I’m just gonna preface this by saying I know basically nothing about horses. I know the things you can learn from television: they're prey animals that spook easy and try to run away when they do, their stupid legs are fragile and if they break a bone or fuck up the ligaments you often have to euthanize them, and they might kick you to death if you walk behind them. It's not like dogs where I can guess from their body language and the owner's description what's actually going on because of my experience. So we're going on this educational journey together to learn exactly what the fuck a service horse is like.
Oldest account I can find for Abrea is dressage_lover_33 on instagram, starting in 2012. She’s a 26-year-old corn-fed Nebraska girl who loves horses, nothing to see here.
She’s not enormous despite what that photo suggests. She's chunky, but also has kind of unfortunate body fat distribution. Even when she loses weight she never really looks as thin as she is because of her round face, jowly chin, and large upper arms.
The way she dresses does not help her.
But she's alright. She travels, she rides horses, she eats good food and drinks wine, she plays with Legos Nerd shit. Fandom shit. You know the type
She even goes to Casa Bonita on one of her vacations.
This is her dressage horse Cadenza.
She dogsits.
For years her most interesting posts are the vast amounts of terribly unhealthy food she eats especially on her annual birthday trip.
And then woop, #anorexia #ana #bulimia. We’ll get there.
Lots of mental health, I’m strugglin’, and ED stuff after that
followed by cupcakes and more of her incredible diet! We learn works for Hyatt hotels
Obviously gaining weight over the two years since her account started but what can you do?
I mean, stop eating like this, I guess.
Anyway. Dogs!
She turns 29.
she goes to Jamaica and she is looking robust.
This food all looks delicious. It's just all so rich.
Abrea quits her job at Hyatt which is how she got to go on nice vacations all the time.
A few days later she moves into a new place.
And nerds out at comicon.
She's working for Paypal and she's into gay pride now.
Like
really really into it.
She gets a new kitty. Normally this is where I’d say “I promise this is going somewhere” but we already know she has a service horse and that’s pretty much the punchline.
She has adopted the Kate diet of mac and cheese, sugar cereal, and pinot noir.
The diet is working!
She gets an eating disorder tattoo omg. look I know you can don't have to be thin to have an eating disorder and that there's disorders like BED or even bulimia that make you gain weight, but the juxtaposition of the NEDA logo on her big thigh just makes me laugh.
We’re back to our regularly scheduled content. She goes to Jamaica again for more greasy, cheesy, carby food. Good lord.
Good
lord.
She hides her double chin and terrible skin with filters and makeup now, which she's never done before.
There’s a few posts about not feeling well and the cat being glued to her, nothing special. Sounds like a normal cold or something
She pets another dog. This is Peanut and we will see more of her.
First mention that she has anxiety but she's on medication for it.
She loves this dog! (spoiler I also love this dog.)
Remember all those trips she took and all the good food she ate and how much fun she had? This time she’s horribly anxious and homesick and all she wants to do is curl up in a blankie.
She loves letting the dog cuddle with her.
Also she’s moving again.
Now she scratches herself raw if someone touches her.
Yeah I prefer vidya to my job too.
She snuggles with the big-headed good girl again
I thought this was blackface and momentarily got excited that we were gonna have one of those really fun ones but it's some dr. who thing.
#PTSDsucks
And now the cat is an ESA and she brings it to her appointments because ESAs are service animals according to her. The cat makes the sads go away so she starts taking it everywhere.
And the cat just knows something is wrong rather than like, wanting attention or her body heat.
Don’t worry, peanut remains a pet.
Suddenly in June 2017, three months after she decided taking her cat everywhere got her the attention she was craving, we meet Flirty #serviceanimal.
Several months later, she makes an account for Flirty who was once a show horse but was sold to Abrea at 5 years old to train as a service animal for psychiatric tasks. It is possibly the first time someone has used a horse for psychiatric tasks.
Now we have moved entirely to the Flirty account. She lives in an apartment with the horse. For all the times I have laughed at this woman on this forum, I really never considered the logistics of a service horse. I always assumed it like, went into a barn at night like a normal horse and only was around when she needed it on outings but no, it sleeps in the house.
She got a horse because she’s allergic to dogs. HAHAHAHAHA. Scroll up.
And claiming she has "pretty much all the same tasks as a psychiatric service dog" and that hypoallergenic dogs won't do it for her due to the severity of her allergies.
