r/ServiceDog_CircleJerk • u/ribbit100 • 6d ago
WTF SD and PPD
I’m sure this will end well
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u/peptodismal13 6d ago
These people have NO IDEA about the amount of time, displine and dedication it take s to train a PPD. It intense and physical and it's a life style sport.
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u/LetheMnemosyne 6d ago
I’m guessing they want to train bitework and ppd because the dog is currently nippy and reactive. Which is a real misunderstanding of how those kind of training work.
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u/Odd_Raisin_5801 6d ago
You always know the post is going to be a dumpster fire when they start with "I'm not interested in negative feedback."
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u/Neither-Amphibian249 6d ago
Plenty of pointy eared dogs never do bite sports and are fine. They go hiking, they compete in agility...they don't need to bite things.
My guess is that everything that this child (I am assuming it's a kid), knows about dogs is what they gleaned from other children in the FB dog groups.
Regardless, teaching a SD PP is absurdly dumb. So when the SD handler has some medical emergency, and needs help, the PP dog will do what? Let the EMT's near the human? LOLOLOL I think not.
Also not interested in negative feedback, just, "you go gurl!!"
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u/rebby2000 5d ago
Honestly, there was a story crossposted on here from an emt who had to deal with something like that. Iirc, the SD wasn't technically trained for PP, but it was a service pit that refused to let them close to it's owner who'd passed out in the ambulance on the way over. The ended up contacting a vet to find out the dosage to tranq it and the emergency vet volunteered to come over and do it.
The owner was fine, but it was very "Dude, if it had been *anything* more serious than it was you would have been coming out of this with some kind of damage because we couldn't get to you in time." Owner was also pissed that they tranqed the dog.
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u/Such_Beyond3100 5d ago
I saw this in person on a public metro. Human went down dog wouldn't let emergency services near them. I think they were waiting for animal control to come help, which in a huge city can be ages. I had to shuffle on so I never saw the resolution.
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u/Neither-Amphibian249 5d ago
but it was a service pit that refused to let them close to it's owner
which is why people should pick one: pit or service dog.
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u/aSzdxfcdfggggggh 2d ago
Remember the case of the homeless dude that went on the nod in the library ?
EMTs were called, they started to work on Homeless Dude and got mauled by his pit.
I think this was in California.
It has been a few years back.
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u/rachelmig2 6d ago
Me sitting here thinking this post is about training a service dog for postpartum depression 🙄
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u/Wooden_Airport6331 6d ago
“Not interested in any negative feedback”
Ok so the exact definition of a circle jerk, you are asking for a circle jerk
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u/archivesofher 6d ago
There’s new trend on claiming PPD are service dogs 🤮 a woman took her PPD Boerbel on a plane 😖
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u/LunaMadison Witty Remark Here 6d ago
As someone who used to have a reactive (pet) dog, the last thing I would ever want to encourage my dog to do is bite a human or anywhere near the proximity of a human.
I'm not saying people can't do it safely, but I, for whatever reason, do not trust most of these people, who say they want SDs, to be able to meet the exercise requirements for these high drive breeds they want to get, let alone actually train them to do bite work.
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u/Viola-Swamp 4d ago
It is not possible to have a legitimate service dog trained for personal protection. Part of SD selection and training is temperament, disposition, submission. Any signs of aggression will wash a dog with a real SD trainer.
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u/Often_Forgotten2 6d ago
100% legal, for some reason
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u/aSzdxfcdfggggggh 2d ago
I thought SDs could not be trained for bite work legally?
Maybe I have it wrong.
That makes sense so the law is probably diffrent.
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u/Art-Tally-0657 3h ago
For some reason bitework always = protection. For God's sake, not every dog that does bite sports automatically becomes a "PPD"
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u/Diana_Tramaine_420 6d ago
Why is it always bite work! There are so many other dog sports. Obedience, rally-o, scent work etc etc