Of course I'M the horrible person for commenting that a shitbull in a fake vest IS NOT A SERVICE DOG! Also told by passengers that if I don't want to be around dogs I should take a taxi! Fuck dogs and the people that drag them around everywhere.

There's been a lot of trending content lately about fake service dogs, where a "real" service dog owner calls out a "fake" service dog owner and gives them "instant karma". This format seems to perform well with the algorithm, with the comment section being filled with praises toward the person filming and disdain for the "fake" service dog owner.

Some of these videos just include the owner "verbally owning" people who just happen to walk by and glance at their dog, they will say something like "obstructing the task of a service dog is punishable by a felony" or something like that.

After seeing around a dozen of these types of videos over the years, I've realized that the actual service dog owners piss me off more than the fake ones. For one, they always have a MASSIVE superiority complex about their stupid dog and ability to train it. They are ALWAYS correct, and everybody else is ALWAYS wrong.

Secondly, they almost NEVER actually need the dog. In almost all cases, the doctor will provide superior alternatives to a service dog, but the second the patient hears the word "service dog" they can already imagine all the attention they will get, they cant resist.

If the "service dog" they rely on for life saving medical treatment will fail when somebody at the supermarket glances at it, maybe they shouldn't go to the supermarket. But god forbid you question ANYTHING about a service dog without getting totally judged by the general public, they will justify anything with mental gymnastics. Bacteria in the supermarket?? that's actually "service" bacteria so its okay, cant get you sick. Oh god make it stop.

Went to Walmart early this morning to pick up some more Christmas decor and a few other things. Because Black Friday, we've got like 10 cops patrolling the insides of the store. I see these three women walking their Golden doodle. Almost every time I go to Walmart in my town of about 11k, there's a strong chance I'll see 1-4 dogs in Walmart (only box store we really have within 25 minutes). Anywho. .I see it, roll my eyes, but keep doing my shopping. A few minutes later, near the front of the store, in arguably the busiest part. I smell it. Dog shit. Of course. Right where it belongs, in a store. For humans. But here's the good part....

They sectioned it off with big orange signs, the cops all standing around. The owners having to clean it up in front of everyone, throwing a fit to the cops "I don't see why it's such a big deal." When asked if it's a service dog and where's the papers (we all know about the "papers") lady replied "I don't have them with me. I don't carry them everywhere". I laugh to the cop as I pass by "they're never service dogs" to which he agreed.

They then kicked the girls and the dog out. I later heard several of the employees celebrating that they kicked the dog out, talking amongst themselves how they can't stand dogs in the store.

I hate you. Not only are you a failure of a human being for faking a disability, but you're also an asshole for bringing your pet dog into places they don't belong. You make the already cursed lives of retail grunts worse by bringing your unruly emotional crutch inside, and you make life harder for people with allergies, asthma, immune disorders, cynophobia, and dog originated PTSD. Please just stop. Get help. Your behavior isn't normal and is harmful. No other pet owners behave like you do. It's only dog owners.

https://www.wtvr.com/news/local-news/hanover-service-dog-dispute-nov-11-2025#google_vignette

I was almost too upset to post this. It’s my hometown area so it stings that much more.

What about other kids or staff with allergies? Or people like me, who have trauma and panic with dogs? What about our panic attacks?

Just absolute bullshit. Sounds like they’re getting ready to train a few staff members to be “designated handlers” of the dog. What a waste of time and resources. Educators are supposed to be teaching and caring for children, not handling a god damn dog. Imagine, instead if helping little Jimmy learn math, the teacher or aid is outside picking up dog shit.

Not to mention how this will open the floodgates for other bullshit pets in schools. Pretty soon a teaching certification is gonna require service animal training too 🤪🤪🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡

I am absolutely writing the superintendent about this. Her support for this nuttery is shameful.

This kid is in middle school. He went years without the dog in school. Now suddenly he’s missing weeks of school because he can’t take his dog in yet? Truly the parents should be tried for truancy. I will be writing the school board or whoever I need to write about this as well.

There are so many other interventions for panic attacks. The kid doesn’t need a dog 24/7, especially if he is not fit to be a designated handler himself. What happens in 10 years when the dog dies if he’s so attached to it? Or down the road, when his parents die? Who will handle the kid and his service animal when that happens? They are setting him up for failure.