Still sucking down caffeine with her debilitating anxiety. Love it.
So when I wrote about Myranda and she and Abrea went on vacation, I made a comment about how Flirty was shitting in the hotel room. I did not understand why she needed a litter box for the horse. If you can train it to go in the box why you can't just housebreak it like a dog? Turns out a horse cannot really hold their bladder or bowels and even going a few hours without taking a shit is dangerous. Abrea taught her to do it in a corner of her bedroom and now is trying to teach her how to go on cue. She had to move out of her last place in a hurry and now some friend is temporarily letting her and the horse crash in their basement. She says this is "pretty much like potty training a dog" except no, not at all.
Or a cat, because it's not even a potty box. She spreads shavings all over the floor and lets the horse shit where it wants.
She's moving in with the girl who has peanut the pit bull.
severely allergic to dogs
Hi Myranda! I didn’t know they became friends so quickly into Abrea’s service animal social media presence.
TIL horses are fuckin filthy.
I don’t understand the bath pics people post on social media. But can you train a horse like you do a dog? I know horse people say they’re super smart and you have this intense bond but like, I just feel like they're so extremely different from dogs and therefore it stands to reason they can't do everything dogs do and vice versa.
She takes her horse to the psych services. I'm sure that will convince them that your mental health is doing better.
Hanging out with Myranda at a restaurant with her horse just kinda hanging out at the table.
Haha. Munchies.
Horse at the mall. She’s only been fully training for six weeks but allegedly learned a bunch of psychiatric alerts and responses. Horses are psychic just like dogs, wow!
Just because she isn’t sick doesn’t mean she’s not a spoonie.
The horse is so attentive to Abrea and only Abrea it notices tiny changes in the way she's standing but Abrea doesn't notice
the anxiety itself. Also lets us know the cat can't distinguish between flirty's "stall" and her own cat box so she shits where the horse does.
In the annals of “I did not consider the logistics of a service horse and how it differs from a regular horse” it does not ride in a trailer. Abrea has removed the passenger seat of her Hyundai Tiburon and that’s where the horse stands on car rides. Something about this is very unsettling to me but I do not know what.
Repeating that she needs a horse because she’s allergic to dogs and even 'hypoallergenic breeds' aren't enough.
Next post: Jessa on her bed in a hotel room. She states Flirty can’t stay in the hotel with her because she can’t hold her urine and feces, so she goes without her for the week. They're at a comicon, which one would think would make her anxiety spike but nah, it's fine
And remember, there’s a dog at home now, too.
Bringing her cat to appointments for attention made her think “an anxiety horse is exactly the thing I need!”
“the worst heel in the world.” That’s not a bad heel, that’s a totally untrained dog who obviously never gets walked and deserves better.
Service cat. It gives a medical alert. Imagine trusting your life to a cat.
She’s a customer service monkey and her boss did not like when she suddenly decided she'd be bringing a horse to work with her. She’s transitioned to WFH.
The horse needs a rope tied around her ass to pull her up the stairs because otherwise she doesn't understand and refuses to try. But she's totally going to learn to wake Abrea up from night terrors and fetch medications for her!
Oh I believe it. The ADA’s rules are lax as fuck when it comes to service animals which is why we’re in this mess. I just don’t think you need a horse in Walmart for anxiety and am going to booly you for it.
...the horse alerts to headaches lmaoooo. The horse does that lip curl thing they do when they’re trying to understand a smell and 15 minutes later Abrea gets a headache which means she was totally alerting to the scent of bad headache chemicals! Or your horse is telling you to take a shower.
The horse is dressed in a stupid costume and scared of the bus. The driver doesn’t want it on but she makes it go anyway after Myranda screeches and threatens to get the guy fired. These people are so averse to any kind of standardized test, ID, or certification for their animals because they know a horse that’s been “training” for a few weeks is in no way a service animal and most of the things they claim the animals can do are unproven or impossible. Jessa couldn’t even pass CGC because other dogs made her go nuts and Flirty just learned what stairs were like two weeks ago. Imagine if they had to pass CGC to train in non-dog-friendly places and some kind of public access test without using prongs or e-collars to be considered full fledged service animals. I can think of one person in my entire history of documenting service animal spergs that would pass. (Megan Stoff/helper dog nala! While I think she’s a horrible person who doesn’t need a service dog, Nala is undeniably well-behaved, even her worst enemies have nothing bad to say about the dog, and she trained her through positive reinforcement.)
the comments on it are a goldmine lol
Things I did not consider about a service horse: where does it go at a restaurant? In the first pic of the horse at the restaurant I didn't think about it much because it was her first time and they were trying to take cute pics of her at the table. But it suddenly dawned on me they don’t really lay down like dogs do so it just stands there next to her while she eats. Even if this horse was professionally trained by a service horse program to be the best little service horsie the world had ever seen, it would stand next to the table at eye level with the food, awake, silent, and staring. I was not afraid of horses until I started writing this and now i feel vaguely threatened by them.
