaelstiel]

I’d like to report a dead body, 309 Mayfair Circle.

[everythingshinysdit-blog]

Oh I’ve been busy

So let’s see. I got a job... at the end of august and it’s full time, 40 hours a week. Very difficult so I don’t tumblr a lot.

We ended up adopting Phoenix, she’s a gSD mix and wonderful, she is home most days with my husband and never alone.

Next weekend I’m going to long beach comic con with the travelling tardis so that should be fun.  I am fundraising for the rescue that donated Rhodey and Shiny, and that we adopted Phoenix from. 3 dogs from the same rescue, an amazing group. https://roadrunnersports.fundly.com/3rd-annual-howl-o-ween-5k-mutt-run-walk-rhode-warriors Here is my team. I’ll be having regular updates and will be even selling some of my crocheted stuff to help fundrais.

[worldofthecutestcuties]

Where’s that cat I know he came this way.

[micaelaandizzie-deactivated2016]

Service Dog Blogger Challenge

We all here the sensationalization of Service Dogs. How everyone thinks we are LUCK to be able to bring our “fur babies” around with us.

So here is the challenge, list all of the things that we must do every day with our Service Dogs that are made Inconvenient, are More Difficult or that people Just Dont Think About how the addition of a dog may affect that activity.

[kasammacademy-deactivated201908]

- The questions. Wanna go for a quick run at a grocery store? Wouldn’t it be nice to just get your cereals and just be done with it? No. 9 out of 10 times you will get stupid questions about if you’re blind, if you’re training it or other annoying stuff. - TBH bathroom stall are hell with service dog. Wanna go for a pee? Not before you’re able to fit a 70 pounds dog with you. I know not everyone has big dog for service dogs, but lets face it, the majority does. - Public access. You will have trouble at least one time in your life with public access. You want to do a quick run to the grocery store but no, employers decides that dogs are not allowed and refuse to hear the law, cause hey, ‘only guide dogs are service dogs’. - There is so many activities that are complicated with service dogs or impossible. The zoo for example, the dog isn’t allowed everywhere and you can’t just be ’ Oh I’ll go without him cause you know I really want to go into that petting zoo area! ’ Nope, too bad. Wanna go to the pool? Too bad, service dogs are allowed there.. but not in the water. In my case, no pool for me, since the dog can’t be near me. Wanna go to the beach? Not before you have a dog that puts a lot of responsibility with you, playing in the water with a dog tied to yourself is NOT fun. He doesn’t want to stay in the water all the time, he doesn’t want to swim for an hour either. - Wanna go to Starbucks? Just drink your tea? Nope too bad, everyone will look at you. - Everybody is now aware that you’re disabled. Literally everybody. Wanna go on a date? Not without your disabled furry etiquette. Wanna go with friends? Not without him either! You don’t get to chose if it’s convenient to bring him, you HAVE to. - Would you go outside with all of your disabilities and mental illnesses written on you? For everyone to see? That’s pretty much what a service dog does. Except it’s worse, people will assume that you got more, people will guess at the disabilities. - You’re considered different. Either annoying people will come to you and ask stupid questions, or be like ’ omg I wish I could bring my dog with me ’ or ’ What do I have to do to bring my dog with me ’ or just be plain looked, stared, but ignored. Nobody treats you normal. - And the worse? You’re disabled. Do you really need any other reason? People don’t get what ALL the time means. Service dog with you all time is literally all the time. Bathroom, car, stores, activities, public transportation, hobbies, cinema, school, job, job interview ( you’re 99% sure not to get the job if you have a SD ). It’s not fun.

Your life changes with a service dog. There is so many times that I wish I could’ve went somewhere without Whisper but that’s impossible. Not everything is fun with a SD, you don’t want a dog following you all the time when it’s LITERALLY all the time. I love Whisper, he changed my life for the best, made me able to go outside, do stuff on my own. But if some pills could’ve done the same I would’ve went with that. As harsh as it sounds , sometimes, a dog is a burden and the said activity could be done much more easier without him.

