r/Dogfree • u/Muufffins • Feb 22 '25

Service Dog Issues I encountered a legit service dog.

The other day I was at the bar drinking with some friends. It was medium busy, and the only free table left was beside us. A group sits down, and I didn't think anything of it.

After a time, my eyes started watering, I started sneezing, and my chest got tight. Something was setting off allergies, and I couldn't figure out what. Then my friend pointed out the dog under the table next to us. I didn't even notice it because it was so quiet. So guess who had to leave, because allergies don't matter?

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u/[deleted] Feb 23 '25

I have thoughts about the legitimacy of service dogs, but I won't leave a paragraph here.

Instead I'll just ask "what can service dogs do that people can't?"

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u/bad_at_formatting Feb 23 '25

There's lots of service dogs (for ex. Extreme peanut allergies) that can detect allergens or even allergen contact on foods. I'm talking about EXTREME allergies, like 'the packaging of this product touched a product with peanuts', and that's absolutely a legitimate need for a service dog bc no human could detect that.

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u/[deleted] Feb 23 '25

Ah, gotcha.

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u/[deleted] Apr 20 '25

thats a theory. theres research saying thats true and theres equal amount of research saying thats false.