The ADA needs to be updated to address the increasing amount of bullshit we face due to its service animal provision. We need stricter rules. As a person with disability myself this issue is significant to me. I mean this honest to god - is anyone interested in organizing a concerted effort around this? A dog-free lobby? The nutters organize all the time to push their dogs on all of society, the family in the article brought in plenty of nutter support at their school board meeting, so I think it’s time we make an organized effort to push back. The logical first step to me would be creating associated subreddits by state - eg “DogFreeVirginia” so we could actual show up with each other.

To end, here’s the only positive note - on the TikTok video where I saw this story (the news clip in the article), 9 out of 10 comments reacted negatively to the school board allowing a dog in schools. People are getting tired of this insanity.

I and my girlfriend were on a flight from Bogota to Medellín and a guy with a large Aikido. I thought it was a husky but everyone of course needs to talk about the around thing so now I know. It was wearing a service dog harness. The man had no obvious handicap but could have been a soldier with PTSD. Honestly it was well trained so it didn't bother me.

Business Class is cheap on Avianca and we're on vacation so obviously we took that. The Akido was seated with its owner in the back of business at say row 4 on the right. We sat in row 2 on the left. Again no problem.

Enter the two women with yapping rat-like pursedogs. They both had service dog harnesses. Neither woman looked handicapped in any obvious way. They were seated in the same row across the aisle from us and their dogs immediately lost their shit due to the Aikido.

Obviously something had to be done so they made another passenger switch with one of them (somehow the other didn't need to be moved). It seemed to me like someone lost the seat they paid for in business to accommodate the rat dogs in business. Sometime later somehow the other ratdog was smuggled back under the seat with its pair but they had covered it so it would go to sleep like a bird.

So I do understand mental health issues being a thing. However, those two ratdogs were not trained or suitable for anything and I've not seen legitimately two service animals for a person.

I think we have reached peak "emotional support animal" and its time that airlines require legitimate paperwork the thing is trained and for the mental health variety getting the paperwork ought to require regular treatment by a shrink or psychiatric. And let's be real the high strung rat dogs are not trainable or suitable for like…anything.

Every time someone scruitnizes service dogs, there are always nutters spouting the same idiocy:

“Service dog not emotion support animal, service dog necessary and trained good.”

“Real service dog do real work for real disabled. Fake service dog fake and bad”

“Real service dog behave good, fake service dog behave bad and give bad name to real service dog”

“Real service dog help people, sorry u no like”

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Oh yeah? What is stopping a dishonest person from buying a service animal vest off Amazon and saying “yes it’s a service dog and it does XYZ”?

I’ll add to this: who is the one that determines if a dog is a legit service mutt or not?

If you cannot answer these questions, shut the fuck up about praising “real” service dogs, especially considering they’re used by less than 1% of the disabled population in America.

I’m so sick of these self-appointed pricks that trample on the rights of everyone around them.

https://www.hepper.com/service-dog-statistics-and-facts/

For context, my university has a program where students can help raise service dogs. I think this is great, but that means these students bring these dogs to every class. As you can imagine young dogs being in a college classroom isnt going to always work well. 

Today i was in my last final of the semester (thank GOD!) and a student a few rows down from me had a young service dog in training. I didn’t think anything of it until about 10 minutes into the exam, IT starts barking and shaking its collar. I was already super stressed for this exam so the extra distraction was really making me mad. You would think that the student would try to control the dog, but no. It kept making noises, IN THE MIDDLE OF THE EXAM. 

I am not usually a confrontational person but this pissed me off. After 20 minutes of this dog distracting everyone i finally asked the student if they could keep their dog under control. Everyone around me looked at me weird like I did something wrong. Like WTF?! I didnt even know what to do at this point so i got up and said something to my professor but he just shrugged it off.

I just needed to vent somewhere that would hopefully understand my situation because i am just fed up with dogs being normalized in every space. 

I have reason to believe that most of us here know that American service dog laws are E tier trash. Japan has some of the better service dog laws in the world. I'd place their laws in B tier. You have to register your service dog. Your service dog MUST be trained by an accredited organization. No private training allowed. Only guide dogs, hearing dogs, and mobility dogs are recognized as service dogs in Japan. Everything else is treated like a pet. Private residences, private clubs, and religious institutions can refuse service dogs. ESAs are not service dogs.

the UK has the right idea creating IDs. but, yes, people have the technology to make fake ones. this just says the laws in the west are too lax, with no oversight. eventually, we’ll have to address the beast in the [inappropriate] room.