[servicedoodle]

-Like kids? If not, too bad. Many times a day kids will run up to you screeching (not being watched by parents of course) and just about knock you over to get at your dog.That’s the hardest for me, especially when I worked in a theme park -You are constantly bothered and asked HOW DO I GET ONE? -A lot of people ask what your disability is, then get offended when you say its not their business. Usually because their cousin/kid/some obscure relative has a disability. Or my favorite “Well I’m curious because I work in healthcare”. Don’t care. Go away. -Dog doesn’t fit a regular bathroom stall, and 90% of the time you stand around and wait for the able bodied person to get out of the only disabled bathroom. -Everyone points at you. When you’re out to eat sometimes people will come up by your table and just STARE. Manners go out the window when there’s a dog it seems. Have you ever wanted to hear about every other dog on the planet? (some days I do) Because seems everyone you pass will tell you they have a dog like like. Only bigger, with more fur, and a different face… so not like that. -HEY WILL YOU TRAIN MY DOG??? I hear that way too often. And then if I say yeah, here’s how much it costs they’re shocked at the idea of paying a trainer. Service dogs are great, but yeah… they can be a huge pain too. They make everything different.

[bringbackgoth]

- Random shrieks of horror when you’re just trying to get some groceries. 

- Random shrieks of glee when you’re just trying to get some groceries.

- tensing up every time you walk into a store with a gatekeeper, tensing up everytime you see an employee get ‘that look’ on their face, wondering if you’ll be able to complete your errands today or if there’s going to be a dramatic showdown

- having to call the police only for them to ALSO ignore the laws and tell you that you need to leave.

- Want a job? Too bad. You probably won’t get it if you bring your other half to the interview. If you are lucky enough that you can go to a brief interview and leave the dog in the car for that period of time then you’ll have to break the awkward news once you get a job offer (it’s only safe to tell them AFTER they offer you the job). Then you get to deal with 4 months of back and forth between you, the department that handles job accommodations, and your therapist before they finally allow your service dog to accompany you to work. And even then you have a sneaking suspicion he was only approved because you threatened a lawsuit and investigation by the EEOC.

- Constant kissy noises, choruses of ‘awwwwwwwww’ and even people barking at you in public.

- if you have a service dog that is little and cute expect to be questioned always, expect for other service dog handlers to call you a fake.

- Be prepared for everyone to tell you about their cousins best friend who has a service dog.

- If the store is busy and you pick up your small service dog so they don’t get kicked in the face expect people and other service dog handlers to scream fake. Expect them to yell at you about how you’re not following proper etiquette.

- if you cave and adhere to ‘4 on the floor’ even if it’s a busy and crowded place, understand that someone might kick your dog in the face and break his jaw. (and then you wonder why you listened to those assholes, you knew it was safer to hold him)

- If you take public transportation and you’re waiting for the bus, be prepared to see the driver fly by your stop with an apologetic shrug because he doesn’t want to stop and see if your dog is a service dog or not.

- Don’t get mad if the bus driver idles the bus at your stop for 15 minutes before letting you on because they have to call their supervisor and see if there is any way they can refuse you access on the bus.

- You’ll have to deal with exasperated airport workers and flight attendants who have already seen 50 ‘service dogs’ go through the airport today and 90% of them were a nuisance and just faking it so that the owner didn’t have to pay the airlines pet fee.

- ‘Wow I’ve never seen a service dog so well behaved’ is a comment you’ll get at some point and you worry about the other ‘service dogs’ that you might run into someday.

[doberbutts]

I also work at a pet store so:

>literally everyone shoving their dogs’ face in your SD’s face

>and then getting offended when you tell them that your dog is working and please do not let their dogs distract yours

>”It must be nice to work at a store where you can bring your dog with you”

>”Oh, what is he a service dog for/who are you training him for?”

>”But you’re so young! You don’t look disabled to me!” or “Well I can’t see a single thing wrong with you”

>”I’m only so curious because my nephew’s uncle’s best friend’s brother’s doctor recommended one for him”

>From friends/family “You’ll be with us, can’t you leave him home this time?”

>Being rushed by children. That aren’t attended. That occasionally literally bodyslam your dog to the ground if you don’t step between them fast enough. That don’t listen when you tell them to leave your dog alone.

>”I don’t mean to pry, but I mean, what exactly does he do for you?”

