People trying to BUY your service dog

[responsiblek9]

   One of the MOST annoying things......!!
Some guy waking up to you asking how much will you sell that dog for? I want it for my girlfriend because she sees him and wants him..
I did stun the dude by going  " Got $20,000?  Funny to see him scuttle off embarrassed.. and see him trying to explain to very heavily made up off spoiled girlfriend dripping jewelry as to why he cant buy the mutt for her... She was screeching and he had the posture of a little boy scuffing his foot in the dirt. 
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   Next:  Mother of a disabled kid comes up with her child and goes "HOW much you want for that service dog?"  I tell her NOT for sale . Then she offers $5,000 on the spot for the service dog. I tell her  " Hmmh , Have you talked to any programs?" And she complains they have years of waiting lists they are on and cant wait that long. Plus the programs wont train a dog for a kid under 12 and she needs one NOW. AND  insists "That dog is my child's cure and you MUST sell me the dog!" "You must because my child needs the dog more than you do"

 UMMM..... Now who is deranged?? To walk up to a complete stranger and demand they sell their  working service dog on the spot for cash and cant take NO for an answer?

I left that store in a hurry because she was following me around the store. But she had her buggy and I left my cart right in the aisle and hoofed it out of that store and vamoosed. .She really had made me quite nervous!   
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 Next: Big rather agressive loud biker dude comes up and offers me $100 for my service dog so he can give it to his wife. I told him Um the dog is worth more than your bike over there.And my service dog is not for sale. He got I would not just sell my dog to him.   I hotfooted it into the gas station and stayed put . he sat in the parking lot on his bike for a good ten minutes staring into the gas station. Was making the attendant nervous. But he finnally turned on his bike and left.. That was a weird situation... Very rare i run into a weird biker . But that one took the cake.  I mean how would he have transported a dog even if he had been able to buy the dog?? Kinda a lack of logic or forethought??   


These are just a few of the more memorable situations where this came up. I get it at least a couple times a year someone trying to buy one of my service dogs off of me. Makes me a little nervous on some situations .

[k1maplewd]

WoW.  I have just had 1 insistent person, and a bunch of people trying to be funny.  The insistant person, I don't really know why they so much wanted *my* service dog, they were a complete stranger, but I did the same thing, got myself out of there.  The person wouldn't even listen to my friend, who is very forceful in these kind of situations who kept saying "He is NOT for sale!"

[Shidash]

I have never heard of that happening before! It sounds horrible!

[BlindMag]

This is a new one to me.  Things I never thought of.  How awful! 

[Cera]

Oh.  It happens.  The ones joking start when she walks down the street carrying a bag.  "oh, wow!  I want that.  You wanna sell her?  How much?"  "she goes for $20,000 and you can be my full-time aid instead."  I live in down the street from a college, so it happens a lot.

I've also had a guy in a wheelchair give me my number if I changed my mind.  I was on the bus and he pressed and pressed.  He told me he needed her more than I did.

And I had a lady at the hospital with an adult developmentally-disabled son.  She thought I was training the dog and figured "If you tell the program the dog got lost it wouldn't matter."

There's been drunk guys who tried to take her away from me... (one of the reasons I no longer take the bus).

[OneOfManySouls]

While I haven't had people ask me to BUY my SD... I have had people ask me what it would take for them to breed their female dog with mine... My reply leaves them floored.

Here's an example of the conversations....

Person: "Hey. That's a good looking shepherd you have there."
Me: "Thanks."
Person: "Service Dog, eh? What's he do?"
Me: "He's a medical alert/response dog."
Person: "Cool. Means he's smart, eh?"
Me: "Yes."
Person: "I'd be interested in using him to breed with my girl."
Me: "Oh really..."
Person: "Yes. What would it take?"
Me: "Balls."
Person: ".... Excuse me?"
Me: "You heard me... Balls. My dog is neutered."
Person: "... Oh. ... Have a nice day."
Person walks away.

Yep... That's how those conversations go.