So yeah the real reason Abrea needed a service horse was that she was already a weird horse girl and found a way to bring horses with her everywhere.
She brings the horse to Trader Joe’s. It can’t hold its peepee for long so she tries to get it to go outside beforehand but because people are around it won’t go. Then people keep touching and trying to take pictures of the horse inside the store and asking what’s wrong with Abrea. Remember this animal is for psychiatric tasks. This just seems like it’s causing a lot more anxiety than it ever could solve.
She flirty-proofs the house by putting down pee pads and a tarp. Look I love animals, that's pretty obvious from my writing, but I can't imagine someone doing this in my house.
The horse pees in the shavings and then sleeps in the peepee shavings.
“my wonderful protector” horses are prey animals.
So apparently going up and down stairs is really difficult for horses because of how their spines are constructed. Everything about this sounds like such a bad idea.
Aww this should be fun for her.
Why is this big bitch wearing a BDSM collar in public? I do not consent to be part of your fetish
she can sit on the couch next to the dog all day but she needed a service horse for her severe dog allergies.
The house is covered in hay, horse shit, and shavings all the time.
Horsebae caught me slippin.
Isn’t it a profoundly bad idea to give horses people food? Like that is the one thing I know about horses: their digestive systems are retarded and if they get a tummy ache they could die.
She has to clean the manure out of her bedroom ("the stall") before she goes to bed to keep the shit odor to a minimum, then clean it again in the morning after the horse shits again overnight. I'm already moderately grossed out by litter boxes but somehow this is so much worse. Maybe because the horse is just shitting on her bedroom floor and most people don’t position the cat box directly next to their pillow.
By the way she doesn’t have a large fenced yard or anything so she occasionally brings the horse to the neighbor’s house to let it get its energy out or else it’s just in this tiny cluttered house all day. She builds it a “paddock” that’s like 10 feet long for some outside space.
That’s where her horse pisses and shits all night and
that is the head of Abrea’s mattress directly next to it. Luckily that puddle is not pee. It's lysol to cut down on the
stench of pee.
The doctor’s office doesn’t want the horse inside. Someone asks how DPT works with a horse. Abrea says she hasn’t trained it yet. The horse’s task is to stand calmly and be pet or lick her handler. Also the laying across the lap things sounds like it will be painful for both horse and human.
Brown and tan is prazosin (alpha blocker used for anxiety although she's on a hilariously low dose), blue is Indomethacin (NSAID for migraines and severe non-migraine headaches), beige is venlafaxine/Effexor (SNRI anti-depressant). Not sure what the little white boy is.
The further adventures of "this is a bad idea": apparently horses do not have even the body awareness dogs have and their vision is meant more for watching for predators than what's in front of them, so hurt themselves jumping into things.
Lol since she hangs out with the pariahs of the service dog community she is removing people for asking if jessabelle the aggressive coonhound, a teacup chihuahua, or a cat are really a service animal. Why would you even ask her about people putting a vest on their pet!? [nervous laughter]
she transitioned from one psych med to another and had a bad time. Effexor is known for having a really bad withdrawal.
The horse has to see a chiropractor.
Remember when she brought her cat to the grocery store and it was fine because he was an ESA?
I can’t get over the potty situation. My brain will not allow me to rationalize this. How do you even sleep through the smell of horse shit wafting through the air directly next to your head like that? And why are we commanding the horse to shit in the kiddy pool next to the bed instead of taking it outside to shit? I guess just to make sure if she needs to shit in the night she knows that is where she goes but oh, I hate it so much.
So the service cat is legal but only in like one state so that person can just never leave the state because it needs the cat, right?
You perhaps thought I was kidding when I said she started claiming the horse was a mobility animal because she has plantar fasciitis? Nope. She has plantar fasciitis in her left foot. It’s a super common ouchy foot problem caused by inflammation of the plantar fascia ligament. Risk factors: obesity and unsupportive shoes or marathon running. I think we know which one’s the culprit here. Treatment: stretching and corticosteroid injections. Or a horse!
