Rachel’s account begins in April 2013 with a dump of like two hundred photos of dogs she’s been involved with raising for NHSD. Her original handle appears to have been SITatRollins, SIT being Service Independence Training. It’s a club she runs at Rollins College (yes the same college Cheyanne got a scholarship to and blew) to promote puppy raising for SD orgs and the page is not personal at first. It’s just to show off what puppy raising while in college entails. She has an older personal account, @ra_denton but it’s private. Unfortunately it appears this is where much of her early health-related posts were, and she’s still updating it based on the very recent profile pic.
Here’s our first pics of Rachel. She’s a pretty young girl living in or near Fish Hawk/Lithia, Florida, suburbs of Tampa. She’s a psych student and extremely religious.
She’s athletic.
She has a cheapie wheelchair although she later explains it’s just for training purposes. Since a lot of the dogs get matched with wheelchair users she wants to make sure they’re used to working beside one before they go off for their final training.
She’s a vegan. While her body weight is on the low side of healthy and dips a few times in the course of her account, she’s probably not an ana-chan. When she shows off her food it’s stuff like big bowls of pasta, fried potatoes, grilled “cheese” sandwiches, and rice and beans. She also drinks a lot of bottled juices and smoothies, starbucks, and other full sugar drinks. She just seems like one of those people who eats what she wants when she’s hungry, stays active, and doesn’t worry too much about calories.
This is her aunt Sue. We'll be seeing a lot of her.
Her engagement is all from other service dog raisers and college friends.
In May, she gets a new puppy to raise, Sequoia.
Admits it’s heartbreaking to raise a dog for two years and then have to hand them over to someone else, but it’s worth it when she sees the dogs paired with someone who truly needs them. Noble, really, except Sequoia is the first dog she’s raising for longer than a few months so she actually has no idea what it’s like to have a dog for a year (not two) and then hand him over. When Sequoia does leave she loses her shit even though she immediately gets a new puppy to work with.
She goes to one of “those” churches.
NHSD gives them a list of 60 commands to work on, so it’s not just a babysitting service. They work with the dogs right away. In the early years of her account, she shows off that by the time her dogs leave they know how to help someone undress, turn light switches on and off, open and close cabinets, doors, and appliances like the refrigerator, and even flush the toilet.
I usually mock them for doing this, I know, but usually the dog is like two, when ‘leave it’ should be up there with ‘drop it’ on your puppy checklist because… yanno, puppies are dumb and eat shit that can kill them. Rachel’s doin it right, this puppy is like 10 weeks old and a strong “leave it” at 10 weeks is impressive.
First time mentioning a doctor and it’s a dermatologist. Nothing to see here.
She’s mostly just young, active and having fun. I’m not kidding when I say I almost called it at this point back when I first started archiving her in 2020. I thought she was just raising these dogs for other people and had some agreement with Disney to let her train dogs while she worked, the wheelchair was explained, she never showed off her tubes and denied even having them, and everyone in my circle of leaks confirmed that while it was suspected she had a port and tube she never talked about them.
Scratched her eye. When she mentions some health issue it's always very normal things.
Knows basic obedience and isn’t being totally ignored by its owner = legit service dog.
First of many “discriminated against because dog” posts. She’s one of those people who really gets a boner from winning when an establishment tells her she can’t bring the dog in.
A new school year begins and oh god her shirt says I Love Jesus.
Of course she trains at Disney but to be fair, I guess if you’re training SDs in central Florida for someone else you should assume that person might end up at one of the many theme parks and you want the dog to be comfortable there. She has a bunch of disability activism shit but she's not claiming to have any disability at this point.
Still really active, taking Sailing as an elective.
Minor concussion, doesn’t explain.
Can’t have been too bad because she’s back at Disney and roller blading in a few days.
Mobility harness. Again just for training/acclimating.
She really enjoys gloating that her dog can go places your dog can’t.
Like disney! Over and over.
Sometimes with a wheelchair, sometimes with a mobility harness.
She gets to do some fluffy news bits and a lot of events for NHSD, along with school full-time, dog training, disney trips, and other clubs she’s involved with. So much energy. Youth is wasted on the young etc etc.