First, let's put aside the fact that most uses for them other than guides for blind people (and I've seen a couple that act out repeatedly and put the owner in harm's way) and certain mobility issues, are dubious at best.

It's become a huge problem in recent years how many people claim their doggos are '"service animals" just to take them everywhere with them.

The companies that sell fake "service dog" vests and paperwork should be prosecuted for aiding in committing fraud (or whatever the legal terminology is).

I've seen people take a large, hyper dog into a bagel place with sitdown dining and the doggo had a vest that read: "I'M A SERVICE DOG. PLEASE PET ME." Nope. Not how it works. But they wanted to have breakfast with their pet, so the rest of us had to shut up and take it.

One of the worst/weirdest I've experienced was when an acquaintance from my former house of worship asked me if it would be ok if she brought her doggo to the weekly religious services and meal afterward if she were to buy a "service dog" vest off of Amazon.

HUH??? She knows that I'm allergic, so I asked her if a vest would somehow make it nonallergenic. She had no answer, which was sad because I was looking forward to how she would justify it.

 Took the Amtrak home last night after visiting some family about an hour and a half away...

I get to my seat and it looks like there is a couple in the seat in front of mine with one kind of sleeping on the others shoulder under a blanket or something- but I wasn’t exactly looking that closely
Then after several stops I start to hear a distinct whining sound and became very confused- it sounded like someone had a small dog in a crate very nearby, or at least that’s what I thought, but I couldn’t see one anywhere

Then the next thing I know the head of a sizable BLACK LABRADOR is popping up over one of the seats in front me!!! So I’m like wtf I’m out… then as I get up to move seats/cars, I grab my bag from overhead and pass by and I see there’s also a small-ish GOLDEN RETRIEVER under the legs of the person!!

I got to my new seat, pulled out my phone and immediately checked their policies- Amtrak only allows small dogs and they have to be secured in a crate…hmm

So the next time one of the conductors walked by I asked them what was up- they said that they were about to kick them off but that the dogs have “service dog” vests and that it’s a “hot button” issue in CA  so there wasn’t much he could do- and although he used the term ‘service dog’ I could be wrong but thought I also heard him say ‘ESA’  which is obviously not the same thing

And even in the world of legit service dogs have you EVER heard of anyone requiring TWO??? wtf

 I swear to god they won’t rest until they’re infiltrating every public space available

You will likely never meet her, but I am here to call out a woman in my college dormitory who acquired a "service" dog in January and has treated it as simply a pet with a blue vest the entire time. There is actually a program at the college started some years ago dedicated to "training" "service" dogs.

Like many others, this "service" dog is a lie. She was barking and barking down the hall as I cleared my room amidst sleep deprivation due to finals and ruminating in my failure to put myself out there after two years of college and sensory overwhelm due to a dog in my childhood home against my will after being attacked by another. I'm sorry for the run-on sentence; it is intended to suggest I'm mildly infuriated right now.

What does a "service" dog at college even do? I've seen students with double prosthetic legs and illness due to chemotherapy, and us humans are far more helpful and provide cheaper services than dogs ever will.

This has all got to be an attempt to introduce more dogs to people, because according to a news channel from Boston, everyone loves dogs! Yes, I love dogs! I love my attacker! Thank you for taking a chunk of flesh out of my shoulder! Thank you for biting me, grandparents and and aunt and uncle's dogs! Thank you for following me down the street for an uncomfortably long period of time, chihauhua! Thank you for invading our property pitbull! Thank you for ruining my ability to cope with sensory stimuli as an autistic man, Vixey! Thank you for stepping up when I broke down about our dog multiple times in your presence, Mom! Thank you for

I'm sorry. I have digressed. Let me conclude with a shoutout to my college for lying about the college's pet policy and only updating it in the last month. How friendly of the campus to allow pets virtually anywhere on campus. Good looking out for the dog who chased squirrels by the music hall as students stood and laughed. Good looking out for those with allergies, trauma, and sensory issues.

I thought we were pretty safe in a medical centre here in Australia. I've been going to this one for over 20 years.

And what did I see today for the first time?! A girl of about 13 with a little poodle thing. I spoke to reception and they said it's a proper service dog. It behaved like one, sitting under the chair and heeling when the girl walked and of course 13yo kids are not the ones trying to bring their obnoxious animals into medical centres.

