See this gorgeous waterfall? I took my daughter and her service dog on a nice hike up to it recently. It was raining a little bit, and the trail was muddy, there were leaves all over the place, and it was glorious! The river is swollen from all the recent rain, and the falls are crashing and beautiful. We were having a really good time.
Then some random stranger on the trail decided to start giving unsolicited advice about how to train the dog. Wait, what?! First she asked if he was in training (this happens every time we go out). My daughter told her that no, he’s her dog and is working. Then the stranger starts in on some rant about her friend who lives in New York and is blind, and she’s getting her fourth dog, but she fell down the stairs, and if we don’t want our dog to go after random things we should teach him some obscure Russian word, so he doesn’t run off into the bushes. Okay, crazy, gotta go now.
Seriously. Every single time. Can’t we just have a nice hike in the middle of a random forest trail without some weirdo telling us how to work with our dog? I’m getting tired of being polite, and one of these days I’m going to blow and just tell some idiot to go away and leave us alone.:/
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