Prep your Service Dog for Theme Parks

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Welcome to Service Dog success.

This is Victoria and with me are Tara hey and Bridget.

Hello, we are on our way to SeaWorld.

We're bringing a client and meeting up with a couple more, and it's pretty neat.

So we figured we'd talk to you about how to prep your dog for SeaWorld or any theme park or amusement park.

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Fair, county thing, festivals, festivals, all of them.

So what do you need to do it?

Well, first, for service dogs and service dogs and training only if your dog is a pet dog.

Stop bringing your pet dogs to places where they don't belong because they're not prepped for it, because it's annoying.

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Don't do it.

Yeah, don't do it.

Make it that simple.

Second, if this is your dog's first outing, chances are going to be that they're not going to be set up for success if their first outing is amusement parks.

Now, there are ways you can do it right.

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However, when you go to a park like this, a theme park with your service dog, service dog in training of any age, it is about them.

OK?

So if they're not having a good time, if they're overwhelmed or whatever else, you have to leave.

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I don't care if you plan on being there the whole day.

I don't care if this is the one ticket time that you got tickets and you want to really go and you want to enjoy and you want to be there from open to close with your dog, it is up to your dog.

So if your dog is done, so are you, which is why we're doing comments.

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Go home and she's following behind us in her car.

And then if she wants to stay longer or if she wants to leave earlier, she can't.

But she's not tied down to our schedule just because, you know, because we all rode together because that wouldn't be as much fun.

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But it's up to the dogs.

We've gone to SeaWorld before and it was actually traffic was so horrendous, it was not moving.

So we stopped and we had breakfast at a restaurant there and watched the traffic not move and decided that instead of trying to do that with the dogs because if it was that busy, it was going to be super busy inside.

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Instead, we went to the mall with them and the dogs did super.

So sometimes you have to change your plans right away.

You have to pivot and it's something that you have to be prepared for having a service dog or a service dog in training.

Next up is, how's he not going to do there?

2:24

Yeah.

How are they going to do there?

Well, how was your dog doing normally?

How's your dog doing at normal places that you've gone to with your dog?

Like stores?

Right, Like the city parks.

Have you got there?

How's your dog around a bunch of screaming people?

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How's your dog around chaos?

I don't know.

Well, like, maybe we just try to introduce you to some chaos.

Maybe we walk by the school during recess.

Yeah.

Or there's a bus that drops off kids a block from the house.

Maybe we go over there and we get the dog out and we work the dog, you know, and see how the dog does with that chaos going on.

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What about football games on Friday Night Football?

Games on Friday night?

Or go to your local truck stop and sit in your car with your windows down with your dog.

Air brakes resemble an amusement park ride, right?

Right when they come to a stop.

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So like, can you set them up in all different ways regardless?

Yes, Yes, you can.

But like, we're going today.

Everyone that's going right now today has been to SeaWorld.

Except Arlo, who I have.

3:33

That's Panini's brother.

He's going to be two.

Is he going to go to SeaWorld probably 100 times in the next 5 years?

Probably not.

But I want him to be exposed to that because what is the chances that they might go to an amusement park, to a fair, to a farmers market, to something else later on down the line?

3:58

And he needs to be ready for it, right?

Well, how you going to get him ready for it?

Well, we've done different things.

He's been with me for about a week and a half now.

We've done, you know, the fall festival, the sheriff's night out, which was a little overwhelming for him until when when he met up with other dogs.

4:17

All right, So taking the three dogs that are comfortable going and having him who is not sure we can expose him in a good way, right?

So he can follow suit, right?

Follow Burke, follow Panini, follow comment.

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Let's go.

They're perfectly fine.

Everything's good, right?

So if they show and I show him that everything is good.

So what did I do?

Packed high value treats.

We all have high value treats in our pouches right now.

What does that it consists of?

Not kibble, I can tell you that.

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So we have beef, freeze dried, beef livers, we've got Vital essentials, and we've also got Happy Howie's.

Sometimes I'll even throw a hot dog in my vouch debating on where I'm going and if I want to smell like a hot dog all day.