Ooh backstory. She was finishing her masters in piano performance and preparing to audition for a doctoral program and there was an active shooter/suicide situation on campus while she was recovering from an eating disorder. This new school shooting makes her remember all that, and that is why she gets to bring the horse to walmart.
Again, her roommates must love her. Bathing with the door wide open like this because otherwise her horse was upset. Also she has to get a stall mat for the horse but couldn't fit both the mat and the horse in her small car, so she runs this errand sans equus and has no problem.
She starts her Sarahah which is always a great idea when you're getting eaten alive by the internet
Lol. Also when you're a giant asshole who gets in fights with anyone who disagrees with you
These girls all know they’re not disabled and people will think they’re full of shit when they say they need a service dog. You can see it with how many of them only start “needing” one once they’ve moved or gone to college where no one knows them and how many complain that their family are “unsupportive of their mobility needs” or whatever
Lol now she needs the horse because of a
mild dog allergy that was severe in her childhood which is why peanut is allowed around her. Better than living with toxic people! Hmm, I do wonder why Abrea had to leave her house in a hurry right after she got Flirty.
Look, I got it. Just market the kiddy pool full of horse piss as DIY hormone replacement therapy to the troons. "Yeah just like drain the shavings out with a coffee filter before you inject it." Flirty's not pregnant but they don't gotta know that.
Hi Willow!!! Willow (journeyofaservicephoenix/fortheloveofbane) is roommates with Rose (service_dog_oliver/pood.dood). These two haunt the service dog community and interact with everyone. I know little about Willow because she's been private forever, but Rose is a Trevino patient with a too-small wheelchair, formerly an aggressive service pit bull who attacked program-trained dogs, and now a service poodle that does nothing except stand next to her wheelchair with his front paws on her lap over and over again. Rose is well-known for starting drama.
She’s bisexual and she’s in DANGER because people don’t support her rights. Lol no one cares about bisexuals get over it, go date someone of the opposite sex and have a happy life.
Here's the answer as to why Abrea had to move in a hurry right after she got Flirty. The roommate was all on board with her getting a service animal until she actually got it. Abrea says she just didn’t understand the law or whatever but my guess is she didn’t understand until the reality was present that a service horse means having a horse eating hay, rolling in shavings, and taking a dooky inside your house so your roommate can pretend she’s special. Did any of us really understand this was the reality?
Vogmask so she can train with dogs which she was already doing anyway. Remember, she
lives with a dog.
I can’t get over the filth factor. There’s hay in the bathtub because of the horse and she’s just like, yep, gonna soak myself in this vat of cream of cryptosporidium soup, nbd. Baths were already gross before we added zoonoses into it.
The floor. THE FLOOR. Is covered in litter and hay and she’s gonna sleep and eat pretzels in here. Also niceties =/= pleasant items. It means minute details or a subtle distinctions. And while I’m on my dictionary, your animal is not un
phased it is un
fazed. The last half dozen of these I’ve written, the person has repeatedly said that nothing
phased their animal. Okay but plenty
fazed it and you were too stupid or dishonest to acknowledge it.
The horse she’s allegedly going to use for mobility still needs to be coaxed and half-dragged down the stairs because that's scary and unnatural for it.
Why do you want to live like this, Abrea?
It is not the public’s job to manage your mental illness for you.
How is posting TW: SUICIDE any less triggering than someone reading “my friend committed suicide last year”?
Oh look it’s that picture where Jessa is leaning away from the other dogs and everyone pretends this is okay and not a sign that she's extremely uncomfortable being around other dogs. SHE NEVER TAUGHT FLIRTY ORBIT BUT SHE DID IT ON HER OWN!!! It’s actually really difficult to train a dog to do this because it requires them to have a lot of awareness of where their body parts are which dogs naturally do not possess. But this is instinctual behavior for horses to kind of half-circle their herd to protect it because they’re prey so I guess that makes sense? Also one last thing. Remember when she was severely allergic to dogs and therefore needed a horse? She’s at a dog expo.
Next post: remember I’m allergic to dogs
“don’t mind the hay on the floor.”