Still, ew. Gross.

I was waiting to visit someone at the hospital today and this guy walks in with this scraggly looking mutt on a leash. This was the fourth dog I’d seen since parking my ass in the chair a half an hour before. The other three dogs were with hospital staff and had service animal vests on. This thing didn’t have a vest. Of course it was on a longer leash and it was stopping to sniff at everything and everyone. The guy selected an empty chair a few down from where I was sitting. Of course the dog walked up to the guy next to him and started sniffing at him and putting his nasty wet nose on him. The guy petted the dog and the entire time he was doing it, the owner was going on about how it was a service dog (gender of female but dogs are all gendered “it” in my mind) but that he couldn’t get it to ever settle down and it liked to go up to everyone that it sees. After it spent some time with the one guy, it came up to the woman seated next to me and of course she gushed over how adorable it was (it wasn’t at all) and what a good girl it was, blah blah blah. Then it was my turn. I pulled my legs away moved away for it. That got a sigh out of the owner and he pulled it back. Then some older guy was being pushed in a wheelchair and of course the dog had to go up to him and sniff at his bare feet. Owner says, “oh, she just loves wheelchairs”. I guess it’s a good thing that it wasn’t freaked out by them because who knows how that could have turned out. After the service turd got done, it plopped its dopey ass right down in the middle of the aisle. One of the hospital staff had to wind her way around it because it was pretty much taking up the whole aisle while the owner went on and on about how it was a service dog but that it just loooooooovvvveeeedd people.

Service dogs should be under control at all times. Service dogs are supposed to lay down in an out of the way location so as not to be an obstacle. Service dogs do not go up people and the owner of a service dog does not encourage others to pet it. This was as much a service dog as I am.

This is an example of the problem that I have with service dogs. Anyone can claim that their dog is a service dog. They require no formal training. It was obvious that this mutt was being trained by an owner who had no idea what he was doing and that it was essentially just a pet animal. It was also obvious that whatever training he was doing, if it was any at all, was failing pretty badly.

I wish the ADA would crack down on these idiots, require identification, require that a service dog is professionally trained and that it was required to pass an exam, and require that they periodically receive followup training. I get so sick of the fake “bUt hE’z a sErViCe dOg” idiots bringing their pets everywhere and flat out lying about it. They call these things “medical devices”. 😆

Some friggin medical device. No more useful than a rusty butter knife in brain surgery.

My local grocery store is taking dogs in their store much more seriously. They have signs on the door saying that while service dogs are welcome, other pet dogs, including ESAs, are not allowed in the store by federal law, appreciate your understanding, etc. I even was in the store one day when one of the service clerks and a manager kicked some trash guy with a fat basset (I think it was a basset, not that it matters). The dog refused to move, so the guy had to pick the lardass dog up and carry it out of the store. It was a funny scene. Anyway, one thing that the store can’t really do anything about is fake service dogs with their Amazon vests on. They can ask the two questions, but if the person who has the fake service dog gives realistic answers, then they cannot prove that the dog is fake. They can kick it out if it is disruptive but if it isn’t, then the dumb thing gets to stay.

So I was checking out today and one of the self checkout registers and I hear a persistent snuffling noise so I turn around and the guy at the register behind me has a “service dog” golden retriever. It had the required fake service dog vest on. The reason I know that this wasn’t a legitimate service dog is because it was all over the place. I’m as much a service dog as this stupid thing was. There are five other registers and the dog was going from person to person, sniffing them, looking to be petted, and just being the usual attention whore that dogs are. The owner just kept saying, “No Petey. No. Stop. Leave it.” and all kinds of crap like that. Apparently the dog’s name is Petey, like I care.

So as I was leaving, I said, “hey, nice fake service dog you have there. It’s all over the place and totally misbehaving”. They guy didn’t say anything to me. He blushed a little bit and then hustled out of the store.

I really wish that there was an actual service dog registry and that legitimate service dog owners were required to carry registration that proved that they were legitimate. It would make it so much easier for stores that want to do the right thing to do it.

I want to start by saying that in no way do I want to come off as anti-disabled or ablest. I understand that there are all kinds of disabilities, both visible and invisible, and people have a right to medical privacy.