So.

The hot dog in your pouch, right, exactly.

5:08

So but why high value treats?

Because it's going to be something for him that could possibly be maybe over stimulating.

But if I have a high value reward for the over stimulation, it's going to pay off, right?

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He's going to be like, oh, so it's OK to be like this and we can walk through this and there goes a roller coaster, there goes a sea lion, whatever it is, you know what I mean?

The noise is the sounds.

However it is I can pay him out with high value.

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And we're going to utilize everything, right.

We're going to utilize Loring as we need to.

Yeah, we're going to utilize capturing behavior.

So if he does, you know, look at something we can mark and then he comes looks back to us for their reward because we also did not feed them breakfast.

5:54

No, we can do name game, you know, like, oh, that's Grover because of the Sesame Street area.

Oh, oh, that's a shark.

This is a moving walkway.

We.

Can get to just one spot and sit there for a couple of minutes and let him be exposed to it before we start walking through the park.

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Like am I going to walk in and say he's doing great?

You know, we can continue walking, but say we get in there and he's a little overwhelmed.

Well, what can I do?

I can sit there again and do name game with everything.

Have him do to look at a game, right?

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Be exposed to it and then we can start to move on.

But I'm also not going to sit there and be like, Oh no, we're going, we're going and just keep pulling him through everything either, right?

Because that's where you end up failing.

And we don't want him to fail.

We want him to be successful.

6:44

We want the whole trip to be successful.

Yes, you know, so if that means like what would we like to do today at Sea World?

Well, we don't do roller coasters.

So over in the Sesame Street area there are some rides we can go.

And we did the carousel last time and I sat on a bench.

It was so much fun.

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You know, they were going to bring the wheelchair on and I said I I can get up and walk those three steps in.

So we had what four of us, two on one bench, 2 on the other bench.

Then we had a fifth person who rode on one of the horses then they were so cute.

So if you're not has a great down statement in the beginning, start with that.

Start with something super easy.

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You know, we met characters last time, so I wouldn't mind doing that again.

We did the shark tunnel, seals and sea lions.

They actually have a seal, sea lion and Waller show that that would be fun to do.

A couple times ago I saw the orca show like that was fun.

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There's a little hidey hole spot that we know of where we can go see orcas sometimes.

And the orcas love seeing the dogs, the dolphin nursery, they love seeing the dogs.

So I try to do that because I think the dogs like seeing them and I know they like seeing the dogs.

So and the shark tunnel is so much fun.

Shark Tunnel is fun because not only is it a shark tunnel, but it's also a moving walkway.

7:53

Yeah, right.

So, well, my dog's never been on a moving walkway.

Oh well, there's your prime opportunity because once you get in there, you just basically get in and you continue to still walk.

Just because the sidewalk is moving does not mean that you stay stationary.

Yeah, so it's different for the dogs, like Universal City Walk also has moving walkway.

8:13

Some airports have them.

So if we can introduce them wherever, then it makes it easier.

Yeah, vests.

We have vests for the dogs, we have Leech wraps for the dogs, and one of the dogs even has a Unicorn costume and.

We have water bottles.

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We have the water bowls.

Yes, you know, we have booties.

Is it a booty day?

Nope.

No, it's. 569. 569 today.

So are we going to need booties?

Probably not.

Are we during the day going to take our shoe off and feel the ground to make sure that we don't need booties?

8:47

Yes, we are, because why?

I don't want my dog's sheep to get burned.

And so on and so forth.

Because that's again sets up for failure.

And so here's one for people who traveled to Disney, to Florida, to California, you know, Universal, SeaWorld, wherever, if they're traveling on vacation.

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So you're not from Florida, you don't understand how hot it gets in Florida.

And you come with your dog and you don't bring booties because you don't use booties at home.

You live who knows where.

You still need booties here.

Well, I'm going to bring Mosher's secret.

Great.

You know what?

That's made out of wax.

Yeah.

So while that might be OK for the trip across the parking lot.

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It's not going to be OK to walk through the park.

All day.

Yeah, you're don't do it.

Just stop it.

