# I just left my service dog behind as I began to leave a flea market **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 15, 2014, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-left-my-service-dog-behind-as-i-began-to-leave-a-flea-market/704719 "2014-11-15T19:32:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![kayT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayt/32/3633_2.png) [@kayT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayT)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2014, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-left-my-service-dog-behind-as-i-began-to-leave-a-flea-market/704719/61 "2014-11-20T20:53:47Z")
Well, he apparently doesn’t wish to return to this thread and defend or explain his behavior. I believe we have been abandoned. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2014, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-left-my-service-dog-behind-as-i-began-to-leave-a-flea-market/704719/62 "2014-11-20T21:21:37Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > Sometimes you see Dopers interacting so normally that you forget this place doesn’t do well with basic stuff like sympathy or not kicking someone when they are down. > > It’s like the one time I almost posted here for advice on something interpersonal related. Luckily I came to my senses. Yeah really. We’re really, really sorry we were so rough on you for treating your service dog so shitty, **Leo**. It’s not like animal neglect is a crime or something. :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2014, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-left-my-service-dog-behind-as-i-began-to-leave-a-flea-market/704719/63 "2014-11-20T22:27:50Z")
Don’t some people have service dogs for anxiety and shit? His dog is a Boston terrier or something and I don’t think they would make very good guide dogs in general but I could be wrong. ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2014, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-left-my-service-dog-behind-as-i-began-to-leave-a-flea-market/704719/64 "2014-11-20T22:29:35Z")
> [@Ambivalid](#): > > Yeah, that’s what I’m wondering too. I’m sorta confused here… It’s like all those times you forget your wheelchair. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2014, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-left-my-service-dog-behind-as-i-began-to-leave-a-flea-market/704719/65 "2014-11-20T22:50:20Z")
He left his dog at the \*\*flea \*\*market. Was he itchy when the OP got home? 😃 I wouldn’t over think leaving anything behind. I’ve set my dinner on top of the car to unlock my door. Drove off with it up there. I’ve drove off leaving a sack of groceries on the ground. I’ve heard of people leaving a kid behind at the gas station. Stuff like that just happens. People get forgetful when they are concentrating on something else. ---
**Author:** ![Hello\_Again](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/85e7bf/32.png) [@Hello\_Again](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hello_Again)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2014, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-left-my-service-dog-behind-as-i-began-to-leave-a-flea-market/704719/66 "2014-11-20T23:40:12Z")
> [@GrandWino](#): > > Don’t some people have service dogs for anxiety and shit? His dog is a Boston terrier or something and I don’t think they would make very good guide dogs in general but I could be wrong. A comfort or anti-anxiety animal is not a service animal under the ADA. A service animal, by definition, is trained to do specific tasks. They could be tasks like guiding, holding/pulling, signalling phone calls or doorbells or alerting impending seizures. All kinds of tasks. The ADA specifically disavows the idea that a comfort animal which is not trained to any specific task is a service animal. ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2014, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-left-my-service-dog-behind-as-i-began-to-leave-a-flea-market/704719/67 "2014-11-21T01:46:03Z")
> [@GrandWino](#): > > It’s like all those times you forget your wheelchair. Ha!! It is! I feel fucking dumb when that happens. I just try to act like nothing happened tho. I play it cool. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![leftfield6](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leftfield6/32/18780_2.png) [@leftfield6](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leftfield6)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2014, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-left-my-service-dog-behind-as-i-began-to-leave-a-flea-market/704719/68 "2014-11-21T01:52:38Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > He left his dog at the \*\*flea \*\*market. Was he itchy when the OP got home? 😃 > > **I wouldn’t over think leaving anything behind.** I’ve set my dinner on top of the car to unlock my door. Drove off with it up there. I’ve drove off leaving a sack of groceries on the ground. I’ve heard of people leaving a kid behind at the gas station. Stuff like that just happens. People get forgetful when they are concentrating on something else. :smack: He left his fucking dog behind. Not a bag of oranges. For fucks sake. ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2014, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-left-my-service-dog-behind-as-i-began-to-leave-a-flea-market/704719/69 "2014-11-21T02:13:11Z")
I really wish the OP would come back and inform us as to why he requires a service dog. One that he requires yet is _able_ to forget. ---
**Author:** ![Penfeather](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penfeather/32/384_2.png) [@Penfeather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Penfeather)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2014, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-left-my-service-dog-behind-as-i-began-to-leave-a-flea-market/704719/70 "2014-11-21T02:20:04Z")
> [@GrandWino](#): > > Don’t some people have service dogs for anxiety and shit? Some of them just for the latter. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2014, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-left-my-service-dog-behind-as-i-began-to-leave-a-flea-market/704719/71 "2014-11-21T02:48:55Z")
> [@Ambivalid](#): > > I really wish the OP would come back and inform us as to why he requires a service dog. One that he requires yet is _able_ to forget. He probably forgot all about this thread. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2014, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-left-my-service-dog-behind-as-i-began-to-leave-a-flea-market/704719/72 "2014-11-21T03:26:38Z")
> [@kayT](#): > > Well, he apparently doesn’t wish to return to this thread and defend or explain his behavior. I believe we have been abandoned. ☹ _whimper_ ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2014, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-left-my-service-dog-behind-as-i-began-to-leave-a-flea-market/704719/73 "2014-11-21T03:52:56Z")
> [@needscoffee](#): > > He probably forgot all about this thread. I C wut U did dere. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2014, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-left-my-service-dog-behind-as-i-began-to-leave-a-flea-market/704719/74 "2014-11-21T04:44:21Z")
> [@leftfield6](#): > > :smack: He left his fucking dog behind. Not a bag of oranges. For fucks sake. And a service dog at that. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2014, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-left-my-service-dog-behind-as-i-began-to-leave-a-flea-market/704719/75 "2014-11-21T17:20:37Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > I wouldn’t over think leaving anything behind. I’ve set my dinner on top of the car to unlock my door. Drove off with it up there. I’ve done that except with my kids. It’s ok little kids are bouncy. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-left-my-service-dog-behind-as-i-began-to-leave-a-flea-market/704719.md?page=3)