A couple of years ago, Believer1 embedded a short video here from the Norwegian Association for the Blind. It was hilarious, as is this video, produced around the same time, making it clear why people shouldn’t bother service dogs while they’re on the job:
The Believer’s service dog is an important part of our family; when the three of us are out on the town, people sometimes ask me when it’s appropriate to pet him. I tell them, first, that the key thing is to ask her permission before paying any attention to her dog. I then compare him to a dentist. If a dentist was drilling your teeth, you wouldn’t want someone to wander into the room and start rubbing your dentist’s head and shoulders, exclaiming “What a good dentist!” If you can understand why it would be wrong to do that, you should be able to understand why it is wrong to interrupt a service dog on the job.
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