Okay this is going to be a bit of “how the sausage is made” because I feel like this is not up to its full potential and that’s on me. When I do one of these timelines, I routinely check out who they are interacting with or other people in photos. If they seem interesting, I scrape their entire account and then I’ll read and write at my leisure. In the past, I used to skim them and do like a quick and dirty archive where I’d only clip the parts that seemed immediately interesting, like the cliffnotes version, then I’d go back and do a proper archive when I was ready to sit down and write. That’s how Mel ended up part of this. I found her interacting with Phoebe, who was the first person I documented for the original Florida series. I very quickly skimmed Mel’s account, took screenshots of things I thought were funny, and then filed her away. When I went to review her further to see if she was worth the amount of effort one of these takes, I found her kind of dull and way too vindictive to be worth it so I tossed her in the do not post pile. It wasn’t until a lot later that I connected her older, now-deleted accounts to her, found her facebook, and saw her causing drama everywhere she went that I took a closer look at what I had. Unfortunately, by that point she’d already gone scorched earth on her insta and soon after locked down her facebook. This is all to say, this archive sucks. There’s captions that I only cut a tiny piece from. The comments sections are gone and because she was one of the first I documented, I didn’t know who was going to end up being part of this so I probably missed a lot of funny shit just by not knowing who the commenters were yet. I’m kicking myself for not archiving videos that are now lost to time. But we can still make an entertaining timeline out of what I have from my amateurish past, which I think is truly a testament to how insane Melissa Lucas is no matter what her current internet persona says.
So the account I archived dates to 2017 but she had already had several before then which have been wiped out or renamed, @griffindogs, @sunshinek9s, and @servicedogteemo. Finding scraps of these means finding other Florida Women she interacted with. The fact that there's still this much of her past online should give you an idea of how involved she was in everything. Here's Expanding Intelligence owner Cat Gentile with Kuzco and Mel's two dogs, Gnar and Teemo plus two EI puppies.
March 1, 2017, from this pretty boring account onyx_chronicles (Onyx being one of the first dogs EI trained for someone else). Servicedogteemo is Mel’s old account and @servicedog_saxon, now @servicedogfresno, is Cat. Saxon’s the dog that Sydney said attacked hers but yanno, Sydney-sized grain of salt for anything she says.
This brief video from EI shows Mel in all her rotund glory with Teemo at her feet.
April 2017. The dalmatian on the far right is Juniper, the terrified, stubborn, trainwreck of a dog that Cassie Jones tried to claim was her lifeline, and next to her is Teemo. The other two are Saxon and Onyx.
This one was from FYE, the electronics chain. Gnar, Teemo, and Kuzco with Expanding Intelligence tagged again. Clearly mel was working with them.

At Universal with Whitney. check out that gunt!
Training with Whitney. Also forearm crutch for some reason, which will be relevant later.

Also Whitney's account is the only proof we have that Mel once wore tard earmuffs at theme parks, which are never seen in her current account. That's her in the front and the one with the weeb backpack is Whitney.
There’s almost no traces of this sunshinek9s account that I can connect to Mel except a giveaway featuring Gnar.
But even back then there’s drama. Tangled_with_flynn posts the giveaway and nobucksgiven responds that the account doesn’t exist, only to realize it’s Mel therefore she’s blocked. Elisabeth chimes in to laugh at this. At this point both Mel and Elisabeth are connected with EI through their dogs. i'm pretty sure these two other accounts don't even live in Florida and browsing their accounts they both seem just... bland? Not the kind of people who are picking fights all over the internet. Just a little hint that Mel
might embrace the drama just a little bit.
Posted by Only Leash, who made the thing on Teemo’s neck, in January 2018.
A few days later, some Gnar fanart. This person just seemed to have been a follower who likes drawing dogs.
EI posts about how a command was inspired by something Mel taught Gnar (it's just speak commands at different volumes)
Gnar and Teemo in January 2018 at Universal, posted by the person who made the harnesses they’re wearing.
February 2018, at the mall with Whitney. Unfortunately that Oakley is not Jaquie's ex-dog.
A bunch of accounts repost this giveaway she did in 2018 but there's nothing too interesting. After this there’s no more Teemo on her account. Gnar pops up one or two more times but we’ll get there.
When I first archived the account in April 2020, it started with the announcement that she’s getting a golden puppy and almost everything mentioning that other dogs existed had been wiped. From here on out we are working from my original 2020 archive for most of this, my apologies
. She went to a reputable breeder and checked their studbook and everything. So hey, at least it’s not another deformed freak from Eagle Ridge like Levi or an inbred nightmare from a puppy flipper like the EI dogs. She tags it with the keywords disability, servicedog, PTSD, hypoglycemia, and NAFLD (non-alcoholic fatty liver disease). You know what can cause that last one? Being a sedentary fatass and having uncontrolled/undiagnosed t2 beetus. I don’t know why any of these (bar PTSD in some cases) requires having a service dog.