[Kirsten]

I've had several offers to breed Cole.  From total strangers in checkout lines.  Thing is...Cole is intact.  I know I'm not going to breed him to their dog, but I try to fend them off by asking about their bitch's health clearances and obedience titles.  Sadly, this is not as effective as I would like.  I need a better retort.  I like the "balls" one, but can't use it in Cole's case.

[OneOfManySouls]

You sort of could... You could say that he had a vasectomy cause they do indeed do that in dogs! Or! You could convince the people that he has those fake testicals lmao

[Shidash]

Wow, that is annoying. It really makes me mad, especially the people who just assume that any SD can help them and that they are easily replaceable, and that they need the dog more... if they had actually thought about getting a SD wouldn't they have contacted a program or done more research?

[responsiblek9]

 I was at a Motel 6 today to pick up a chessie pup as a SDIT prospect for a lady in Arizona. And some well dressed jerk comes up asked me if Wisp  is a service dog  then and tries to buy Wisp off of me for 20$ .  I told the guy get lost and walked off to go meet the  old guy who had the  yearling pup I was getting .As the jerk I was walking away from was still saying BUT i was offering MONEY for her.. Disgusting!!  

[Cera]

well, our dogs are worth more than money...$20 or $20,000.

I thought I already wrote this, but I've had people approach me wanting to breed her with their MUTT.  It was built like a boxer and had a long coat (sheltie??).  Said "they would make good babies."  Ummm...

[Shidash]

Why do people do this?

[fledchen]

Some people have a very strong and very strange sense of entitlement. They think that if they want something, they should have it, even if it belongs to someone else. This sense of entitlement is strengthened if they offer something in return. They will offer all sorts of justifications.

An example of this is a woman who comes into my store several times a week. We sell coffee at my store and have sweeteners, flavored creamers, flavored syrups, etc. that people can put in their coffee. Some people take one or two extra, and we don't care about this. However, this lady stuffs several handfuls of hazelnut flavored creamer into a bag. She gets very angry at anyone who says anything about it, because she offers to pay for it, and starts acting very aggressive and talking about people treating her like she's stealing. Well, frankly, she is stealing, because we don't have a way to charge her for it. We have an option in the computer to charge people for empty cups ($ .29) but she takes a lot more than $ .29 worth of creamer. I don't know why people act this way, this is just another example of the same kind of behavior.

[Trilby]

I had two hard-core gangster teens come up to me in a store asking how much my dog was worth, how much they sell for. I quickly replied "A lot, but it's not resale value, it's insurance coverage. These dogs are donated to the disabled, not sold." The greedy looks in their faces turned to let down. I had the feeling those two would have followed us home if they could keep up with me. Most legitimate org's do donate vs selling, so I was only half fibbing. I've had several people ask me that since (though less creepy people) I give them the same line.

I had one teen loudly announce to his parents & the store that he was going to start bringing the family dog around & say it was an SD. His parents & siblings laughed, the checkers looked at me & then glared at him. I asked him if he had $50,000 to pay the full fines for faking an SD, should they get a judge on a bad day? They all shut up. 

[blkpanther0001]

I had one teen loudly announce to his parents & the store that he was going to start bringing the family dog around & say it was an SD. His parents & siblings laughed, the checkers looked at me & then glared at him. I asked him if he had $50,000 to pay the full fines for faking an SD, should they get a judge on a bad day? They all shut up.

I had a guy at the dr the other day ask me about where did I get my vest and patches and upon talking further to him, he admitted his dog was not a svs dog I told him the fines were up to $10,000.00 plus 3 yrs in jail, loss of all future use of a svs dog, medical privileges like Medicaid/Medicare and other gov. benefits. then asked him if he thought it was worth it.

He then said "well how would anyone know", I said they probably would not but if your dog ever acted wrong inpublic and you were brought to court how would you prove it, also you hurt allthe legitimate svs dog teams that work out their and make it harder for us to go places with our legitimate dogs. He said Yea I see your point I won't even think about it again and will tell others not to do it.

I think I won at least one person over.