Ted Rambles - Blog Posts

Hi chat, this is IRL Mulberry if anyone is curious! He's my work, therapy, and driving buddy. Basically he comes with me anywhere where I can't be be with my cats or husband. Mulberry helps keep me grounded and present when my CPTSD starts kicking my ass.

P.s. ESSA stands for Emotional Support Stuffed Animal.

You can look under the cut for me rambling about service dogs!

As much as my medical team, therapist and I agree an actual service dog would be beneficial, I just can't have one right now. It would be really irresponsible for me to get a dog when I live in a small ass 3rd floor apartment where it's already hard enough for me to get downstairs normally. I'm not gonna risk aggravating my RA more then I already do going up and down 3 flights of stairs once a day to go to work you know? One day though!

I think I'd have a preference for getting a golden retriever since they are one of the fab four (most common SD breeds because they tend to have very strong results) and could be really useful for both psych work, high heart rate detection, and helping me with mobility. I've got... like a lot of medical issues lmfao. Anyways!

In case anyone didn't know, I'm a part-time wheelchair user! I have rhumetoid arthritis and it's very unpredictable. Sometimes I get a flare up because of stress, or pushing myself too hard, or the weather changing or sometimes just because I haven't had one in a while. It would be really nice to have a dog large enough to help break a path for me in crowded spaces since my wheelchair just takes up a bit more room the an average person walking does. I cant tell yall the amount of times I've had to just sit around while in a rush because a crowd was too thick to let me through and I guess I was just too short for people to notice me???

It would also be super cool to have a service dog task trained to grab things for me and close/open doors. Can't tell yall how hard it is to get out of bed and get my medicine while in a BAD bad flare up. Shit sucks bro. Anyways I think that's enough rambling for today, thanks for reading lol

Sniper deserves a service dog imo

Anyways just my thoughts on post-cannon sniper and why he would need a service dog

☆ After getting out of the gravel war, he was left with a lot of paranoia and distrust of his environment. Being hunted every day for years by spies who can disguise as literally anyone will do that to a guy! He got Mulberry a couple years after getting out. I based him off my ESSA (Mulberry, a springer spaniel i got from bass pro shop), just much larger and with a longer tail.

☆ Mulberry would need a variety of tasks to help Sniper out. One of the most important being sniffing people to spy check for sniper in public. He'd also learn to back block, which is where your service dog stands behind you to be a physical barrier between you and the world while out in public. It would help him feel a bit more secure and less like he is about to be back stabbed by a spy since Mulberry is keeping an eye out for him.

☆ Mulberry would also have other tasks he's trained in like deep pressure therapy, interrupting ptsd flashbacks, and crowd breaking when he's going through it mentally.