Her third post announces the puppy who she is calling Severus is going to motivate her to lose weight and get her mobility issues under control. Seems like she is aware the excess weight and her lifestyle are what’s fucking up her joints, liver, and pancreas. Cool. I still don't know why this requires a service dog or why a border collie and an aussie shepherd failed to be enough to motivate her to lose weight since like, they too need walkies, but whatever.

She has the puppy, he is now named Godric, and she’s planning on following a training protocol similar to a program dog and working with professionals. Wants to get involved in rally, obedience, and conformation. For a while it’s all puppy pics all day and trying to get various brands to sponsor her. Chewy interacts with her account a lot.








For no reason #sexualabusesurvivor is on a cute puppy pic, okay then.
French and German commands so that he won’t listen to other people giving him commands while working.

Taking it slow with training while he's a baby.
Now tagging Sensory processing disorder. Says she took the dog on a monorail but shockingly, she’s not talking Disney. It’s the monorail at the Tampa Airport. Journeyofaservicephoenix was
Rose’s roommate Willow. Say, what’s ole Rose been up to these days?



She’s hanging out with Rose and Willow here.
Over on Rose’s timeline we see the other half of that – she gave or sold Gnar to Willow.

Here's some assorted pics and art of Rose's dog with Gnar.





Along with them working Gnar at various places including Disney where Rose almost admits her dog is insane, lest you think they're just having him be a housepet



Depression and sensory issue meltdowns from her own hair. I will never stop laughing at these adults talking about “meltdowns” as if they’re autistic children who haven’t learned any coping skills.
#viralvideos, tagging any company she can think of. She wants to be the next service dog queen of social media so bad.
Sadly, her dreams of having a service show dog end when Godric’s balls don’t drop.

Scores some kind of sponsorship from Chewy and starts reviewing products.
She's attending seminars and taking training courses and keeping training short and fun. Unfortunately she’s taking these classes with people who support the use of prong, choke chain, and e-collars to intimidate and punish dogs into behaving and she will beat her chest and defend these methods every time she’s questioned. I will try not to bleeding heart dogsperg too much. But lemme just say that a positive reinforcement only model is what most legitimate, old school SD orgs I'm aware of go with. At the risk of just totally going off the rails here, my main problem with these owner-trainers is that they're so desperate to make
their specific dog into a service dog that they lose all objectivity to a sunk cost fallacy of sorts. A legitimate program will identify if a dog is just not going to work out and release it as a pet no matter how close it may be to being "done" which they can afford to do because 1) donors and 2) it's not
their dog. As bonded as they might be to him, he was never going to stay with them anyway so there's not quite that emotional reaction to having him leave as a pet instead of a working dog, and choosing to wash a dog who isn't fit for work helps maintain your program reputation. The owner trainers want their dog to be the one, and the amateur programs trying to get off their feet only see how much time and money they've sunk into a puppy, so they're more likely to turn a dog into an absolute crackerjack trying to force a square peg in a round hole or to release a dog who is totally unfit for work and tell the owner he's fine. Just my two cents. I'm not a trainer or SD handler or anything, just a run of the mill dog person who has heard so many horror stories about the trend.