>Walking by countless comments varying from disgust to excitement and knowing that you are the center of literally everyone’s attention

>Access-roulette. Schrodinger’s gatekeeper. Is that employee approaching you to kick you out, pay you a compliment, or just watch you “subtley” for an excuse to start a confrontation…

>There’s always that ONE co-worker. Even if HR and your GM are totally down with the service dog thing, you’re going to hear it from someone you work with.

>Stop. Fucking. Distracting. My. Dog. Kissy noises, barking, whistling, meowing, asking for his name, or calling him, STOP IT.

>If you pick a BSL breed be prepared to have people absolutely abusive towards your dog (so says my one customer, Creed apparently “looks like a killer” when he is laying next to me with his head on my lap at register). Also be prepared for IT’S ALL HOW YOU RAISE THEM!!! And “I’ve never seen that breed as a service dog”.

>”I’m so glad to see a real one, we get so many fake SDs in here that are so horribly behaved” please God let me never have to deal with one of those

[ofdreamsandomens]

Oh don’t forget the people that go out of their way to purposefully hurt your dog. Accidents happen, yeah but then there’s the people who go out of their way to try to hurt your dog.

Standing in the checkout line? Watch out for someone throwing something at your dog.  Having your dog hit in the head with a super sized container of protein mix? CHECK!

Want to walk through the store? There’s the asshole who swerves from the other side of the aisle and rams their cart into your dog. I’ve lost count of how many times this has happened to Voodoo, to the point where he’s uneasy if a cart starts coming up behind him.

Oh you want to stand somewhere and look at something? Great! Teach your dog to tuck his tail and better yet, sit in front of you and keep one eye out for people who apparently have no manners and don’t know how to behave in public much less how to act around a dog. Otherwise you get stupid shits like the lady yesterday who decided it’d be a lovely idea to stand on my dog’s tail. We’re not talking a second or two. We’re talking several seconds of standing there with her weight on his tail while he’s trying (and failing) to get away from her and we’re yelling at her to get off of him. Her reaction was to apologize and only then get off of his tail once she’d finished speaking.

I hate people. I seriously hate people. If someone wants to look at my dog as we go past, fine. Other than that, just leave us the hell alone.

[crippledhockwalker]

Men’s rooms that only have urinals. Awkward as hell.

[myatheserviceboxer-deactivated2]

Or how about when you tell a kid to leave the dog alone and they run off only to have the mother charge you minutes later on how you can’t ‘yell at her kid’ and 'they only wanted to pet the dog’.

[everythingshinysdit-blog]

Shiny is really happy that his sister phoenix is here to stay.

[everythingshinysdit-blog]

They were awesome at the disability expo and we met other great handlers who had good dogs. It was a lot of fun. 

[everythingshinysdit-blog]

On Thursday we tested a potential second service dog. This rescue named “Darcia” is a 73lb. German Shepherd mix who has been in rescue for at least six months. She is 2 years old and walks well on leash. She knows some basic obedience and has and good recall. We took her to a rescue event Thursday night and she was amazing there were people and dogs everywhere. We started on the fringe judging her reactions and comfort and ended up right in the fray! Tonight she had a vest on for the first time and got used to “forward” and “backup” commands. She didn’t understand the puzzle games. But is willing to learn. She is here on a week trial and will receive training while she is with us regardless of our choice. But yes Shiny has already decided.

[captioningresource]

Deafinitely getting robbed w/ Alx James, The Gabbie Show, Meghan McCarthy, DAVID DOBRIK, Alex Ernst

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[Thief 1: Get on the ground!  Everyone else: (screaming)  Thief 2: (In asl) Sorry, get on the ground now p1: Okay okay! ] 

[whatshouldwecallchronicillness]

When my emotionally inhibited friend tries to offer me comfort...

[hudders-and-hiddles]

I don’t know. There’ve been so many… Actually, there’ve been hardly any episodes.

Martin Freeman, trying to name his favorite Sherlock episode (via hudders-and-hiddles)

[ruingaraf]

[themarchrabbit]

Seriously, it kills me when I see people hold scientists up as pinnacles of logic and reason.

