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Mood @_@

gebo4482

Bumblebee by Shane Baxley / Luis Guggenberger

gebo4482

Bumblebee by Luis Guggenberger

youkaiyume

The great thing about this meme is that you can interchange Bumblebee and Charlie and it would still be true lmao.

lems-art-blog

This is how serious I am about the traditional Friday TFN pool party. I made a ‚wreckini‘. You are welcome.

stormthetruck

Mighty need-I want one

downonthepharm-red-dwarf

Story of my life.

gemstonesisters

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This HAS HAPPENED to us in Joan’s, Michael’s, Walmart, Hobby Lobby, and two different dollar stores and a yard sale likely

~Omie

stormthetruck

Guys don't let her fool you, this brats got enough yarn to fill a mattress cover and make a bed.

Ahhh

TFCon, so awesome but expensive for autographs...I understand why but ows.

But super awesome to see everyone even if nothing else. ROBOTS FTW

AHH HI

Theres new faces here .O. (Okay I at least already knew one of you -squints at-)

#still hello #I suck at posting #Fail #Will try to be better #We know this will be probably a lesson in futility #Stormtruck is readily distracted

buzzfeed

By Lara Parker with art by Charlotte Gomez.

imma-bite-chu-deactivated201307

Reblog if you're female, yet RP male character/s.

omicrontheicequeen

allll the time, <3

[and love your mechs]

stormthetruck

pretty much all the chars I play are male. Except a small handful. Majority of my OC’s are male too. Hmmmm :P

kyl0-rens-eight-pack-deactivate

Reblog if Gargoyles

thesylverlining

#c'mon#where’s the rest of the fandom at?#i know there’s more of you out there

There are many. :3 Hello there.

omicrontheicequeen

hiiii

stormthetruck

-waves- :D

rambo-psych-service-dog

How can you tell the fakes from the real working dogs?

1. If the dog is confined or has restricted body movement due to being in a carrier, stroller or shopping cart, it is unable to physically preform tasks in order to aid their disabled handler.

2. If the dog exhibits poor behavior and the handler isn’t trying to correct it or isn’t removing the dog.

3. If the dog is entirely focused on interacting with its environment, it cannot be focused on aiding it’s handler.

Certification, ID tags and vests don’t make a service dog. A dog is considered a service dog when it is trained to physically do something (performs a task or work) in relation to the handlers disability. The dog must be doing something for you, that you cannot do for yourself.

(The law does NOT recognize ‘emotional support’ or ‘comforting’ to be trained tasks)

Credit: Assistance Dogs of the Carolinas

noodle-dragon

Ok I’ve seen the anti-faker movement cause a lot more problems than it aims to solve, so I’m going to try to do some educating here.

Federal ADA law states that a dog need only be task trained to mitigate a handler’s disability, potty trained, and not aggressive. ANYTHING ELSE (including bad manners) does not mean the dog isn’t a service dog in the eyes of the law.

Many dogs can perform tasks while being held or confined (toy diabetic alert dogs can still work while being carried or in a purse, for example). Some tasks actually look like bad manners. Mobility/forward momentum tasks can look like bad walking manners, for example. For that matter, dogs are not robots. You may see a dog that looks like it is completely distracted, when it’s really just having an off moment.

If you don’t know the handler, you likely don’t know the nature of their disability and how the dog has been trained. “Outing” someone who happens to look like a faker (at least based on posts like this) can be hugely triggering. I’m tired of hearing about friends being attacked for this sort of thing, when their dogs actually do fantastic work. You can’t tell just by looking at a SD team what their whole situation is.

To be clear, I don’t condone faking AT ALL. It’s gross behavior. I don’t condone skipping public access training (unless you’re an at-home team), even though it’s not required. Taking a sloppy service dog out in public reflects poorly upon all SD teams. But we don’t need a witch hunt based on posts like this.

Lastly, it is not federally against the law to fake. Some states have laws about it, but I’ve spoken to the Department of Justice on this and they confirmed that it is not a federal crime.

strongbirdjay-blog

My seizure alert dog is trained to have her eyes on me at all times. When I leave the room without her or she’s taken away from me when we go to the vet, she gets frantic. Not because of separation anxiety but because that’s what she was TRAINED TO DO. When she makes low barely audible growls she’s alerting me that something is wrong. She’s not a biting dog and is trained to vocalize instead of any kind of attack, she’s not vicious, she is trained to alert me. When I go into places that have food, I put her in a carrying bag. She is a very small dog, a ten pound westie. For this reason people assume she’s not performing a task and hassle me about it. I don’t like the stares. I don’t like the questions. I just want to be able to go places safely. Not all service dogs are big labs or shepherds- my tiny white dog is highly trained for specialized tasks and knows over 200 commands. Don’t assume.

Yes it’s bad when people fake having a service dog but it’s worse when assholes assume a dog isn’t needed because of the reasons the op is trying to say. Just don’t assume. Don’t approach us.

derpy-greyhound

This is super important

k9kesi

Reblogging for the commentary, I never liked this when I saw the original (especially the pictures of what “fakes” look like). The bottom line too is it’s not up to the general public to out “fakers.” Mind your own business. It’s better a “faker” (and I don’t think it’s THAT common) get away with it than possibly impinging on the rights and privacy of people with legitimate service dogs.

nnnothnx

Please please please everyone needs to read this commentary

kaoticspoonie

Kaos is trained to watch the ground when given certain commands when I can’t see as well (I have a tendency to trip when my vision goes blurry). He is trained to pull me out of a store or away from ppl when I’m dissaociating. He recently picked up barking at ppl who try to touch me when I’m having super high pain days. We are trying to get him to alert in a different way but it is a work in progress.

Some days I don’t even bother taking Kaos with me because it is to stressful to be called a faker every five minutes.

painsomniac-deactivated20190202

Moonshoes pulls me around. Literally. I don’t have the energy to walk around all day and she can go forever, so she pulls until I tell her not to. She watches my surroundings so I can relax because of my PTSD; I don’t need her to watch me all the time. I need her to make sure I’m safe. She might need to be on my lap or licking me a lot. She might need to be bringing me toys (which she’s done before in Target and we had to buy a stuffed animal because she was helping me). She might need to jump up on me, or a counter.

If you see a dog doing something in public that might seem like bad manners, as long as it’s not aggression or eating off the floor, chances are it’s doing it for a reason. Everyone is quick to scream fake without knowing the handler or their disabilities. So stop.

stormthetruck

This, also with the super large breed dogs. I have people freak out over my great dane but he helps me balance/helps me up. As well as helping me calm down from a PTSD trigger. I’m much more confident in public when he’s with me but peoplle assume. Especially if he seems standoffish at first because he’s making sure I’m okay before approaching someone trying to get his attention(and that I release him to say hi)