Despite just whining about not taking your puppy to Disney when he’s young, she’s planning on taking him to Universal. She ends up going to Lakeland instead, a city halfway between Tampa and Orlando and much less crowded than a theme park.

Here’s a post from Rose’s timeline.
And from the owner of the poodle pup Rose is forcing her obviously uncomfortable pit bull to interact with.
Hurty ankle syndrome. Perhaps you should lose some weight.
Mel is both engaged (to a human male!) and gainfully employed, which puts her head and shoulders above the rest. She’s good at her job, whatever it is, and gets promoted. She’s trying to balance her new workload and training the puppy with her alleged disabilities. Guess which one gets the back seat!
Wow she certainly has a lot of energy on her days off for someone who claims many debilitating conditions that require a service dog to mitigate!
Back to Rose’s timeline, it’s a DOUBLE crossover! First we have Gnar, but also R2D2 was one of the dogs that was raised on Liberty University’s campus by a friend of Rachel Denton. Rachel did the first days of puppy raising for him at her house then passed him off to a friend who was apparently supervised by her. The weird thing is Willow had to have known she was getting this dog – NHSD requires months of matching and new handler training before they release a dog to a handler. They don’t just go “you’re approved, come pick a dog.” IIRC it’s like a 10 week program of training sessions. So I’m very confused as to why she took Gnar in the tail end of this training but we’ll never know the real story. It will make the next part at least slightly more understandable because we now know that there are three dogs who do not really know each other living in a single apartment. Rose has just moved to Florida with Oliver and Willow has just taken Gnar from Mel and R2 from NHSD.
Here's a pic of them working Oliver and R2 together.
Spends a lot of money on dumb nerd shit.

Vagueposting about spooniverse drama.
Choke chain reeeeeeeeeeeee.
There’s R2D2 again.
Needs to teach her dog retrievals because her hands hurt and she can’t hold things often, she posts from her mobile phone on a mobile-only app. Mentions a glucose kit for her notiabetes.
Finally we get some cahntent. Mel’s weight gain was caused by her disabilities. (Translation: Mel ate herself to several obesity-related diseases because healthy eating is boring.) She has developed NAFLD and other things she does not want to mention. (Translation: Mel most likely has t2 diabetes and some hormonal/reproductive issues related to her obesity but doesn’t want to admit it). She is now pursuing an EDS diagnosis after her friends who have EDS said she might have it. (Translation: all Mels friends have trendy EDS diagnoses and she’s mad that doctors tell her her joints hurt because she’s a sedentary fatass.) People have told her to kill herself because of this. (Translation: the other munchies do not want yet another Large Marge becoming the face of their fragile skinny princess disease.) There may be new tools and doctors in Mel’s future. (translation: Mel is stating her intention to doctor shop so she can join the skinny girl spoonie club whether they like it or not). She’s literally rotting away! (translation: her lifestyle and diet make her feel all icky and that can’t possibly be her fault.)

On the same day, Rose posts that R2D2 has been returned to NHSD for attacking Oliver. Rose claims that the dog just attacked Oliver out of nowhere over a scrap of a toy Oliver showed interest in. Mel is in the comments saying she has Opinions about NHSD and she’ll let them know tonight.



Grooming table, which Phoebe later e-begged for after meeting with Mel. I guess this is where she got the idea.
She spends her night sending sob stories to people about how she’s dying and/or trying to crowdsource information she could use to get a “proper” diagnosis. This is a lot of waaaaaahhhh about how mean doctors keep telling her that her problem is she’s very obese, her joints and organs are suffering under the strain of her obesity, and she doesn’t want to hear how she’s dying of fat anymore. She’s not just a bratty 24 year old!