Her eating disorder story is attention seeking art. She had an ouchy hand problem while preparing for her piano recital in college and this made her so nervous she went off her kibble. She lost 10 lbs in a week (if this is true, she was already quite fat) before finding out nothing was really wrong with her hand and she would be fine as long as she could play through the pain. She thought back on the time she knew someone in high school who had real anorexia and all the research she’d done on the disease back then and she thought, “I can do that.” So she skipped a few meals for a whole entire month. Then she pulled her best friend into a rehearsal room and told her, with tears streaming down her face, that she had become anorexic in a month. She then spent three years in therapy continuing to lose weight and claims she got so thin she could shop in the girls’ section again. Then her friend died and that gave her the strength to recover. She still only eats “out of habit” but thank god, she’s recovered now. Hmmmmmmmm.
Someone posts a video of flirty taken without permission and it went viral on twatter. Abrea said she could have DIED if she had a stalker who was trying to kill her (which she doesn’t) and reposts this unverifiable story about it happening to someone else. Take That Off the Goddamned Internet.
TW: cat.
Look at that pfp. I didn't check her twatter because uh, I hate that platform.
Isn’t this just what horses do when you hold out your hand because there might be food?
I totally had her in a block but had to move her so she could do my anxiety alert!!! But. If you move the horse to do the anxiety alert doesn’t that imply that you already know you’re anxious and don’t need an alert? Like anxiety alert is already retarded and makes no sense because if you have an anxiety disorder then you know what anxiety feels like and don’t need anything to tell you that you are experiencing it. But it’s extra funny when they say things like “I moved her so she could give the alert” or “I gave the command for my alert.”
Someone gets airlifted to the hospital but fuck that dying guy, what’s important is her horse wasn’t spooked.
“You don’t want a service dog because if you have one, that means you live every second of your life with a disability.” Or you’re faking or exaggerating it to bring your dog places other people can’t bring their dogs, which why these people are saying they want one.
The horse needs $400 worth of orthopedic shoes because it can’t walk on slick surfaces and regular horseshoes will fuck up floors. Everything about a service horse seems like way more trouble than could possibly outweigh the benefits.
She’s back on her old account for a while and says she bought plantar fasciitis supports and a hand splint. She’s claiming asthma, some orthopedic problems in her hands, plantar fasciitis, sinus issues, allergies, CPTSD, depression, and anxiety.
Her roommate also has plantar fasciitis! It’s weird living in a house of
disabled people. Thank god for that mobility horse or else how would they live with this super disabling very treatable condition.
A SERVICE HORSE IS NOT ATTENTION SEEKING. Sure is tho. “Most of us would sell our right kidney to do our grocery shopping in peace.” You don’t have to sell your kidney. Just leave the horse home. You’re not going to die from plantar fasciitis if your horse isn’t there to bear your weight. You might have a bad time from PTSD but I don’t really believe you have trained the horse to do anything meaningful to help with the PTSD, if you even really have PTSD, which I don't think you do. So there’s that.
Jessa can be in the tiny sports coupe. Abrea just can't touch her.
Jessa can also be on the bed. This woman's dog allergy must be so severe!
They get anxious when someone questions if these are real service animals. Both of them have panic attacks and have to leave because of it. Maybe service animals for anxiety are not a great idea.
Lmao they’re so transparent holy shit.
Poor baby had to spend
two whole hours at work without her lifeline because they told her no horsies in the office.
Am I wrong in my assumption that young healthy horses need a shitload of exercise? and that Flirty is not getting nearly enough?
take the prey animal to the zoo and introduce it to predators what could go wrong
Myranda says this is a super real and amazing headache alert. Abrea says it was just Flirty begging for a jellybean.
Flirty is alerting to Myranda’s problems now that Jessabelle is retired finally. She alerts to Myranda's needs by... pestering and then biting Abrea. She knew that Myranda was anxious and didn’t have Jessa to task and alert, so she had to alert Abrea so Abrea could take care of Myranda! Amazing animal!
She decides to treat her plantar fasciitis with an actual medical device she has for it. Video included so you can hear her huffing and gasping to walk at a normal pace.
Rumor one: I am not allergic to dogs. Just because she lives with them and lets them roll all over her bed and stuff doesn’t mean she’s not terribly allergic and this means she can bring her horsie to the grocery store.
I’m not sure what normal horse behavior is but I’m pretty sure yours isn’t intentionally doing shit to mitigate dissociation. I’m pretty sure she wants food or something considering you’ve said you keep candy bars and other snacks next to your bed.
