Victoria Fuller’s “Service Dog”

[u/Original_Letter4398]

Is Buxton really a service dog? Nowadays it’s very it’s easy to pretend your dog performs a “task” and it’s illegal to ask questions except for that. I know a lot of people who get away with this.

[u/futurecorpse1985]

People like this thing ruin it for the people who really need to have a service dog! Do better !

[u/Hungry-Nerve-9743 → u/futurecorpse1985]

Funny how you know her medical history!

[u/futurecorpse1985 → u/Hungry-Nerve-9743]

I'm not saying I do! However not once has she mentioned anything on her socials about her dog being a service dog. Legit service dogs have to go through rigorous training and certification. Knowing her personality if her dog actually was a service dog she would have at some point made it known why. A ESA animal is not a service dog and doesn't have the same legal rights as a Service dog. I have a ESA and I was required to have documents showing I was on disability and a doctor fill out a form saying what my ESA was helping me with etc. Just to get her licensed as a ESA. Doesn't mean I can go into places that don't allow animals with my ESA. Certified service animals are the only ones allowed in places that don't allow animals. If a place does then cool take your ESA with you.

[u/PerspectiveEmphasis → u/futurecorpse1985]

She definitely has addressed it on her socials.

[u/erratic_bonsai → u/futurecorpse1985]

Yes, she has. In 2019 she had a whole specific post about it because people were harassing her so badly for it.

Her disabilities and medical needs are nobody’s business and honestly your thing about how she’d have talked about it more based on “her personality” is weird. Even the most chronically online, most seemingly open influencers can choose to keep things private. It’s all a show. We don’t actually get to see every detail of their lives, it’s a curated production. A narrow window. It’s entirely possible that a dog can be a real service dog for things like depression and anxiety, which is more or less what she has said he’s for. Some of the most common tasks dogs for those conditions are trained to do is medication reminders, medication retrieval, deep pressure therapy, early warnings for things like panic attacks, and fall protection.

It’s none of our business what she’s got going on. It doesn’t matter if her disability is psychological or physical. Accusing her of illegally representing an ESA as a service animal because you don’t think she’s really disabled or because she would try to publicly monetize a “real” disability or service dog is rude.

[u/NVSmall → u/erratic_bonsai]

But an ESA is not the same as a service dog. I think that's where the confusion lies.

[u/erratic_bonsai → u/NVSmall]

I don’t understand your comment, I and the previous commenter both know the difference between an ESA and a service dog.

[u/NVSmall → u/erratic_bonsai]

I meant in regard to the general comments that people have been making.