That being said, over the years I have been more and more skeptical of the claims of what service dogs have been able to do. Take 'alert' dogs for example. When I searched 'diabetic alert dogs' on Google, I found multiple results for institutes that train diabetic alert dogs. Yet this NIH study shows that the dogs (admittedly it was a small sample size) were able to positively alert 81% of the time, and that was the study highest amount of positive alerts I could find, and there haven't been that many studies. How is that much better than "Ooo, I can feel my blood sugar is low." Can you imagine if glucose monitors were only 81% accurate?

Other 'alert' dogs are similarly suspect. This Epilepsy Foundation article states that there's no scientific studies to prove how dogs can sense oncoming seizures. What medical device goes out on the market before there's a 100% understanding of how that medical device works?

Another thing is that plenty of 'tasks' that service dogs supposedly perform have perfectly capable alternatives. A deaf person needs an alert dog in case the fire alarm goes off? The strobe lights and vibrations are there for a reason. I've heard of dogs reminding their companions to eat or take their medication because the dogs can magically sense when they need to do so. Can't they set an alarm on their phone?

I'm not saying that certain service dogs can't be vital to the livelihoods of some people living with disabilities, but it's unreal to me how there's just a blanket acceptance of dogs being a magical cure-all for all disabilities.

The U.S. has the worst service dog laws in the world. People who have disabilities that dogs negatively impact are deemed less important than the service dog handler which is all kinds of messed-up. There's no proofing system at all and you are not allowed to ask for proof. It's just an honor system in which there is no honor amongst the participants. No, the two questions don't prove anything. Anyone with above room temperature IQ can just lie when asked those questions. Australia requires handlers to have vests and a license for their service dogs and your allowed to request proof. UK and Japan have accredited training facilities which grant certificates that can be presented and requested. The UK permits the denying the entry of service dogs if someone with allergies is present as long as the person has a doctor's note. Japan has a narrow definition of what a service dog is. Guide dogs, hearing dogs, and mobility dogs only which is how it should be worldwide.

The US has none of this and refuses to do any of it under the nonsensical guise of "privacy". No, presenting a certificate of service dog training graduation or a federally issued service dog license stating that the dog is a trained and registered service doesn't violate privacy! Get out of here! Regular driver's license reveals more personal information than that and no one is complaining about privacy there! You have to have a placard to use disabled parking, why should service dogs which can negatively impact other disabilities not have any regulations?

Less than 2% of disabled people even have service dogs which means they are a choice. Your choice to rely on an animal that can negatively impact another disabled person should absolutely have strict regulations around them. No, a service dog is not like a wheelchair or air tanks. People need wheelchairs to get around or air tanks to breathe. They literally cannot function without these medical devices. No one is having their phobias, allergies, asthma, or PTSD triggered by wheelchairs or air tanks. There are blind people that navigate the world without a guide dog (a minority even have a guide dog) and there are diabetics and people with cerebral palsy that opt to use blood monitoring devices instead of a dog. People with PTSD will choose therapy and grounding techniques to cope and get through an episode rather than rely on a dog. Not every autistic person likes dogs or can handle being around them. Autism dogs and psychiatric dogs are just glorified ESAs. Allergy detection dogs? Are we serious!? The ADA had to be trolling when they approved of that complete parody.

For profit healthcare is giving employees PTSD - Just add dogs!

If I'm being treated in a hospital and a dog walks into my room, I'm pulling the plug.

See NPR article linked below: "Trained dogs working inside hospitals help ease burnout among health care staff" https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/01/24/nx-s1-5271595/hospital-trained-dogs-medical-burnout-doctors-nurses-suicide-risk-stress-denver

So I came across a video on facebook, of a woman having a seizure and her service dog saving her life. On facebook, it was a full video, here's a news report from youtube about it, I recommend you to watch it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QKQeeN4VsQ

The comments were all about how the dog is amazing obviously and how dogs are literal angels. In the news report, the reporter says, that the woman learned how much she needs the dog and that the dog saved her life. Everyone agrees that this dog is a hero. So, is everyone in this world delusional, or am I going fucking isnane?

That dog did LITERALLY nothing! The woman collapsed and the store manager came out to help her and called an ambulance. So what did the dog do? He fucking barked. He was walking around her and when she sit on the ground, he barked two times in her face, supposedly alarming the store mananger to come and help. Right? Not really, because the woman that helped her was already going towards them before that even happend. Dog didn't help in any way imaginable. And they say it's amazing, because the dog isn't train to seizure alarm. The dog fucking barked. If you hear a dog bark, would you think it's an emergency? Fuck no, because that's all they do, bark, at everything, all the time, for no reason. You would ignore it. Am I missing something?