Well, it works at home.

Yeah, well, you live up where it's called AF.

And if you do live where it is called AF, guess what?

Start practicing.

Because if it is called AF, you should have booties on your dogs when your dogs are walking in the winter time.

9:40

Yeah, because of salt.

It'll eat the bottom of the dog's.

Pads and then they lick it and then that hurts their diet and then people are like, I don't know why my dogs having tummy issues.

So like, there's, you know, damned if you do, damned if you don't.

But get your dog exposed to booties.

If not booties, toddler socks.

9:56

Yeah, yeah.

Toddler socks are really cute on the dogs, especially once you get the little colored fun.

Ones right So it is and it's useful for different things.

One of the dogs cut her paw pat and we had to was we were bandaging up wrapping up.

We put on top their socks for her, yeah.

10:12

And not only that, but we also have a first aid kit.

Yeah.

You know, with us for the dogs, what a dog first aid kit, Yes, they do make them.

Because you have to make sure that you're prepared for things.

Now, one of the nice things with SeaWorld is they probably do have a vet on on staff.

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But guess what?

That's on staff.

If something happens to your service dog, are you going to be able to see that vet?

Possibly not.

And if so, if there were a dolphin vet, what the heck are they going to help you out with your dog for?

Right.

However, it's something I always keep in the back of my mind.

10:44

You know, Disney, Epcot, Animal Kingdom and Magic Kingdom all have animals.

Yeah.

So, you know, I believe they have a vet on staff in each of those parks, which is pretty cool.

Like if I was a vet, that's where I'd Walmart.

But but, you know, it's something.

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What else is You don't need?

The water, the food?

What equipment?

Don't start new equipment, vest or wherever else during something like this.

So we'll have the best for the dogs today, and one of my things I'm going to work on today is vesting him and then unvesting him.

11:22

But Tara, he needs to be labeled if he's a service dog.

No, he does not.

The ADA does not require your dog, just have a specific vest, leash, bandana, something on you at all.

11:41

Your dog could be Nikki Flur flying.

Say that again.

You know, without.

Where's this guy going?

I don't know where he thinks he's gone.

We're on the Turnpike and there's always crazy cars.

But like he does not have to have anything on.

11:57

No, he does not.

So we don't want the dogs to feel like they could only work and behave and listen because they have their vest on.

So we like them to be vested and we like them to not be vested.

So oftentimes, especially in the summer, I might forget to bring a vest for the dogs that I'm working.

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So how do we get around that?

By bringing the vest, working him in the vest, taking it off, working him naked, putting it back on, working him with the vest so he learns that it's it's not an issue.

That is not what makes them behave.

Yeah.

The vest guys, guess what the vest is for?

It's for people.

So they see it and they're like, oh, that's a service dog instead of us having to say all the time, you know, yeah, you're correct.

12:34

Dogs aren't allowed in here.

This one is a service dog.

Because if not, that's what you hear is I didn't know they had dogs in here, right?

Look, there's a dog.

We should go say hi.

Then he wants to say hi to me because I have a dog at home.

I think the worst thing that gets me is when we do have shoes on the dogs and they're like Oh my God look how cute their shoes are.

12:53

Who gives a shit about how cute a dog looks in shoes?

Stop distracting my dog.

My dog looks cute all the time.

You know, but it's a distraction.

It is, and it's ridiculous.

It's like go back to playing on your phone.

Yeah, go on your phone.

YouTube Dogs and shoes.

13:09

All right, so you can watch all the videos you want without distracting my dog.

To me, the most annoying is whenever I'm posing dogs or we're trying to get photos or we're just trying to live our life and people want to come over and take photos of us here.

It wants you to get off here because it says there's traffic up ahead.

13:24

That's really good.

So you're good.

So yeah, that that annoys me because you know what, if you want to see pictures of my awesome dogs, follow us on Instagram, YouTube, TikTok and Facebook, and you're going to see some amazing photos that are specially curated for awesomeness and not for, you know, like good enough.

13:46

What else do we need If you're going to do rides that your dogs cannot do in each park.

Well, I mean, I did the big theme parks.

