Aug 21, 2019
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It is certified to protect you from danger, guide you, provide therapy, retrieve items and offer comfort and support. Service dogs need gear to accomplish their jobs.
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Service Dog: DYK?(No petting)
Hi, since I am new here to tumblr, I thought I would share one of my “DYK” posts from my Facebook page! Hello Family, Friends, and Fans! It is that time again: Did you know, that you should not pet a service dog while it is working? Okay, some of you probably answered “Yes”, if so, did you also know that you should also not talk to, distract or even make eye contact with a service dog while it’s working? Also, if you answered “yes” to either question, do you know the answer as to “why” that is? Well, I can help out with that! There are several reasons why the policy should be “No talk, No touch, and No eye contact” with a service dog. One simple reason is this: While working, service dogs like me are not ‘pets’. We are medical pieces of equipment. So with this in mind, we have a job to do. We are there to aid our handlers and not out to get attention. When you pet us, or talk to us, or even make eye contact with us, you risk distracting us. On a lot of service dogs, a simple act of distraction, can be the difference in the health and even life of our handler. If our soul sob while on duty is to be looking out for our disabled handler, if you talk to us, we might miss that tell-tale sign of an oncoming seizure, or the sudden drop or raise of blood sugar, or miss the sign or a heart issue. Or if it is a hearing dog or a guide dog we might miss something in the environment we were supposed to alert our handlers too.
That being said, yes service dogs should ignore distractions, but we are not robots and we make mistakes. Some temptations on some days might be too much. With that being said, it’s also not fair. When you talk to me in that friendly voice, I like people, I want to visit you and let you pet me, but I can’t, and I know I can’t. So by you going “hey pretty puppy, I know I can’t pet you” in that high friendly voice, you are in fact teasing me. I know that is not your intention but the point is you are.
Yes, we know there are dog lovers out there, my mom is one. But please understand that we have a job to do and do not want to be distracted from our important task. We aren’t allowed in public for amusement, we are there for a job. After all, people would look rather funny talking to crutches, a wheel chair, or even an oxygen tank, now wouldn’t they? You talking to us while on-duty is no different. You also don’t talk to doctors while they are doing surgery on a patient, or guards that are trying to protect and watch something, or a police man who is doing something to save someone about something that does not pertain to what they are doing, again we are no different.
Some of us, like myself, have a command that allows us to be greeted by others, WHEN and only when my mom thinks she is in a situation that that would be okay. If people ask her if they can pet me, she will either say ‘yes’ or she will say ‘no’. If she says yes, she gives me my special command, that allows me to greet people, then will give another command to call me back on duty. But she won’t always say yes, nor should you expect other teams to say yes. Most service dogs love people by nature, as we have to be good natured to be in public. So having someone talking to us or petting us, can make us start looking for attention, and that is bad for our disabled handlers.
So please, remember “No talk, No touch, and No eye contact” with service dogs and help share the word. If you want to address them, always address the handler, and never the dog without permission from the handler. If you ask to pet and the handler says no, do not take offense, please understand that our handlers need us or we wouldn’t be out in public with them where pets are not allowed. We have jobs to do. Also please understand, we all have time off working where we get to be dogs and get a lot of attention, but when on duty we are working.
Thank you! – L.J. Sparrow the Service dog! https://www.facebook.com/LittleJackSparrowdog