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Service dogs are well-mannered canines that have received specialized training. They put their full attention and effort into assisting their owners with medical issues, and their activities are life-saving.
They are mostly recognizable by their uniform, which makes it evident that they are service animals. They should not be distracted because they are on duty and might divert from defending their owners.
When she refused to let children pet her service dog, a Redditor who wrote in the r/aita section was seen as disrespectful. OP was generally fortunate enough to have people understand when she told them not to pet her service dog, Atom, but this time, things went south.
Some children asked to pet the service dog of the OP while they were at the bookstore. OP needed her assistance dog harder that day because she was already dealing with anxiety.
The kids’ mother had to explain to them that her dog was working and that they shouldn’t pet her before giving them the all-clear to pet her, but they held firm enough to follow OP to another aisle.
By this point, OP had been so stressed out that she had a full-blown anxiety attack, which led her to yell at the children to be quiet. As a result, the mother fled the area and yelled at the OP for forbidding her children from continuing to pet the service dog.
The mother and kids were asked to leave OP by the personnel as soon as they intervened. They did, but not before the mother made remarks on how the OP’s disability seemed.
Several customers told OP that she should’ve just let the kids give her dog pets which made her feel like she was the one in the wrong. OP mentioned that Atom was also wearing her assistance dog’s vest.
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It is quite obvious here that OP is not an A-hole. That mother and her kids need to understand that we have to respect everyone else preferences and boundaries. And when an owner says no you cannot pet my dog it simply means no, and you cannot argue that because you don’t own that animal.
As that mother was making comments about her disability right before leaving it was the moment that she is the A-hole we are looking for not the OP.
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