I'm sure if you go to, you know, a County Fair, they're not going to have the list of these are rides that you should go on with or without your dog, right?

Probably none of those rides, but like none of those rides you should probably go on either.

14:05

Yeah, no.

Right.

So there's, for example, at SeaWorld, the Sesame Street area has a carousel.

Well it says that the dogs are a lot on there that also has a Choo Choo train.

It says the dogs are allowed on there.

However, when we went last time, the lady didn't know.

14:21

How to put us on?

Yeah, she's like, I talked to my manager and dogs aren't allowed on here and I'm thinking like I thought they were and so I looked afterwards and yes, they were.

I'm not going to argue like no, we got photos with the dogs by the train.

We would probably have to hold on to the dogs.

And those little seats were tiny.

14:38

They were tiny.

Yeah.

So we did not do that, but we did get photos as and one of them was that one that was like going up in the air like the Viking ship one.

Yeah, that one said it was OK for dogs.

I'm like how I'm.

Not no, no.

It's not OK for people.

Listen, Tara doesn't do rides, period.

14:54

So.

Right, you didn't even do the carousel.

No, I no, no.

You want me to throw up?

I don't throw up.

I love rides.

Not me, OK?

There's also we find hidey holes in every park that we go to.

15:10

We find some hidey holes.

So for example, at SeaWorld, there's a do you want to go to McDonald's?

OK, we go to SeaWorld.

She's like, do you want to go to?

McDonald's.

15:26

But he he know I love food.

There's a gift shop that I had found over kind of by the Orca stuff.

Yeah, that was so cold.

Whenever I went with Rhonda and Jimmy in August, it was so ice cold in there.

It felt so good.

So I'm like, OK, if I don't feel good and I can get over there, that's where I want to go and lie down on the ground there.

15:44

Yeah, You know, we're also by the ones over by the Penguin.

And that was not ice cold.

That was by the Penguins.

Penguins are there too, and it's usually really cold.

Last time, whenever I went with them, the line to see the Penguins was so long.

Yeah, that's when I think Bridget was with us.

16:00

OK.

At that time, it's been a long time.

When?

Yeah, we didn't go to the Penguins, did we?

No, we did not.

So yeah.

Colonel Orca all.

The good stuff, Dolphin.

16:17

In Sesame Street.

See, Sesame Street to me is like the ideal place for the dogs.

Yeah.

It's so much fun.

There's a lot going on over there.

There's a bunch of kids over there, you know?

Parades, little dance parties, the.

Parade is like the cutest thing and the Oh my gosh.

16:34

And the characters absolutely love the dogs.

Yes.

Absolutely love the dogs.

Like I think we took out, what was it Zoe and Grover or whatever, when they, when they had their meet and greet thing, I think we took up their whole 30 minutes, Right.

But it wasn't us that took up their 30 minutes.

16:51

It was the characters that took up their own 30 minutes and just spent it with us with the dogs.

Yeah.

We also walked in there with what, 7 dogs?

Yeah.

So it's a little hard to not take up that much time, right.

You know, and then you get people that are like, ah, they're hanging out with dogs and well, too bad, too bad.

17:11

I paid for my ticket.

And if I paid for my ticket, I get to spend time with Zoe and Grover, right?

Too bad, it's my prerogative, right Arlo?

Arlo says yes.

But you have to be ready to leave or get your dog to an easier area.

17:27

Whenever we do have meals at the park, right?

It gives the dogs a chance to rest.

Yeah.

We'll also do a few times where we just sit.

We don't, we're not constantly moving, going, going, going.

We have just sit, chill out and relax times also.

And those enable the dogs to have some some rest time also.

17:47

So you need to account for that.

They're not gonna go, go, go, even if you want to.

Yeah, no.

And it's good when we do like you said for the food or we just go in and just sit even with just a drink.

Yeah, right.

To sit down and again, give the dogs that little bit of a break.

18:03

Well, I'm here to see everything and so on and so forth.

Well, if that I.

Paid for my ticket, I'm gonna be there from sunup to sundown.

