SERVICE DOG PSA

So today I tripped. Fell flat on my face, it was awful but ultimately harmless. My service dog, however, is trained to go get an adult if I have a seizure, and he assumed this was a seizure (were training him to do more to care for me, but we didn’t learn I had epilepsy until a year after we got him)

I went after him after I had dusten off my jeans and my ego, and I found him trying to get the attention of a very annoyed woman. She was swatting him away and telling him to go away. So I feel like I need to make this heads up

If a service dog without a person approaches you, it means the person is down and in need of help

Don’t get scared, don’t get annoyed, follow the dog! If it had been an emergency situation, I could have vomited and choked, I could have hit my head, I could have had so many things happen to me. We’re going to update his training so if the first person doesn’t cooperate, he moves on, but seriously guys. If what’s-his-face could understand that lassie wanted him to go to the well, you can figure out that a dog in a vest proclaiming it a service dog wants you to follow him

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  • dohpaz42@lemmy.worldEnglish
    18·
    3 days ago

    It’s a shame they don’t put as much effort into educating the public on important things like this.

    • IninewCrow@lemmy.caEnglish
      9·
      3 days ago

      Yeah … instead of important even life saving information, we’re fed a steady stream of absolute nonsense and even information that is the opposite of a PSA.

      • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
        2·
        2 days ago

        Least you didn’t get traumatized by the ghost kid PSA we got about road safety.

        They literally had this whole story about a kid who’d been run over crossing the road and he’s now basically a ghost wandering around being sad about it. I think there was a train one as well.