Because one time the professor I was interning for got punched in the face by another professor, because mine got the funding, and told the other professor his theory was stupid.

This same professor told me to throw rocks to scare the “stupid fucking crabs” into moving so we could count them properly.

SCIENCE

[ruingaraf]

thank you

this is one of the best comments this post has recieved

[tyrror]

I have witnessed:

Two professors hiding around a corner and snickering, “Shhh, here she comes!” While a female professor approached and, when she finally found them, she proceeded to scream while pointing from one to the other, “You! I called your office but you weren’t there! So I tried to call YOUR office to figure out where HE was but YOU weren’t there!”

Two grad students standing outside a closed and locked door yelling, “Come out of the damn office. You haven’t left for days. If you didn’t have a couch in there I’d be concerned as to where you were sleeping!”

A religious studies professor apologizing for being late to class because, “security stopped me because I’m dressed like a hobbit”

Watched a professor snort the results of my experiment to determine if I had the right final compound.

Two archeology professors toss priceless fossilized teeth back and forth in an attempt to figure out who is smarter by “guessing the type of tooth and species of animal before it lands”

Multiple fully degreed individuals throw dry ice at one another in an attempt to be first to use the lab/get that piece of equipment/or change the iPod song.

A genetics professor build furniture out of stacks of paper and planks of wood because she is that far behind in grading papers/responding. One of the impromptu furniture pieces housed a fish tank.

I could go on but I think that covers the larger portion of the insanity…

[gessorly]

Every time it comes around on my dash, it gets better.

[thepioden]

- I have had a professor buy a huge fuckoff bottle of rum during fieldwork in Costa Rica and let the undergrads get wasted because “you’re not underage in Costa Rica and we’ll be up all night with the bats anyway!”

- Same professor hung a bat from her headlamp and wore it as a decoration for an entire night. 

- A whole swarm of older women - and these are women with PhDs and world-renown bat experts, the bigwigs - all, to a woman, go to the formal charity dinner at an international research symposium in Toronto in late October dressed in skimpy Batgirl costumes. Because Halloween was that weekend, you see.

- At a different conference, a professor get blackout drunk and pass out on the side of the road. 

- “Yeah, we have to say we did it properly for the grant but to be really honest, Miracle-gro works better.”

- Teaching lab: we had liquid nitrogen for a demo, and after class the professor, the other TA, and I spent a good two hours freezing and breaking things in it. 

[onsheka]

a chemistry class begins with 30 students nine months later just six of us left sitting on tables dipping paper into contaminated chemicals to see what happens when we burn it teacher making idle suggestions while he marks our work

“go to the fume hood thing, yeah now put some potassium in chlorine” can i burn the results sir? “fuck it sure whatever its tainted anyway”

[kattahj]

Some examples just from the professor in the immediate family, he:

- Likes to tell increasingly outrageous lies and see how far he can take them before people catch on.

- Has been known to use his coffee spoon to catapult sugar lumps.

- Hung up a candle-snuffer on a “fire extinguisher” sign.

- Found a cow’s skull in the ground while staying at a resort, and put it up on a newel post to show the direction to the dining hall.

[lipstick-lexicon]

Mom-professor enjoys putting “Hi class!” on Wikipedia articles and showing them to her freshmen to illustrate why we use accredited sources and has been known to go out for possibly-drunk karaoke with her professor-friends at conferences.

[buzzfeed]

[hellojoeyyy]

Rosetta Stone

[nashaawest]

My heart broke into tiny pieces when I read the Rosetta Stone tweet.

[cutemutant-deactivated20151226]

All of these are me

[cilly-murphy]

[eternallyjjun]

cedric diggory did not die for all the good harry potter merch to be gryffindor and slytherin

[last-level-in-druid]

tryingtoohard-again:

cedric diggory did not die for all the good harry potter merch to be gryffindor and slytherin

OKAY SO I WAS IN HOT TOPIC TODAY AND THE WORKER THERE SAID PEOPLE ARE SO THIRSTY FOR HUFFLEPUFF AND RAVENCLAW STUFF THAT THEY CANT KEEP IT ON THE SHELVES!!!!

[cindy-clawford]

[phoebes]

#calm down steve rogers