And if that's the case, then you should have left your dog home.

Yep, Yep.

That's usually our first recommendation and people like that.

You take the dogs to the parks at 8 weeks old?

Yes, we do.

In a stroller and we're not there the whole day.

And if we need to leave after 20 minutes, we can leave after 20 minutes.

18:21

We've gotten to SeaWorld and have gotten to walking in through the gate and we have turned around and went home.

Why?

We have season passes and we're able to do that.

And again, it's about the dog.

It's not about what you were going there to see.

18:39

Yeah, you know, like, do we want to spend half the day there, all the day there, whatever.

I think we've spent at most, what, 6 hours at the park, which is a long day.

Well, we didn't really do much.

We only saw this, and we only saw that it's still a long day.

I don't care how you look at it.

18:55

Yeah.

I need a nap after it.

We'll put it that.

Way right?

It's a long day and if it's a long day for me, it's a long day for the dogs.

You know, my place is right down there.

It's about maybe 10 minutes.

Yeah, maybe 10 minutes all.

So yeah, we, we need to put the dogs first.

19:12

So if you're coming down here for vacation and you wanna go and you wanna spend the whole day out and about and having fun, leave your dog at home or I believe Disney's pet care is open.

You have Disney's pet care and also at SeaWorld they do have a pet portal.

19:31

Oh yeah.

Tell me about that, Tara.

Oh yes, so last time we came, that was when we had about 7 dogs.

We did bring one of the eight week old puppies with us.

Now she's our keeper girl right?

So not a client dog, she's a hope dog.

We had a stroller.

19:48

She was vested in her stroller with her little in training service dog vest.

Oh, that little Spitfire.

Like I adore this dog.

She wanted to walk.

She did not want to ride.

Yeah, she did not want to ride and when she did ride we had to have the stroller open so she could see everything.

She was very nosy, which is great.

20:05

Long story short, we get to walking in through security and I see stroller and wheelchair entrance.

So I start to proceed to the stroller and wheelchair entrance.

Because she had a stroller.

Because I had a stroller.

I get there and the guy says to me, ma'am, you need to go over to pet services.

20:26

So I'm thinking I have to go over to the other entrance, right?

I'm, I don't have to go through the stroller entrance because it's a dog stroller.

It's smaller than a kid stroller, right?

Get over there.

And the guy proceeds to come over and says, well, ma'am, I told you, you need to go to pet services because that's a puppy.

20:44

Oh yeah, good eye there.

Good job, Charlotte.

Right, You are a pet detective now.

That's definitely a puppy, but it's also a puppy going to SeaWorld for exposure training, to be exposed to the parks, right?

21:04

To be exposed to people, to be exposed to sounds, smells, the noise, everything that was in there.

Well, that's not a service dog, he says.

I'm like, you again are a freaking pet detective because you're right, she's not a service dog, but she is a service dog in training.

21:25

At this time, my face is so red that I looked like a cherry tomato because now you're pissing me off, right?

Is that a service dog?

Yes, in training.

Well, what does she do for you right now?

She's being exposed to, she's in the elements, she's in training.

21:45

What is she going to be trained for?

Well, medical response and recovery or alert, right?

We don't know what she's going to be trained for, but we're exposing her to new things.

And she's got a very good oops retrieve at 8 weeks old.

And she tests the greatest little tiny DPT.

22:03

So she does have two tests that she knows and is proficient.

She's pretty proficient with them, right?

So, yeah, so she does have two tests that she's good at.

Again, she's in training.

Whoa.

I guess you can go through.

22:20

And the guy behind him is looking at my face and he's like, no, no, she's fine.

She can go through.

They're the trainers that come here all the time.

Imagine that.

Because we're not here at least once, if not twice a month with the same group of people.

Yeah.

22:36

Usually like our staff and then we have clients that meet up with us.

Yeah.

And most of the time when we come with our clients and with the dogs, our dogs are pretty damn well behaved.

OK, so it's the other people.

Like when we were in there, the lady with the doodle in a harness and her nine year old was walking said dog.

22:58

Or should I say the dog was walking the 9 year old.

