Outrageous dog owner behaviors

[Anonymous]

Just because one service dog is diligent doesn’t mean they all are.

I have known many that were not at all like that, and I am a different poster. Especially dogs trained for specific things like diabetics/epilepsy. They often act like normal dogs until they sense an issue, and they “work” 24/7

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Anonymous wrote:The typical "faking a service dog" type behavior.

You're fooling NO ONE. I'd say most people have experience in knowing someone with a real service dog so they know how a real service animal will behave.

A dog pulling its way through Target is not a real service animal. A dog begging at a table in a restaurant is not a real service animal. A dog who wags its tail at every person walking down the airplane aisle is not a real service animal.

Working service dogs do not get distracted. They do not beg for food. They do not pull on their leash unless they are attempting to get help.

+1 I was in safeway a few months ago. A man and his dog were in line. There was an endcap right next to them; the dog took a step toward the endcap and sniffed the items on the bottom shell. A real service dog stays very close to the owner, with total attention on the owner. They do not even take one step away, let alone sniff stuff.

That's just not true. Service dogs are not robots. I've worked with blind people who had seeing eye dogs that accompanied them to work and conferences etc. and those dogs do sniff things that smell especially stimulating, like food. They do step more than a step away from their person. They do wag their tails and accept affection when offered. They are not robots.

Not when they are working, they don't. My friend has a cane corso that she's trained to be her service dog. When she's in a grocery store, her dog doesn't leave her side. He doesn't sniff anything or anyone. He has his full attention on her. When he's "off" he sniffs and is a very friendly and regular dog. But that's her diligent training. She can't have her very large cane corso approaching people, and she certainly has him trained not to sniff around the grocery store or any time that he's working.

Sorry, but you are full of excrement. Did I not say that I WORKED with people who had seeing eye dogs? THE DOGS WERE WORKING, after professional training at The Seeing Eye, and they sniffed, wagged their tails, accepted pats from coworkers.

I doubt your story is even true, and if it is, it's disturbing. A cane corso as a service dog? Those dogs are lethal. Sounds like your friend has a potentially lethal weapon as her ESA that she calls a service dog.

Why would the coworkers approach a working dog? That's a huge DON'T.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just because one service dog is diligent doesn’t mean they all are.

I have known many that were not at all like that, and I am a different poster. Especially dogs trained for specific things like diabetics/epilepsy. They often act like normal dogs until they sense an issue, and they “work” 24/7

What's with the quotes around work?

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Anonymous wrote:The typical "faking a service dog" type behavior.

You're fooling NO ONE. I'd say most people have experience in knowing someone with a real service dog so they know how a real service animal will behave.

A dog pulling its way through Target is not a real service animal. A dog begging at a table in a restaurant is not a real service animal. A dog who wags its tail at every person walking down the airplane aisle is not a real service animal.

Working service dogs do not get distracted. They do not beg for food. They do not pull on their leash unless they are attempting to get help.

+1 I was in safeway a few months ago. A man and his dog were in line. There was an endcap right next to them; the dog took a step toward the endcap and sniffed the items on the bottom shell. A real service dog stays very close to the owner, with total attention on the owner. They do not even take one step away, let alone sniff stuff.

That's just not true. Service dogs are not robots. I've worked with blind people who had seeing eye dogs that accompanied them to work and conferences etc. and those dogs do sniff things that smell especially stimulating, like food. They do step more than a step away from their person. They do wag their tails and accept affection when offered. They are not robots.

Not when they are working, they don't. My friend has a cane corso that she's trained to be her service dog. When she's in a grocery store, her dog doesn't leave her side. He doesn't sniff anything or anyone. He has his full attention on her. When he's "off" he sniffs and is a very friendly and regular dog. But that's her diligent training. She can't have her very large cane corso approaching people, and she certainly has him trained not to sniff around the grocery store or any time that he's working.