RunDisney comes around again and she’s excited to be participating even though #arthritis kicks her butt. Wait what?
Yeah. So while she was previously saying the chair was merely a training tool, now it’s a necessity for “joint issues.”
Within days she says she’s being investigated for RA and it’s great to have a dog to help her out.
Remember when she said she couldn’t use the harness until he was 18 months old? #mobilitydog. We won’t jump to conclusions
yet since that’s a big umbrella category which includes both the “using my dog as a cane” shit the owner-trainers pull and non-weight bearing tasks someone with mobility issues might need like switching light switches and opening doors, which we know she trains.
Both the mobility harness and the wheelchair are becoming permanent fixtures. Brooks is the dog her aunt is training and they swapped for a week to get them used to working with other handlers.
Feet and ankles swelling, need dog STAT.
Here she admits the mobility harness is not something NHSD recommends; it’s something she bought and people are complaining a puppy that young shouldn’t even be wearing it to get used to it yet. Swears she’s just acclimating him and never puts weight on it.
First time
ever getting bloodwork. Man, isn’t it nice to be offensively healthy? If only she’d left well enough alone.
[crap lost a screenshot, working on it, sorry]
Little bit of backstory. We learn that as a child someone gave her a book about guide dogs and how they’re trained and since then she’s wanted to be in on the action.
At the rheum.
Heads to Nashville for the national level of a local competition she and her friend did.
Some mistake her extra harness NHSD did not provide her with for a guide harness and therefore she is blind. This is
definitely not her intention.
Here we learn her aunt is the one who told her as a child that she could raise a service dog when she was older.
“Whether it was for training or out of necessity”
It’s funny that whenever she takes him someplace a lot of people who don’t know her will see him (i.e. not on campus) she chooses to use the mobility harness.
Getting an MRI #ra #rheumatoidarthritis.
Meanwhile she’s getting a lot of attention for being the girl with the service dog, even if it’s not hers to keep.
In April 2014, Sequoia’s time with Rachel draws to a close. He’ll be sent to finish his training with New Horizons, first through their prison program and then a final polish-up before being matched with a person. Rachel will get a new puppy and the cycle begins anew.
Her new puppy is named Revere and, consistent with other stories we’ve heard about NHSD and their possibly questionable breeding program, one of the puppies in his litter was PTS because of major birth defects.
Her RA means she now has to use a wheelchair at disney every time she goes.
Sequoia leaves and Revere arrives. Rachel posts a ton of weepy posts about losing Sequoia and how much it hurts, followed by endless puppy pics of Revere with little new information for us.
You could just leave the puppy home since it’s not your service dog, it’s not task trained, and it probably shouldn’t be going out that long. She herself wails about people taking their puppies out for way too long in overstimulating situations. But “girl with the service dog” has become her identity in the year she had Sequoia and therefore the thought of not bringing the dog with her is crazy-talk.
Unexpected eye doctor trip, no reason given but another complaint about fake service dogs.
For the record NHSD does actually pair dogs with people who are not insane munchies most of the time. They’re a legit organization, but like many such places they are inundated by “zebras” who have doctors willing to sign off that they really for real need a dog like our dear friend in Clearwater.
Crippling RA, seeking a better medication. Not training Revere for herself but in the future wants a dog of her own. Also we see she has changed her handle to @raising_liberty (hint 1)
Here we find out she’s moving to Virginia (hint 2) and that her school wasn’t keen on her raising service dogs on campus (hint 3)
Yep, she’s transferring to Liberty University, that bastion of Jesus-based education where you can show off that you are the most Christian to ever Christ!
And she’s even gotten rid of her disney pass! I believe that Rachel moved schools in part because Rollins said no more dogs when she traded Sequoia for Revere, but also in part because she wants to go somewhere that people don’t know she was an active, healthy girl with no health complaints just a few months ago.
Just sitting somewhere it would be extremely painful if not impossible to stand up from if my joints were actually bothering me, nbd.
She moves into an apartment in Lynchburg with awfully steep stairs.