And oh, I've ever seen dogs at Sea World before.

Well, I've seen dogs at Sea World before.

And your dog is far from being a service dog.

Cheap Amazon vests which was not even attached let.

23:16

Me know what it was was I'm letting my daughter do it.

It's my service dog, but I'm letting my daughter walk.

I'm.

Well then your dog should be walking.

Your dog should not be skiing your child.

Yeah, you know, and your dog should not be coming up to my dog to say hello because I don't trust anybody and I do not allow that with any of my dogs.

23:35

So we actually had one Tara, we are at when we've done some of the big schools, you know, we've done it where afterwards we'll go to Universal or we'll go to Disney or we'll do something as a group like what we did last year.

Yeah, after the workshop.

Yeah, it is an old VW bus.

23:52

So we we're at Universal.

There's a whole group of, I think about 15 of us and we all split, you know, so like a couple were here, a couple were there, and there's a black dog who is barking and lunching at us.

And then as we're meeting up with some of the other people in our group, Yep, the black dog was also barking and lunching at them.

24:11

OK, so and Yep, talk to another group.

Yep, the black dog was barking and lunching at them also.

So I see somebody who works at Universal and I said, hey, just as a heads up, because Universal always asks, as we add, are there 2 questions that they're allowed to ask?

And I always encourage them to ask that is that a service track required because of a disability?

24:30

What task or work because a dog been trained to perform right.

So I said, hey, as a heads up, there is a black dog wearing this type of vest, you know, and it is barking and lunching going after all, you know, like a bunch of the dogs that we have with us.

Oh, well, there's nothing I could do about it.

24:49

I said, OK, well, you can report it to your higher ups and let them know because if that dog attacks any of our dogs, I'm holding the park not liable because you know it.

Yeah.

Yeah, and yes, there is something they can do.

They can ask the people to remove their dog from the park.

25:08

Yeah.

But the people can stay.

Yeah.

Right.

So it's not.

Oh well, they kicked us.

Out because I I have a disability because they kicked your dog.

Out because your dog's a jerk.

Right, right.

They kicked your dog out and that's where bringing your dog that is not ready for that kind of place and environment is where I would have left that dog home.

25:31

Yes, it's just so much easier.

Or if you're going to be here for three days, you know, like have your dog come to the park with you for a couple hours on one of the days and the rest of the time not.

Yeah, like, so your dog being your service doctor.

Service Doctor.

Disney has a pet camp or something like that where you can board your dog for the day or for two days, whatever it is.

25:54

Well, there's there's boarding places, there's, you know, pet paradise, there's smaller independent boarding places that I, I wouldn't say good with Rover, but you know, like there's things that can be done.

Or if you're going and you have a family member who's staying back at the hotel, Oh, leave your dog.

26:09

Home.

Yeah, yeah, that'd be perfect.

You know, but make sure what you're doing, you're doing it to be successful for the dog.

So here's something that we haven't mentioned on the pod yet.

We went to the Bushnell County, Florida Sheriff's night out a couple weeks ago and we had a bunch of us there.

26:30

We had a booth set up.

It was super fun.

But there was some canines K9 officer handlers that have the big K9 on the back of the shirt with a Bloodhound and it looked like a younger Bloodhound maybe about a year ish.

Not even.

And the dog was way over threshold was so done.

26:46

And the hammer was so mean to that dog like we were.

I was trying to get some video because this is something like, yeah, you can't accuse without proof type of thing.

But he's hauling off and whacking the dog.

You know, he's pulling the dog every which way.

27:02

And the dog was not ready for that.

So stop being a Dick.

Stop taking your dogs out to where they're not ready for it.

Build them up so they are ready for it, because guess what's going to happen?

Yeah, that dog might associate all the people.

And everything like.

That all the kids, all the the crowds with getting beat on, he might associate that location and not do well with that.

27:25

He might turn on his hand and bite him.

I would have.

I would have, oh, you're lucky I didn't get up and say something.

The only reason I did is because he had a big gun, right?

And he had handcuffs and I didn't want to go to jail because I was going to give him a piece of my mind.