She goes to another zoo with her horsie.
Celebrating a whole year of bringing her horsie to the zoo!
As I said the horse has a paddock kind of but it’s tiny and not secure and Abrea needs her horsie in the house to alert to everything and make the bad feelings go bye bye, so the horse only goes outside for short periods when the weather is decent. Also if the horse gets wet or muddy like if it suddenly starts raining, she can't bring it places until she has time to groom it properly so if there's even a chance of rain the horse stays inside. All of this just sounds so inconvenient for both human and horse.
Using the same brush on yourself and your horse: normal horse people behavior?
Oh no guys let’s pack it in and go home. I do not have permission to post these.
You can also walk without a horse. Shocking, I know.
fun fact I just learned about horses, if they don't have something in their stomach at all times they can get ulcers which can quickly turn into a veterinary emergency.
This is so weird for me. If a dog was doing this I’d be like “yeah that’s what dogs do, your hand is salty also they love you and it’s a sign of submission and also licking releases endorphins that make them feel all warm and fuzzy” but idk, I think it’s normal for horses to lick and mouth people’s hands like this too? A few times she mentions that their lips are super sensitive and dextrous and this is how they explore and understand their environment
Over entitled able bodied people? Like, say, someone who wants attention and special treatment bringing a horse everywhere for plantar fasciitis and anxiety and constantly chimping over what everyone else says and does? This post is about how she wanted to occupy the handicap change room but someone was in there who didn’t even offer to switch with her, so she and her horse had to go in a standard room and it was VERY SMALL. I mean if we’re honest you and your horse don’t belong in there either because a wheelchair user might come in who actually does need it and can’t maneuver their chair into and out of the regular rooms. Meanwhile you and your horse fit in one, it was just a kind of tight squeeze.
“help me think of tasks so this person can justify bringing their dog with them places!”
Have you ever considered going away?
training the horse to pull her in a wheelchair. Again, her mobility issue is plantar fasciitis. Also the idea of a service horse is so foreign to me that I keep having to stop myself from saying "she's training the
dog to do x"
Man imagine an animal that follows you to dinner, never lays down, and is always eye level with your food on the table. How creepy both for you and for other diners. The service dog people always love when their dogs come out from under the table and people go “oh my god I didn’t notice the dog was here” because it means their animal was very quiet and kept their down-stay throughout the whole meal. Abrea never gets that because no matter how quiet and calm Flirty is she’s always just standing there staring.
But why? Why would you do this other than for max attention?
Her posts are basically just “hey guys my horse didn’t try to eat my food off my plate, kick a child that got too close, or shit on the floor while we were out today so that’s a win!” The tasks she allegedly does are so stupid and unprovable like “licking my hand while I tap her muzzle” doesn’t really sell me that this is a life saving task.
isn’t she just… playing?
Obese woman rolls around on floor of mall with horse. Not attention seeking tho. Flirty wasn’t even trained for this!!
And my god she’s gotten fat. Also you don’t post many training and tasking videos because you don’t train and she doesn’t task. You got a horse with a mellow temperament who doesn’t constantly try to flee and can hold her peepee while you’re in a store for an hour and that’s all you needed to do. Anything else is irrelevant because you can claim any other behavior she performs from making a noise to snuffling for food is a task.
uh. Don't the giant wide open eyes mean this horse is spooked as hell?
So her "prep" for this was watching TV too loud, taking up a wheelchair seat, and shoving treats in the horse’s face and the horse still couldn’t make it through a movie. Abrea leaves before it’s over.
Oh look it’s alex.
If you only knew how bad it really is…
lmao no you bring a horse in unexpected places, you accept the spectacle you cause. I don’t make the rules. I just took a picture of a horse in the parking lot of a hotel I was in because wow, that’s a whole entire horse in a place I did not expect to find a horse!