Now she has a whole new audience who don’t know the chair was just a training tool. She uses the chair to avoid pain but admits this one is heavy and hurts her joints, so she wants to save up for a Tilite (and I’m guessing she asked her doctor if she could get a script for one and he went “lol no” since the rest of them never seem to have a problem getting insurance to cover it once they get the referral.)
lol apparently she never cleared it with LU before she showed up on campus with a puppy.
RA so bad she needs a wheelchair. Mountain trails.
Don’t worry, she explains she was in tons of pain and will take tomorrow off.
Almost immediately has to pack up and move all her shit again because of smokers
Here we learn that transferring schools set her back a lot because most of her classes didn’t transfer.
Muh jointz.
Here’s another mountain hike.
Her legs are as thin as her dog’s legs.
Puppy helped her climb when she lost her balance. Somehow. But she totally doesn’t put weight on her dogs.
These are her sisters, brother-in-law, and niece. They live up in VA too, from what I can tell.
A few weeks of nonsense posts later and she’s in DC in the wheelchair. She’s blessed with family and friends who don’t question her story. #spoonie
Back home on fall break. She’s doing the Candlelight Procession at EPCOT.
Going to Universal. Fat aunt is in a wheelchair, Rachel has a cane.
Don’t worry, she rented a scootypuff for herself.
It’s all for training of course.
In December she goes to Johns Hopkins to see a new rheumatologist, one of the best in the country, for her worsening RA. Hopefully she’ll get some answers!
She gets some answers. They include, “congratulations! You do not have RA.”
Back in florida and she’s sad to find that she’s not sick and taking it one day at a time.
The guy in the middle has SMA. How can you not feel like a shithead larping disabled next to a guy who has SMA?
Lmao is that a cocker spaniel? What the fuck task does it do, shit on your carpet then bite you when you try to clean up after it?
Appomattox: fine
Walking around the zoo on a cold day: fine.
At home on a snow day: TERRIBLE ACHES AND PAIN but otherwise fine.
Spring break beach day: fine
Disney: wheelchair for muh pain.
EDUCATE YOURSELF
Her family has decided to move up to Alexandria, VA. Unsure if they actually do since later posts indicate they still live in Fish Hawk, Fl.
I feel vindicated that this service dog org shares my opinion that dogs never belong on an escalator.
Using the mobility harness again. “He’s the only reason I was able to walk as much as I did.” Which suggests she’s using him for support which she knows she shouldn’t do.
Turning over a new leaf. She’s content if god doesn’t diagnose her with something. She’s going to be in pain no matter what so she’s going to have fun. It’s really easy not to let your illness stop you when it’s not real.
Revere is now ready to go for his last months of training and Rachel is going to get another new dog to train.
And with that she’s back to hiking and roller blading.
Her new pup is named Rollins after the college she used to attend.
Still active and traveling.
Poor dear had to do Disney
without a dog accessory. She didn’t even know how to behave!
Unexplained ill health.
Here we learn that Rachel is very special and for some reason not required to attend the training classes all the other NHSD puppy raisers have to attend. She’s one of the only one of their volunteers who was allowed to leave the central Florida area with one of their puppies.
And we also learn that sometimes they let people owner train with supervision. We writers call this “foreshadowing.”
She gets a second puppy right away, a lab named Cayman. She will be co-raising it with her aunt, with Rachel doing the puppy 101 work over summer break then her aunt taking over when she goes back to college.
Still claiming RA after being told at Hopkins that she doesn’t have it.
She used to ignore potential owner-trainers asking her where she got her non-NHSD service dog gear. Now she’s telling them.
Goes to Disney. This time brings her aunt’s older dog because her puppy is too young. Also notice the mobility harness.
Here she says the dog is most likely
not going to be used for mobility but for PTSD response. The only reason he’s wearing the mobility harness is so Rachel can use him as her personal mobility device even though he’s not done training or growing.
Admitting she’s using him for mobility for her arthritis she was told she didn’t have. This allows her to go to Disney on 4th of July despite her terrible pain that was so bad she couldn’t sleep. Cool.