Right.

Well, he came over and looked at us and I was like, what?

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Because I was in my chair, I was not feeling good.

I just got passed out.

So I'm like, I'm here, but I'm not moving.

And, you know, but he came over and he was looking at our booth and everything else.

I'm like, can I help you?

Yeah, but no.

But it was frustrating.

And like, we've seen it before.

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We've seen it in the different parks.

We've seen dogs without booties bring booties.

Stop it.

You need to bring booties for your dog.

It is too hot.

Even like we have booties in the car here.

We have them in my backup backpack, right?

28:13

So I have them there and we can get them out, put them on the dog if if needed, even though it's not going to be hot today.

So you have to be prepared.

Yeah, and be prepared for your dog.

28:30

Yeah, yeah.

Not just you.

It's your dog.

Your dog.

That's your priority.

Yeah, cleanup kits are key.

Cleanup kits are so cute.

Oh gosh, you can't even see people coming around that.

Corner.

No, you cannot.

All right.

We're going to go in the middle because I don't know where we're going.

Oh, you go one mile and then you get off.

28:47

OK, well we're going to get up here and hopefully she knows how to file in.

Right.

So how can you set you and your dog up for success for fares, for amusement parks, for theme parks, for zoos, for anything?

29:03

How can you set your dog up for success?

Bridget, do you have anything to add?

Because you just did your first part last month when we went, right?

Was that your first part?

Yeah, that was my first part with the dogs, yeah.

OK, I would.

Have to say, if you're going to take your dog somewhere and you think that they're not prepared, they're probably not prepared.

29:24

Oh, that's good, yeah.

OK, if you think your dog is going to misbehave, don't take your dog, OK?

Take them to a more appropriate place that you think they might misbehave at but are ready for, and then you explain what is going on to your dog.

29:43

Name game is awesome.

Like it's helped so much with just the dogs I have at home now good as well.

Like I can I have a dog that is aggressive to other dogs and she has now become OK with being around like random dogs and I'm like yay.

30:06

Finally there lady.

Oh, she falls up there man, if.

But I wouldn't have put her in any situation that I didn't think that she would take care of.

So if you are putting your dog in a situation that they're not going to do well in, just don't.

30:23

Yeah, just don't.

Like I don't think the Goldendoodle should have been there.

Oh God, yeah.

Last time the one who's water boarding the kid.

Yeah, yeah.

I don't think that that dog should have been there.

30:39

No, I agree with you.

And second of all, the girl shouldn't have been walking the dog.

That's another thing too, If you have a service dog and it is your service dog, someone else should not be walking your service dog.

They can hold your service dog while you run to the bathroom.

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Or if you're going to run into possibly a gift shop that's really, really crowded and you know it's going to be too much for the dog, yeah, have someone hold your dog for you.

But don't let someone walk your service dog and expect your service dog to work for them, especially if you're having an off day.

31:18

All right, that's how I look at it.

Well, if, if it's happening right, if you are like, well, I want the kid to handle the dog a little bit more.

Maybe it's not my SeaWorld, right?

31:35

Have make sure that the kid can control the dog.

You know the kid tripping after the dog because the dog's pulling so bad it's not trained?

No, it's about peeve.

Knock it off.

Yeah.

And that comes down to where you say make sure the dog, the kid can control the dog, make sure the dog is under control.

31:52

Yeah.

You know, because that dog was far from under control, I can tell you that.

Yeah, I tell you what, I'll.

Tell you what.

OK, so we are still 1/2 hour out, but I think that this conversation is wrapping up.

32:08

How far are we?

Oh, 32 minutes.

Yay.

So yeah, so we good.

We're going to hang up for this one and we'll talk to you next time.

In the meantime, we have a whole bunch of back episodes of Service Dog Success.

We're up on TikTok and YouTube and Instagram and Facebook and you can follow us on any of those 4 platforms and our podcast.

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And we have an online course servicedog.teachable.com.

That's pretty awesome and let me know what questions you have so we know what you don't want us to answer, but we will talk to you later.

Bye, Happy.

Tails.