Everybody Loves a Service Dog
Pretty much everyone
loves dogs. It is a fact that very few
people can resist the face of a cute puppy when seen on the street. Now, we believe this cuteness factor is
heightened when this dog is a service dog.
1) It’s cute 2) It has an outfit 3) It has a job 4) It can wear cute
things like hats or shoes (in addition to the vest) People stare and whisper constantly about how
cute Secret Agent Puppy is. Let’s be
real, he kinda has a fan club on campus.
Our class (and professors) gets excited over the simplest things such as
him wearing a raincoat, or him wearing a holiday themed bandana. We aren’t trying to say that he isn’t cute,
what we are saying is that it is unbelievable how many people fall in love with
this dog even if they have never met him.
People on campus LOVE
him and when we say love, we mean LOVE.
The grumpiest of professors smile brightly when they see him walk into
class. They get even more excited when
they get to see him perform a task, or get to pet him. Some professors have practically adopted
him. He has acted as a TA, following the
professor around the room or sitting next to their podiums during breaks. Secret Agent Puppy knows that he is adorable
and milks that for all it’s worth.
Professors who don’t know who he, or Nemo are, stop and stare when they
pass by on campus. Also, it’s not like
he is hiding, he is on campus for class 4 days a week and stays most
weekends.
Classmates become
overjoyed when they see him walk into the room.
No one cares when Nemo arrives to class.
They see the dog and get excited.
They know that they can’t say hi, distract him, but you still see their
faces light up when he enters a room.
When ever he does something cute there are multiple “awwws” heard in the
room. Whenever he is dressed up, the
phones come out and he is featured on multiple snapchats and instagrams. If we are being honest, he is probably on
more than we realize since people have taken his picture without Nemo’s
knowledge or consent. He is being
featured almost everywhere possible. In
every class picture displaying a successful lab activity, or school
activity. When he isn’t immediately put
into the front of a picture, people start to go “where’s the dog.” They see him as a fellow classmate and
strongly believe that he earns his spot in cohort pictures.
Workers in the dining
hall are constantly confused when they see a dog walk in. Almost every worker there has stopped what
they were doing to watch Secret Agent Puppy pass by, or they have randomly
walked past the table our group is sitting at.
They aren’t exactly discrete as they lean over counters or stop cleaning
a table top to watch him turn the corner.
They all have faces that screams “look at that cute dog.”
People in the community
get simultaneously excited and confused when they see Secret Agent Puppy
walking around. They 1) are confused why
they can’t take their dog around into various establishments and 2) wondering
why he is so cute. People have wandered
up to the two of us and questioned if he has a right to be there. There is almost always the chorus of “Look at
the blind girl” and “He is so cute.”
Simply put, Nemo is just what Secret Agent Puppy is attached to. She isn’t seen as a real person, just the
person who brings in the dog.
Now, we get to the part
that we can’t get over. Secret Agent
Puppy is frequently featured on our twitter.
Being full time college students makes it difficult for us to handle
school, clinicals, medical, the blog and our personal lives. This means that sometimes we do not get to
post on social media as much as we would like to. However, we decided that we needed to include
one picture on twitter, because we thought it was adorable (and still do). We frequently study to Disney music since we
are 5 year olds at heart. The song
“Reflection” from Mulan came on and we both witnessed something that we had
never seen Secret Agent Puppy do. He
laid down, put his head against the laptop and started falling asleep cuddling
with the laptop. Naturally, we tested
this multiple times and the phenomenon happened again and again. He would go from bouncing off the walls to
curled up cuddling with the laptop. So
we took a picture and posted it to twitter.
Tremors then decided to tag the voice of Mulan (Nemo’s idol) in the
tweet. A few hours later while we were
completing homework we both received a notification that proves how much people
love service dogs (at least in our minds).
The voice of Mulan liked our tweet, so naturally after we stopped
freaking out, we knew that no matter who they are, no one can resist the
cuteness of a service dog.
Simply put, people love
dogs. They bring many people joy and
seeing a dog with a job brings any more.
No matter where he goes he always makes friends and goes on an
adventure. Service dogs bring more than
there their owner’s joy, they bring joy to everyone they meet.
WE BELIEVE IN
YOU!
-NEMO, TREMORS AND
SECRET AGENT PUPPY
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