PSA because I have gotten this more and more as service dog awareness has gotten more and more in the past couple years.
I find this mostly to be a problem in like queer disabled spaces. I run into the problem of people, wanting to respect my service dog so much that they don’t really respect me..(?) like they’re visibly like walking on eggshells whenever they’re near me. No one sits next to me or talks to me. I think in an attempt to not “offend me” by distracting my dog when they don’t even know me.
I don’t know if this will go for all handlers, but it goes for everyone I’ve talked to. You will be fine around a service dog handler if you were not purposely trying to distract it. If you’re doing something just cause like fidgeting or somethingand the dog gets distracted that’s on the handler and the dogs training. It’s not your fault, and stop apologizing for it. It gets quite annoying after a while.
TLDR a treat service dog handlers like people and like the dog isn’t there. 
(to taste) only enough to know what you cannot have
I decided to quickly add some textures to a 3D "sketch" (I don't know what else to call it ) I started a few months ago as a test for a new potential figure idea
Fitting for the wolf moon and werewolf wednesday :)
Will's Bruno of Ever Ready, owned by Will's Police Dog Kennels, 1922
"No photo has ever given justice to a Dog, neither does these two photos show Will's Bruno of Ever Ready as I see him in front of me. Whelped May 25th, 1920. Stands 25 inches at shoulder, as sound as a dollar, as true as steel, as gentle as a lamb, knows no fear."
I need the assumption that most or every shelter/rescue dog was abused to stop
Unless you know for a fact that the dog was abused, don't go thinking it or making it how you think about them
Dogs can be noise sensitive
Dogs can be touch sensitive
Dogs can be movement sensitive
Dogs can be naturally fearful/anxious
They are dogs
And especially when you take in one who doesn't have the best genetics, they are just very prone to being sensitive
It's not a bad thing
It doesn't mean they were abused
It just means that they are more sensitive to certain things and need more help
Don't keep them from getting the help they need by putting a blanket statement over them that you don't even know is true
Throwback to when I took painkillers and woke up with Photoshop open on my computer to this image I had made
Bob Kuhn (1920-2007), Distant Sounds, 2006
David Lynch, “The Angriest Dog in the World”
Thinking about faking my own death and vanishing into the mountains ngl
Bilingual
Wren: Sickly human Riot Auf Der Marquis: SDIT Lachlan: Perfect boy (retired)
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