Sorry, but you are full of excrement. Did I not say that I WORKED with people who had seeing eye dogs? THE DOGS WERE WORKING, after professional training at The Seeing Eye, and they sniffed, wagged their tails, accepted pats from coworkers.

I doubt your story is even true, and if it is, it's disturbing. A cane corso as a service dog? Those dogs are lethal. Sounds like your friend has a potentially lethal weapon as her ESA that she calls a service dog.

My friend allows her dog to wag his tail, and sniff, and even allows pets. But never while he is working. She doesn't even allow people to approach him while he's working. I certainly hope your clients' dogs know how to stay focused in a grocery store and not sniff around. That's just gross.

She has a tiktok that's dedicated to her service dog, the training, and she shows him in action. Her dogs name is Kora. Check it out, I'm not exaggerating. https://www.tiktok.com/@kianilarose?lang=en

And since you think I'm lying, look at this video specifically. You can see her dog at her side, eyes on her the entire time. As soon as she stops moving her dog goes into an automatic down and his eyes are on her. This is an example of her dog in work mode.
https://www.tiktok.com/@kianilarose/video/7315075407991065898?lang=en

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This is how a true service dog behaves.

"therapy" dogs or "emotional support" dogs or "service" dogs that haven't been thoroughly trained, are not social when in work mode. This is an industry that is in bad need of regulation and restriction. And people with real, necessary needs for a service animal would agree.

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Anonymous wrote:No worse that someone bringing toddlers. In fact, most dogs are far better behaved than most American children.

I cannot stand these weak "What/about-ism" arguments. No one is talking about whether some toddlers are good or bad, the topic is bad dog owners. I am a dog owner and I have children. I do do not like to see dogs in the grocery store or being held by someone as they get food from a hot bar. Yuck. I saw a woman with a dog in at Harris Teeter at Crown the other day and it just looked filthy. And had a lbit of a dog smell and the owner was just walking around the grocery store with her dirty dog on a leash grocery shopping.

[Anonymous]

I was jogging in RCP a few days ago, on one of the Western trails, and saw an off leash dog stop and squat in the middle of the path. Owner sort of looked back but then kept walking several paces ahead.

I passed her and said, "oh hey, your dog just took a big poop in the middle of the trail". She was very well coiffed with an Eastern European accent, shrugged, and said "i know". I said, "great, then please go take care of it" she said "I have no paper" (I'm going to give her some benefit of the doubt here and assume this was a language issue and not an issue of someone that doesn't even know what a poop bag is.) At that time a second dog run up to us ... so she was out there with multiple dogs, no bags, and letting them poop IN THE MIDDLE of walking trails.

I told her the decent thing to do would be to at least go cover it up but then went on my way. It made me mad for hours.

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Anonymous wrote:The typical "faking a service dog" type behavior.

You're fooling NO ONE. I'd say most people have experience in knowing someone with a real service dog so they know how a real service animal will behave.

A dog pulling its way through Target is not a real service animal. A dog begging at a table in a restaurant is not a real service animal. A dog who wags its tail at every person walking down the airplane aisle is not a real service animal.

Working service dogs do not get distracted. They do not beg for food. They do not pull on their leash unless they are attempting to get help.

+1 I was in safeway a few months ago. A man and his dog were in line. There was an endcap right next to them; the dog took a step toward the endcap and sniffed the items on the bottom shell. A real service dog stays very close to the owner, with total attention on the owner. They do not even take one step away, let alone sniff stuff.

That's just not true. Service dogs are not robots. I've worked with blind people who had seeing eye dogs that accompanied them to work and conferences etc. and those dogs do sniff things that smell especially stimulating, like food. They do step more than a step away from their person. They do wag their tails and accept affection when offered. They are not robots.

Not when they are working, they don't. My friend has a cane corso that she's trained to be her service dog. When she's in a grocery store, her dog doesn't leave her side. He doesn't sniff anything or anyone. He has his full attention on her. When he's "off" he sniffs and is a very friendly and regular dog. But that's her diligent training. She can't have her very large cane corso approaching people, and she certainly has him trained not to sniff around the grocery store or any time that he's working.