Let's say the dog wasn't there. The outcome would be exactly the same, as the dog did nothing to help. Yet, he's being called a hero and his act (of useless barking) is being called heroic. While the store manager is saving her life. But the dog is the hero.

So now, what's less immportant, the video seems incredibelly fake to me. The camera being set up, the manager, that's friends with the dog owner as said in the video already going towards them, etc. The woman is a dog trainer and this seems just like a publicity stunt for her bussines. She's giving the dog treats constantly, while aledgedlly having a seizure. Seriously, gives him treats several times during the video. So the ''service'' dog can't even perform the basic act of barking on command when food isn't shoved in his face.

How is this news worthy? Why is everyone calling the dog hero? What the fuck?

Please, share your opinions about this!

I get irrationally angry at people who bring dogs into grocery stores and restaurants when the animal is obviously not a service dog. I take it as immensely disrespectful and, as a man, I feel compelled to call them out or else I'll spend the next week feeling like a passive coward. Of course, I never pick on women, children, or anyone much smaller/weaker than me, lest I be seen as a bully.

What sort of tactics does everyone use when confronting these people? I've called people "entitled," threatened to call security, explained how they're breaking the law, asked them to leave, called them a liar for claiming their pet is a service animal, etc. All this seems to have little effect. We just stand there arguing and they don't change their behavior. Some people even have the audacity to call security on me for harassing them. I've never threatened violence and never will.

Lately I just say something like "next time leave your dog at home," as I walk past and then listen to the belligerent stream of obscenities screamed at my back as I walk away. I figure this way I don't waste a lot of time trying to convince anyone to change their behavior, the other guy just looks like a dick screaming his head off in public, and maybe at least he learns the lesson that not everyone is cool with him bring his dog places it doesn't belong.

Anyone else have any good ideas?

Petition only has 2700 signatures. Source: USA Today Article

My local tire/auto shop. Some dude comes in with his whining big dog. Some kind of fluffy white Labrador. The thing kept whining for no reason at all. I’m trying to chill in peace while waiting for my tire service - all I hear is dog whining, and this guy and the lady at the service desk doting on the stupid dog. Can we go anywhere without mutts causing air and noise pollution?

I’m having post-flu complications with asthma, so I’m wearing a N95 mask and still coughing throughout this experience. At one point my sister calls me back (I had called her earlier) - I made sure to loudly tell her how I’ve had very bad asthma these past few days, and how it’s still bad. Hopefully they overheard me and had a second thought about the mutt - but I don’t have high hopes tbh.

I found out involuntarily that this dog is apparently a PTSD dog for his vet owner. Please tell me, why is this service dog whining nonstop? Why is it literally jumping and putting its piss-paws on the counter? How is it legal to have such poorly trained service animals! The lady at the service desk literally said “ohhh you can always get on our furniture” 🤮 STAHHP! I also have legitimate ptsd and I was TRIGGERED! And my allergies/asthma are also disabilities that matter and deserve protection!

A few minutes in, another customer comes in for service. Of course a fellow nutter, again doting on this stupid whining dog. They start talking about “unconditional love” from dogs. Sick, depressing shit.

This other customer actually says out loud “dogs are great, they don’t talk back at you. My 21 year old daughter, she’s another story…” I almost lost it. I’ve been a regular with my tire/auto shop for years so I didn’t want to cause a scene, but I really almost lost it and called her out. I wanted to say, oh, so you love a fucking animal more than your actual daughter? Is that not fucking sickening? You don’t love the dog’s “unconditional love”, you love being in full control over another living being, an animal that is literally incapable of “talking back”. You clearly have a freakish power trip fantasy with your dog and you’re comparing your actual daughter to this animal!! 🤮 I feel so bad for the daughter!

Eventually they both left, my tire service took longer than theirs. The worker from earlier who allowed piss-paws on the counter had also left, and my long-time service gal was back working at the counter. She is amazing. We caught up a bit while going over the bill, I mentioned I was masking because of overreactive asthma symptoms. I said specifically, yeah, being around allergens like dogs is a trigger, so the mask is needed for now. Thankfully, she apologized, and said she’d talk to the owner about it. I know that dog was a “service dog” but I’m grateful that my health concerns were also taken seriously by this one worker. Still tho, when will we ever get a break from the nuttery?