More spoonie drama, this one about how people she’s met online are not always the nicest people. Whoever it was, she’s blaming the not-tism for why she couldn’t judge characters online without that IRL interaction. That’s normal, Mel.
Dissociation and skin picking.
getting his joints evaluated, fine.
Ooh she got a new switch despite her hands that can barely hold a pen. And even more spoonie drama she doesn’t elaborate on. Can’t help but wonder if this is about when she has the falling out with Ei but we’ll never know.
“Eventually I’ll be a full time crutch user when on my feet longer than two hours.” How did you determine this lmao
Switching to part time so she can spend the rest of her time chasing diagnoses. She needs an MRI, an ultrasound on her paté, to see how bad her obstructive sleep apnea is, and to try and see if she can get a cool psych dx like real autism to milk. Going to a concert with my dog first!

Training her dog to support her at concerts.
Goes to Universal. We learn she once did jiu jitsu.

On an ordinary training video she sneaks #eds into the hashtags.
Her puppy is starting to title.
Lip biting interruption to prevent unspecified “episodes”
Hi Sydney! Hanging out with Rose and Willow again
Multiple times a week she’s out swimming, running, and playing to get her dog exercise. Good for her, all those obesity-related problems should be mended in no time! Oh she means the dog is doing all this while she stands around and observes.
It’s no one’s business who diagnosed me with your skinny princess disease!!!!

That lobsided gunt, jesus christ. Ethan Ralph eat your heart out.
She was president of the GSA and “mainly identified as a lesbian” in the past but is now dating a man after rediscovering her own identity. Hmmmmm why does this sound like a certain personality disorder that happens to be wildly overrepresented on this forum? Yeah pride always sucked but it extra sucks now because it’s all straight LARPers and pronoun people like Mel and they’re always screeching about inconsequential shit. Also everything is “humble” or “humbling” to this one.

Despite just whining that pride wasn’t rowdy enough and going out all over the fucking place for months, she now has the strength to go to Starbucks by herself and is acting like she never leaves the house or interacts with people irl.
What a saint she is.
I don’t have to explain my obvious discrepancies to you!
There’s been rumors I’m injecting my dog with hormones. It was only that one time!!!
The first of many videos I wish I had saved. My 2020 notes from this says “it jiggles.”
big changes, not everyone can like her, she’s such a saint for even trying to be such a people pleaser.

So that last post: Rose and Willow returned Gnar for behavior issues. “childish drama” indeed. So this is the second dog that Willow returned in just a few weeks. Rose never mentioned what happened to Gnar on her profile, or if she did it was memoryholed. But we know that the true-ish story of why Oliver was pulled from service was he became aggressive after another dog attacked him at the park. I have a feeling Oliver was always kind of a shitstarter based on her many posts where some other dog ALMOST attacked hers and this was the first time he was around other dogs in an enclosed space (their apartment) all the time. It just doesn’t make sense that one dog that was definitely a program dog and another that was well-trained if by an amateur both just snapped and Oliver dindu nuffin.

But I'm not holding Oliver entirely at fault. I think he was the one that snapped, absolutely, but I think it was because Gnar was taught this kind of... hug trick? That EI is very fond of, where he wraps his front arms around your leg or whatever on command. Rose and Willow, being total retards who only care about social media attention, thought this was just the cutest darn thing and therefore encouraged him to do it to Oliver over and over again despite that this was
after Oliver got in the fight that made him not like dogs being all over him. Anyway, Point is, given the information currently available to me, I don't believe Gnar did anything but what these morons told him to do which led to Oliver fighting him.