Sorry, but you are full of excrement. Did I not say that I WORKED with people who had seeing eye dogs? THE DOGS WERE WORKING, after professional training at The Seeing Eye, and they sniffed, wagged their tails, accepted pats from coworkers.

I doubt your story is even true, and if it is, it's disturbing. A cane corso as a service dog? Those dogs are lethal. Sounds like your friend has a potentially lethal weapon as her ESA that she calls a service dog.

My friend allows her dog to wag his tail, and sniff, and even allows pets. But never while he is working. She doesn't even allow people to approach him while he's working. I certainly hope your clients' dogs know how to stay focused in a grocery store and not sniff around. That's just gross.

She has a tiktok that's dedicated to her service dog, the training, and she shows him in action. Her dogs name is Kora. Check it out, I'm not exaggerating. https://www.tiktok.com/@kianilarose?lang=en

And since you think I'm lying, look at this video specifically. You can see her dog at her side, eyes on her the entire time. As soon as she stops moving her dog goes into an automatic down and his eyes are on her. This is an example of her dog in work mode.
https://www.tiktok.com/@kianilarose/video/7315075407991065898?lang=en

Hmm. As someone who has trained 40 plus service dogs this one actually looks stressed AF. A good example of why most legit organizations stick to the Fab 5.

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Anonymous wrote:The typical "faking a service dog" type behavior.

You're fooling NO ONE. I'd say most people have experience in knowing someone with a real service dog so they know how a real service animal will behave.

A dog pulling its way through Target is not a real service animal. A dog begging at a table in a restaurant is not a real service animal. A dog who wags its tail at every person walking down the airplane aisle is not a real service animal.

Working service dogs do not get distracted. They do not beg for food. They do not pull on their leash unless they are attempting to get help.

+1 I was in safeway a few months ago. A man and his dog were in line. There was an endcap right next to them; the dog took a step toward the endcap and sniffed the items on the bottom shell. A real service dog stays very close to the owner, with total attention on the owner. They do not even take one step away, let alone sniff stuff.

That's just not true. Service dogs are not robots. I've worked with blind people who had seeing eye dogs that accompanied them to work and conferences etc. and those dogs do sniff things that smell especially stimulating, like food. They do step more than a step away from their person. They do wag their tails and accept affection when offered. They are not robots.

Not when they are working, they don't. My friend has a cane corso that she's trained to be her service dog. When she's in a grocery store, her dog doesn't leave her side. He doesn't sniff anything or anyone. He has his full attention on her. When he's "off" he sniffs and is a very friendly and regular dog. But that's her diligent training. She can't have her very large cane corso approaching people, and she certainly has him trained not to sniff around the grocery store or any time that he's working.

Sorry, but you are full of excrement. Did I not say that I WORKED with people who had seeing eye dogs? THE DOGS WERE WORKING, after professional training at The Seeing Eye, and they sniffed, wagged their tails, accepted pats from coworkers.

I doubt your story is even true, and if it is, it's disturbing. A cane corso as a service dog? Those dogs are lethal. Sounds like your friend has a potentially lethal weapon as her ESA that she calls a service dog.

My friend allows her dog to wag his tail, and sniff, and even allows pets. But never while he is working. She doesn't even allow people to approach him while he's working. I certainly hope your clients' dogs know how to stay focused in a grocery store and not sniff around. That's just gross.

She has a tiktok that's dedicated to her service dog, the training, and she shows him in action. Her dogs name is Kora. Check it out, I'm not exaggerating. https://www.tiktok.com/@kianilarose?lang=en

And since you think I'm lying, look at this video specifically. You can see her dog at her side, eyes on her the entire time. As soon as she stops moving her dog goes into an automatic down and his eyes are on her. This is an example of her dog in work mode.
https://www.tiktok.com/@kianilarose/video/7315075407991065898?lang=en

Hmm. As someone who has trained 40 plus service dogs this one actually looks stressed AF. A good example of why most legit organizations stick to the Fab 5.