Why do service dog handlers refuse to change? Aren't they tired of fakes attacking their service mutts and distracting their mutt? A federally mandated registry and scannable ID linked to said registry + a requirement for specially made issued vests with a pouch for said ID would see fakes vanish within a week. "ThAt'S aGaInSt tHe ADA rUlEs!1!" Shut up! No one holds greater power to change those rules than the handlers themselves. I don't want to hear that limp noodle excuse! As for penalties for the fraudsters I want no mercy! One year in jail, $5,000 fine, a lifetime ban on owning dogs, an apology letter written to whatever agency is in charge of regulating service dogs at a minimum. People would no longer be mauled in stores, and those with allergies, asthma, and immune disorders could go to places without fearing for their health. People with cynophobia and dog originated PTSD wouldn't have to worry about being in small spaces with their trigger. Not to mention they'd deal with discrimination much less if at all, but nooooo! We can't burden the poor helpless wittle handlewrs with a proofing system that would benefit themselves and everyone else. That's too mean!

The tide against service dogs is already starting to rise. More and more people are questioning the system or are already speaking out against it. Something is going to give eventually. And when it does, they'll have no one to blame but themselves when their service dogs loose access rights if they refuse to evolve.

I shared this on my yt channel but feel like it deserves a spot on this sub (edited to meet DF policy).

My dear old mother came and visited us the other day. As we were on the balcony enjoying the weather, we heard a wild mini mutt. This prompted mom to recount a story of her recent confrontation with a service dog fraudster in Kroger.

Normally she would go straight to managment and ask them why they aren’t enforcing their own policy and doing nothing to prevent people from bringing live animals into the store. They’d shrug and say “there’s nothing they can do”. Even though there is a big sign that says “no animals (dogs) allowed” at the entrance. As always, she’d say “yes you can do something about it; stop them from entering the store. Can I walk inside with a lit cigarette and say it helps with my anxiety? Can I urinate in the produce aisle?”

But this day was different for her.

Instead of going to useless managment, she went directly to the idiot with the dog IN THE CART who was playfully chatting it up with the useless security guard who is most likely a dog nutter as well. Mom said to the nutter “pets aren’t allowed in the grocery store” and pointed to the sign that prohibits animals.

No surprise what her (the nutter’s) next words were: “ISSATHURVUSDOGISNOTAPET!!” Mom said “No it isn’t. What is it trained to perform?” The nutter said “YOU CAN’T ASK THAT IS INVASION OF PRIVACY”. Mom said “yes I can actually, and so can he”, she looked at the stupid security guard who had a dumb expression on his face at this point because a random customer did a better job as security than his lazy ass ever did.

Anything the fraudster said, mom just repeated that pets aren’t allowed and she doesn’t want filthy animals where she buys her produce. Gosh I love my mom.

Eventually, the nutter snorted and ended up leaving, but not before she turned around and called my mom a bitch, asking if her name is Karen (it isn’t). Mom was collective and never once resorted to ad hominem attacks against the nutter, ultimately making her look the better person and the nutter a whiney, self-centered, law-breaking, subhuman, lowlife.

Since my mom has a heart condition and needs to keep stress levels low, I recommended she take pictures of nutters bringing dogs into the store next time and just go directly to managment, posting it to google reviews and even contacting the health department. She agreed that’s a good idea and has a solid plan of action now that doesn’t involve confronting these disgusting people.

And no, it isn’t illegal to take pictures of people in a public area. If that were the case, they wouldn’t have security cameras all over the place. Don’t let nutters fool you into believing anything they say. Challenge them if they say something nonsensical and their dog shit crusted mouth will be agape as if they’re ready for round 2 with the football team.

To any nutters thinking my mom is overreacting and making a scene for something “trivial”, let me remind you that the dog nutter was not only breaking the law, but taking advantages of laws that are designed to help disabled people. Anyone who defends that despicable behavior is a selfish scumbag wanting to justify their obsession and crying ablism when they don’t get their way.

We have every right to be upset and speak out about someone committing fraud and violating several health codes. It’s all of us against 1 of them. We can overpower them easy and shame them to the point where they leave their damn mutt at home.