Like. God. I have had pit bulls and love them but I would be absolutely terrified if my pit was this aggressive in a game of tuggy war. it's obvious Gnar is the type to drop it and walk away while Oliver is the type to keep going at it. Anyway moving on.
Anxiety, depression, meltdowns and anger fits after her friends turned out to be meanies. Mm. Soundslikeborderline. Still hoping to go part time so Diagnosis Quest can begin in earnest but her job isn’t accommodating!
Only 50 lbs? You sure bout that? My note for these videos from 2020 reads “flails wildly and fatly.” Also Service Dog Drills is Haley Wager, the fat, functionally retarded, too-borderline-to-function, dog-abusing ddlg fetishist.


Service dogs get attention. None of you would have one if they didn’t. What medical emergency might you have that someone making kissy sounds the dog won’t even react to would hinder?

Sam smith concert with her accessory.
I’d still be doing Brazilian Jiu Jitsu but I just don’t have time because of my dog. You know the “dis” part of ‘disability” implies you do have limitations because of your condition. The disparity between “lifeline dog” and “I’d be wrestling if I wasn’t doing this” is hilarious to me.
more lip biting interruption because apparently you need a dog to let you know that. EI has a bunch of videos of themselves training this so, yanno. Munchie see, munchie do.
I have no personality outside my dog! Getting a bunch of specialist appointments lined up, but her job keeps refusing to let her go to part time.

A roller coaster of new doctors, new diagnosis, and new treatments! Not really looking forward to it
Baby’s first disney trip.
#nonbinary

studying some weird religion who cares, the dog can go to the doctors with her now.
The dog is not just a whiny puppy who’s bored. He was totally alerting to something, she feels just TERRIBLE for zapping him with the shock collar this one time and only this one time. Did you know for every clip she shows of her flailing like a retard she has to sit and catch her breath for 15-20 minutes? Must be asthma and not her enormous fat body crushing her heart and lungs.

Med bag retrieval now that she’s got her inhaler back. And “scenting it” made me think she’s rubbing it in all the unmentionable parts of her body and I want to go home now.

Hahahahaha all her doctors keep telling her she’s just super fucking fat.



Finalizing a new diagnosis. I wonder what it could be!
So it wasn’t even asthma, it was another respiratory infection but hmmm #zebrastrong #edswarrior what could she be hinting at
zooming in on a diagnosis she’s been chasing for six years. She’s lost three jobs, so many friends, and family members in the pursuit of this one diagnosis everyone knows she doesn’t have. She’s been very private about her health and she’s going to keep it that way.
I think the black thing curled up next to Godric’s ass is Gnar, meaning he’s still around for now.
Yep. She got diagnosed with hEDS and fibromyalgia. Almost 7 years to get this diagnosis. So this whole diagnosis quest was brought on by the fact that the human male fiance impregnated her. Her many fat-related conditions likely contributed to why she miscarried. Rather than process the trauma of being so fat her baby yeeted itself, she decided to find reasons it was not her fault. The more she looked at all the other spoonies with their EDS diagnoses the more jealous she got until she found a doctor that would tell her what she unfortunately wanted to hear. That’s my headcannon anyway.


New medication for fibro, new orthotics and potential AFOs (AFO = ankle-foot
orthotic, Mel) as well as not being so fucking fat. Suddenly complaining about a crazy number of dislocations when she’s only ever mentioned hurty joints.
Looks like the rest of the spoonies were not thrilled with this diagnosis and kept pointing out the many more plausible explanations for her symptoms including having about 200 extra pounds of weight on her joints.
For someone who has such bad anxiety she can’t be in public without a dog she sure has no problem with confronting people she feels have wronged her.

Tagging linkin park for sympathy, how pathetic.
Even more titles.
She is humbled. How does she get through work plus doctors plus her grueling training and showing schedule with all her disabilities? Suck it up, buttercup! She won’t let these disabilities stop her from ableing!

Excited for new custom orthotics and those crutches she already said she wanted but that pesky weight loss requirement is cramping her style. So much pain. Can’t even function.

Literally the next day: we went for a hike! Proof of life from Gnar at least, although it’s the last we see of him and he is completely memoryholed after this. Farewell, gentle border collie.
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! She will no longer participate in service dog drama.