Absolutely not. She has tons of videos showing a happy and well-adjusted dog. Her dog is well-trained, well-behaved, treated like a member of the family, and is happy and well adjusted. Her dog gets lots of off-duty time and is healthy and striving. She also has a cat, and they are live in a loving home together. Check out her other videos and stop hating.

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Anonymous wrote:The typical "faking a service dog" type behavior.

You're fooling NO ONE. I'd say most people have experience in knowing someone with a real service dog so they know how a real service animal will behave.

A dog pulling its way through Target is not a real service animal. A dog begging at a table in a restaurant is not a real service animal. A dog who wags its tail at every person walking down the airplane aisle is not a real service animal.

Working service dogs do not get distracted. They do not beg for food. They do not pull on their leash unless they are attempting to get help.

+1 I was in safeway a few months ago. A man and his dog were in line. There was an endcap right next to them; the dog took a step toward the endcap and sniffed the items on the bottom shell. A real service dog stays very close to the owner, with total attention on the owner. They do not even take one step away, let alone sniff stuff.

That's just not true. Service dogs are not robots. I've worked with blind people who had seeing eye dogs that accompanied them to work and conferences etc. and those dogs do sniff things that smell especially stimulating, like food. They do step more than a step away from their person. They do wag their tails and accept affection when offered. They are not robots.

Not when they are working, they don't. My friend has a cane corso that she's trained to be her service dog. When she's in a grocery store, her dog doesn't leave her side. He doesn't sniff anything or anyone. He has his full attention on her. When he's "off" he sniffs and is a very friendly and regular dog. But that's her diligent training. She can't have her very large cane corso approaching people, and she certainly has him trained not to sniff around the grocery store or any time that he's working.

Sorry, but you are full of excrement. Did I not say that I WORKED with people who had seeing eye dogs? THE DOGS WERE WORKING, after professional training at The Seeing Eye, and they sniffed, wagged their tails, accepted pats from coworkers.

I doubt your story is even true, and if it is, it's disturbing. A cane corso as a service dog? Those dogs are lethal. Sounds like your friend has a potentially lethal weapon as her ESA that she calls a service dog.

My friend allows her dog to wag his tail, and sniff, and even allows pets. But never while he is working. She doesn't even allow people to approach him while he's working. I certainly hope your clients' dogs know how to stay focused in a grocery store and not sniff around. That's just gross.

She has a tiktok that's dedicated to her service dog, the training, and she shows him in action. Her dogs name is Kora. Check it out, I'm not exaggerating. https://www.tiktok.com/@kianilarose?lang=en

And since you think I'm lying, look at this video specifically. You can see her dog at her side, eyes on her the entire time. As soon as she stops moving her dog goes into an automatic down and his eyes are on her. This is an example of her dog in work mode.
https://www.tiktok.com/@kianilarose/video/7315075407991065898?lang=en

Hmm. As someone who has trained 40 plus service dogs this one actually looks stressed AF. A good example of why most legit organizations stick to the Fab 5.

LOL ok, if that's your opinion. This dog lives a good life.

https://www.tiktok.com/@kianilarose/video/7329575687772245279?lang=en

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Anonymous wrote:I was jogging in RCP a few days ago, on one of the Western trails, and saw an off leash dog stop and squat in the middle of the path. Owner sort of looked back but then kept walking several paces ahead.

I passed her and said, "oh hey, your dog just took a big poop in the middle of the trail". She was very well coiffed with an Eastern European accent, shrugged, and said "i know". I said, "great, then please go take care of it" she said "I have no paper" (I'm going to give her some benefit of the doubt here and assume this was a language issue and not an issue of someone that doesn't even know what a poop bag is.) At that time a second dog run up to us ... so she was out there with multiple dogs, no bags, and letting them poop IN THE MIDDLE of walking trails.