My theory about Rollins College telling her no more puppies on campus may be unfounded, or at least the person running their insta didn't get the memo.
She now has three dogs to train, since Sequoia has been returned to her for impulse control issues.
“stop telling me not to use a mobility harness on my dog!” At least in this case Sequoia is done growing and they’re almost certain the dog will go to a wheelchair user, so the mobility harness, wheelchair task, and Rachel-tier weight bearing aren’t the worst things to happen.
Lol yes thats a papillion and yes it’s a “psychiatric service dog.” Alas, locked account. The aussie’s owner tries to hide that she uses him as a SD for some reason, with only a few scattered pics in the beginning of her account, and she never says what he’s for. I’m gonna guess vague psych complaints since her whole account is dog sports, hiking, and other displays of her excellent health.
Disney trip = wheelchair for fat aunt but for some reason Rachel is now fine to walk around disney with no chair.
Just posting because she’s increasingly particpiating in SD drama as her audience slowly switches from other puppy raisers to owner-trainer munchies.
She returns to Liberty for another year of attention seeking, suspicious hiking, and aggressive jesusing
Including jesusing underground in a tunnel for some reason!
Gee rachel, maybe they were talking about fakers in general after seeing your real service dog. Why would you assume they were calling you a faker?
She’s flying around the country a lot and also not talking about her health at all. We are back to just a normal puppy raiser who is passionate about helping train dogs for disabled people.
She travels a lot actually.
Wheelchair because out somewhere in public and need to be read as really disabled.
This is the first time she’s posted something even suggesting she still has anything wrong with her in months and it’s just icyhot.
ESA drama. She’s being very boring when suddenly…
We’re in the ER for a horrendous flare that made her pass out. #autoimmune. Once again it’s great to have a service dog around hint hint.
A few days later it’s fall break and that means DISNEY!!! And the obligatory sitting on the ground with my dog on my lap post.
Won’t allow my autoimmune joint disease stop ME from hiking!
Officially back to #arthritissucks.
I really wish I had access to her personal account, I bet she was sperging about her health constantly. Alas, we shall make do with what we have.
“how can I be the center of attention all the time?”
One of the things I find funny about Rachel is in her earlier posts she openly despises children, often filming other people’s brats behaving badly and comparing them to her perfect dogs. Pretty funny given that she now works with kids all day every day.
RunDisney. This year she only participates as a spectator.
Back to school with TWO dogs. The little guy is R2D2 who her friend will be raising. Why her friend is also exempt from NHSD’s rules about puppy raisers attending training sessions in Florida is beyond me. I think they agreed Rachel alone was enough support for this girl.
Rock climbing I guess
Surprisingly she doesn’t make a fuss about needing the dog with her while she’s working. Probably because she works food service but Rose/pood.dude also worked at a froyo place and chimped over the ADA then brought her dog despite her boss saying no.
So offensive to be assumed healthy.
days later: gym time!
Lol she overused NSAIDs and gave herself an ulcer.
I don’t know Rachel, why do some people want to LARP disabled so they can bring their dog everywhere?
So many complaints in this era about access issues.
Of course after a week in NYC doing whatever she wanted her RA flares and she has to spend days in bed recovering (or doing yoga, whatever)
Another school year is drawing to a close and that means Rollins will soon leave and a new puppy will join us.
Lol she posted months ago about how she doesn’t like dog boots and felt like they were the reason her pet dog suffered heat stroke. Someone else questions this story and suggests she was ignoring the signs that her dog was overheating and needed to get inside and drink water. So she comes up with another time one of her dogs overheated because of boots.
A painful flare calls for the black and white filter of course
Once again the benchmark for “legit service dog” vs “pet in a vest” is basic obedience.
I know guys, she’s boring me too and you guys don’t have to see the 5 daily pics of her dog at Target. Don’t worry. It gets good soon.
Goes to a new city, gotta have the full heavy mobility rig.
Change is coming. I have no idea what the no longer engaged comment is about. She never mentions even dating anyone but I guess she could have deleted all the posts about it.
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