museum-spaces:

tienriu:

driftwooddragons:

doggos-with-jobs:

Service dogs training to sit through a movie at a theater.

It’s actually better than that - the picture comes from dogs being trained to sit through a PLAY… which means there are actors on the stage performing a musical for a theatre full of dogs.

Incredible vital update, it was a performance of Billy Elliot.

[Image in first blog: many dog heads poking up over the backs of theatre seats. Some are shorter, you can only see their ears. A few have their noses resting on the seat in front of them]

[Image in third reblog: Screen grab of Quite Interesting tweet that reads “The stratford Festival Theatre in Onatrio, Canada put on a production of Billy Elliot for service dogs in training to practice sitting quietly through a performance.” and quote tweets the same image as in the first blog.]

I love this! I’ve started to research how a service pup might help me. It has been a long time since I’ve been to a theatre.

It is important for museums and historic sites to recognize the work of service animals and the complicated training needed for them to do their jobs. It is also important for all of us FoH workers to remember that not all service dogs perform the same tasks and YOU don’t know how they preform their tasks. What might look like disruptive behaviour to you might be a seizure alert or pulling an over stimulated autistic person out of the stimulation.

It is not our job to question service dogs or their humans, we only accommodate.