I told her the decent thing to do would be to at least go cover it up but then went on my way. It made me mad for hours.

Off-leash dogs (in public spaces that are not meant to be off-leash) make me so mad. Almost as mad as all the dog crap I see in my neighborhood.

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Anonymous wrote:The typical "faking a service dog" type behavior.

You're fooling NO ONE. I'd say most people have experience in knowing someone with a real service dog so they know how a real service animal will behave.

A dog pulling its way through Target is not a real service animal. A dog begging at a table in a restaurant is not a real service animal. A dog who wags its tail at every person walking down the airplane aisle is not a real service animal.

Working service dogs do not get distracted. They do not beg for food. They do not pull on their leash unless they are attempting to get help.

+1 I was in safeway a few months ago. A man and his dog were in line. There was an endcap right next to them; the dog took a step toward the endcap and sniffed the items on the bottom shell. A real service dog stays very close to the owner, with total attention on the owner. They do not even take one step away, let alone sniff stuff.

That's just not true. Service dogs are not robots. I've worked with blind people who had seeing eye dogs that accompanied them to work and conferences etc. and those dogs do sniff things that smell especially stimulating, like food. They do step more than a step away from their person. They do wag their tails and accept affection when offered. They are not robots.

Not when they are working, they don't. My friend has a cane corso that she's trained to be her service dog. When she's in a grocery store, her dog doesn't leave her side. He doesn't sniff anything or anyone. He has his full attention on her. When he's "off" he sniffs and is a very friendly and regular dog. But that's her diligent training. She can't have her very large cane corso approaching people, and she certainly has him trained not to sniff around the grocery store or any time that he's working.

Sorry, but you are full of excrement. Did I not say that I WORKED with people who had seeing eye dogs? THE DOGS WERE WORKING, after professional training at The Seeing Eye, and they sniffed, wagged their tails, accepted pats from coworkers.

I doubt your story is even true, and if it is, it's disturbing. A cane corso as a service dog? Those dogs are lethal. Sounds like your friend has a potentially lethal weapon as her ESA that she calls a service dog.

My friend allows her dog to wag his tail, and sniff, and even allows pets. But never while he is working. She doesn't even allow people to approach him while he's working. I certainly hope your clients' dogs know how to stay focused in a grocery store and not sniff around. That's just gross.

She has a tiktok that's dedicated to her service dog, the training, and she shows him in action. Her dogs name is Kora. Check it out, I'm not exaggerating. https://www.tiktok.com/@kianilarose?lang=en

And since you think I'm lying, look at this video specifically. You can see her dog at her side, eyes on her the entire time. As soon as she stops moving her dog goes into an automatic down and his eyes are on her. This is an example of her dog in work mode.
https://www.tiktok.com/@kianilarose/video/7315075407991065898?lang=en

Hmm. As someone who has trained 40 plus service dogs this one actually looks stressed AF. A good example of why most legit organizations stick to the Fab 5.

LOL ok, if that's your opinion. This dog lives a good life.

https://www.tiktok.com/@kianilarose/video/7329575687772245279?lang=en

I'm not even hating, I'm sure this dog is fine and a good service dog and lives a great life with its handler. Live and let live. But it's also whale eyeing and looks stressed out so I wouldn't throw stones that an allergy detection or seizure alert dog might sniff a cookie. There's a range of normal for all legit service dogs. This one, like most, is not perfection.

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Anonymous wrote:The typical "faking a service dog" type behavior.

You're fooling NO ONE. I'd say most people have experience in knowing someone with a real service dog so they know how a real service animal will behave.

A dog pulling its way through Target is not a real service animal. A dog begging at a table in a restaurant is not a real service animal. A dog who wags its tail at every person walking down the airplane aisle is not a real service animal.