So in Myranda's timeline on KF she was screeching about this dog named Thistle. Thistle was a teacup poodle and a "seizure alert dog" for Susan Grill's sister. Thistle's job was to be carried all day and stay awake unless she was sung "a proprietary Trained & Maintained lullaby" that let her know it was safe to sleep, otherwise she might miss a seizure alert. She died a pretty slow and shitty death. In Myranda's posts about it she implied that Thistle was taken to the groomer at Petsmart who put her in a grooming noose against the owner's wishes. The noose tightened due to negligence and crushed her trachea, a one-time traumatic event that caused irreparable damage, then petsmart refused to take responsibility or pay for the surgery Thistle needed and so she was euthanized. The real story, as Abrea tells us here, was actually that Thistle had been coughing and it was first noticed shortly after being groomed. She was treated for kennel cough but did not improve. They continued to take her to both the vet and the grooming salon at PetSmart because of course, the dog
needed to be dyed hot pink and couldn't just get her hair trimmed at home with scissors or a clipper or something. It wasn’t until later that they discovered tracheal damage. So two things to note here: 1) tracheal collapse is common in toy poodles and other toy breeds. It’s suspected there’s a genetic component and there doesn’t need to be actual trauma to the trachea; sometimes the cartilage rings that hold the trachea open just go all floppy-floppy on them over their lifetime. 2) Susan used prongs to train all her dogs and while Myranda insists they are unable to cause tracheal damage they are, just like any other collar. It would only take one bad tug on a 4 lb poodle’s neck to fuck its shit up, like maybe from someone who is used to working with standard poodles? Anyway, petsmart wouldn’t take responsibility or pay for the surgery because it wasn’t their fault to begin with.
Peanut is fat as fuck, stop giving her french fries and start giving her long walks. Another one who needs her animal to hit the door button for no reason she can explain.
Look I’m not trying to help anyone be a better handler or save anyone or anything. I just wanna write funny internet words and collect meaningless digital stickers and compliments from anonymous strangers. If you guys all fucked off with your "service animals" tomorrow I’d go find some other group of people to write funny internet words about.
Nonplussed means perplexed or bothered. You’re thinking of un
fazed.
Man if you have a fear of cats so bad you have to be warned of even a photo of them or you will have some kind of psychiatric event, the internet is not the place for you.
This seems unsafe for all involved.
As per usual, every "man" in this photos is female.
Damn dude just set an alarm on your phone like the rest of us. The horse not only knows that Abrea takes medication at night but she knows that she hasn’t taken it some days and wheedles her until she takes it. Or the horse knows if she makes a noise at night she gets a treat.
Lol Copper's an ESA. Dude can't support his own emotions.
A year and a half after moving into a house that has them, the horse is still trying to figure out how to go up and down stairs.
Oh hey you know what could have caused tracheal damage to Thistle? Being carried around in a Baby Bjorn 24/7. Can you imagine if she had a real seizure with this thing on and went down like a sack of hammers? She’d squash the little fucker.
Another doctor. She's always nervous about bringing Flirty places because they might not understand, but even moreso when she goes to the doctor, so the horse gets a bath in the hopes that a horse that isn't visibly filthy might convince them service horses for anxiety are not a joke.
this doctor, an ortho, tells her the horse isn’t allowed inside. The videos are just her screeching that the medical staff asked her for paperwork for the service horse because they didn’t believe that was a thing and THE ADA SAYS ...
Another doctors appointment, another bath in the hopes that a clean emotional support service horsie is the ticket to being allowed in
Neurologist. Flirty has to stay in the waiting room during her tests. It’s just carpal tunnel and she’s referred back to ortho.
This one she’s just crying because mall security told her the horse isn’t allowed inside. Remember that she has this thing for
anxiety. Nothing will convince me that the constant access issues over whether the horse is allowed inside is a net gain over just not bringing it
she’s embarrassed and now hiding in the shitter. Security waits outside the door for her and kicks her out anyway so she calls the police. Lmao. 'Police? Yes I'd like to report that the mean Paul Blart man at the mall said my pony isn't a real service animal!"
This time the ortho lets her pony in!
She’s getting carpal tunnel surgery and turning it into the scariest thing on the planet
Tw: joking about fakes. Yeah, I guess that would cause anxiety if you’re always waiting for your turn. (This is Abrea's turn btw)
Thistle is dead and they’re trying over with another toy poodle. FTR Thistle was not just euthanised when they found out it was fatal. They flew her to Florida so Susan and her sister could sing her the proprietary Trained & Maintained lullaby that put her to sleep one last time while the vet was sedating her for euthanasia. So this poor dog that couldn't breathe because her windpipe was collapsed got to be an attention seeker's accessory right to the last breath.
“Trained and maintained is highly successful at teaching alerts.” Yeah it’s really easy when all you have to do is teach the dog to paw or lick you occasionally and claim it was an alert but thanks to him you won’t have a seizure now.
And she's milking this surgery for all it’s worth.
for them.