Working service dogs do not get distracted. They do not beg for food. They do not pull on their leash unless they are attempting to get help.

+1 I was in safeway a few months ago. A man and his dog were in line. There was an endcap right next to them; the dog took a step toward the endcap and sniffed the items on the bottom shell. A real service dog stays very close to the owner, with total attention on the owner. They do not even take one step away, let alone sniff stuff.

That's just not true. Service dogs are not robots. I've worked with blind people who had seeing eye dogs that accompanied them to work and conferences etc. and those dogs do sniff things that smell especially stimulating, like food. They do step more than a step away from their person. They do wag their tails and accept affection when offered. They are not robots.

Not when they are working, they don't. My friend has a cane corso that she's trained to be her service dog. When she's in a grocery store, her dog doesn't leave her side. He doesn't sniff anything or anyone. He has his full attention on her. When he's "off" he sniffs and is a very friendly and regular dog. But that's her diligent training. She can't have her very large cane corso approaching people, and she certainly has him trained not to sniff around the grocery store or any time that he's working.

Sorry, but you are full of excrement. Did I not say that I WORKED with people who had seeing eye dogs? THE DOGS WERE WORKING, after professional training at The Seeing Eye, and they sniffed, wagged their tails, accepted pats from coworkers.

I doubt your story is even true, and if it is, it's disturbing. A cane corso as a service dog? Those dogs are lethal. Sounds like your friend has a potentially lethal weapon as her ESA that she calls a service dog.

"Self trained" corso or pit. They're the truck nutz of service dogs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No worse that someone bringing toddlers. In fact, most dogs are far better behaved than most American children.

Accept toddlers are humans and dog dogs are well, dogs.

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Anonymous wrote:The typical "faking a service dog" type behavior.

You're fooling NO ONE. I'd say most people have experience in knowing someone with a real service dog so they know how a real service animal will behave.

A dog pulling its way through Target is not a real service animal. A dog begging at a table in a restaurant is not a real service animal. A dog who wags its tail at every person walking down the airplane aisle is not a real service animal.

Working service dogs do not get distracted. They do not beg for food. They do not pull on their leash unless they are attempting to get help.

+1 I was in safeway a few months ago. A man and his dog were in line. There was an endcap right next to them; the dog took a step toward the endcap and sniffed the items on the bottom shell. A real service dog stays very close to the owner, with total attention on the owner. They do not even take one step away, let alone sniff stuff.

That's just not true. Service dogs are not robots. I've worked with blind people who had seeing eye dogs that accompanied them to work and conferences etc. and those dogs do sniff things that smell especially stimulating, like food. They do step more than a step away from their person. They do wag their tails and accept affection when offered. They are not robots.

Not when they are working, they don't. My friend has a cane corso that she's trained to be her service dog. When she's in a grocery store, her dog doesn't leave her side. He doesn't sniff anything or anyone. He has his full attention on her. When he's "off" he sniffs and is a very friendly and regular dog. But that's her diligent training. She can't have her very large cane corso approaching people, and she certainly has him trained not to sniff around the grocery store or any time that he's working.

Sorry, but you are full of excrement. Did I not say that I WORKED with people who had seeing eye dogs? THE DOGS WERE WORKING, after professional training at The Seeing Eye, and they sniffed, wagged their tails, accepted pats from coworkers.

I doubt your story is even true, and if it is, it's disturbing. A cane corso as a service dog? Those dogs are lethal. Sounds like your friend has a potentially lethal weapon as her ESA that she calls a service dog.

"Self trained" corso or pit. They're the truck nutz of service dogs.

Exactly. Those are fighting dogs bred for thousands of doggy generations to be impervious to pain and killing machines. A cane corso as a ‘service’ dog is a sick joke. And most true service dogs are NOT self trained, ESAs are self trained.

As another poster pointed out, the service dog foundations use retrievers and shepherds and poodles because they are among the most intelligent and most reliable temperamentally, thus most effectively trained.

And for the poster who asked - the seeing eye goldens and shepherds I worked with because I had blind coworkers accepted affection after I was invited to give it by their owners/handlers.

I think people are confused because while it is true that service dogs shouldn’t be approached when they are in training and/or working without permission of the handler, once a service dog is trained well and the training is locked in, it is well within the acceptable parameters for the handler to say to coworkers, feel free to stop by my office and offer affection to my seeing eye dog while s/he is laying at my feet and I am working at my desk/computer etc. The dogs are not robots. They love people and affection like any dog does and it would be cruel to deny them any attention outside of the handler’s attention just because they also have a job.

For the record I am also a former prosecutor who worked with cops who had K9 partners and I’ve petted those dogs, too!

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Anonymous wrote:The typical "faking a service dog" type behavior.

You're fooling NO ONE. I'd say most people have experience in knowing someone with a real service dog so they know how a real service animal will behave.

A dog pulling its way through Target is not a real service animal. A dog begging at a table in a restaurant is not a real service animal. A dog who wags its tail at every person walking down the airplane aisle is not a real service animal.

Working service dogs do not get distracted. They do not beg for food. They do not pull on their leash unless they are attempting to get help.

+1 I was in safeway a few months ago. A man and his dog were in line. There was an endcap right next to them; the dog took a step toward the endcap and sniffed the items on the bottom shell. A real service dog stays very close to the owner, with total attention on the owner. They do not even take one step away, let alone sniff stuff.

That's just not true. Service dogs are not robots. I've worked with blind people who had seeing eye dogs that accompanied them to work and conferences etc. and those dogs do sniff things that smell especially stimulating, like food. They do step more than a step away from their person. They do wag their tails and accept affection when offered. They are not robots.

Not when they are working, they don't. My friend has a cane corso that she's trained to be her service dog. When she's in a grocery store, her dog doesn't leave her side. He doesn't sniff anything or anyone. He has his full attention on her. When he's "off" he sniffs and is a very friendly and regular dog. But that's her diligent training. She can't have her very large cane corso approaching people, and she certainly has him trained not to sniff around the grocery store or any time that he's working.

Sorry, but you are full of excrement. Did I not say that I WORKED with people who had seeing eye dogs? THE DOGS WERE WORKING, after professional training at The Seeing Eye, and they sniffed, wagged their tails, accepted pats from coworkers.

I doubt your story is even true, and if it is, it's disturbing. A cane corso as a service dog? Those dogs are lethal. Sounds like your friend has a potentially lethal weapon as her ESA that she calls a service dog.

"Self trained" corso or pit. They're the truck nutz of service dogs.

Exactly. Those are fighting dogs bred for thousands of doggy generations to be impervious to pain and killing machines. A cane corso as a ‘service’ dog is a sick joke. And most true service dogs are NOT self trained, ESAs are self trained.

As another poster pointed out, the service dog foundations use retrievers and shepherds and poodles because they are among the most intelligent and most reliable temperamentally, thus most effectively trained.

And for the poster who asked - the seeing eye goldens and shepherds I worked with because I had blind coworkers accepted affection after I was invited to give it by their owners/handlers.

I think people are confused because while it is true that service dogs shouldn’t be approached when they are in training and/or working without permission of the handler, once a service dog is trained well and the training is locked in, it is well within the acceptable parameters for the handler to say to coworkers, feel free to stop by my office and offer affection to my seeing eye dog while s/he is laying at my feet and I am working at my desk/computer etc. The dogs are not robots. They love people and affection like any dog does and it would be cruel to deny them any attention outside of the handler’s attention just because they also have a job.

For the record I am also a former prosecutor who worked with cops who had K9 partners and I’ve petted those dogs, too!

The ADA does not require them to be professionally trianed to qualify as a service dog. Of course most people are not up for that task. It takes tons of work and dedication.