AIBU to take my dog everywhere I go

No, you shouldn't be taking a service dog in training everywhere. You should be taking it to places that are manageable for it's current level of training and as it moves through the training phases you can take it to more and more places until it is a fully-trained service dog and allowed everywhere. It's a gradual process.

You should also be aware of people who are allergic and phobic, their health conditions are no less important than yous so you need balance the benefit it brings to you vs the harm it can do to others.

I think a lot depends on where you are taking her. If she is in a cafe and is barking and is jumping on people then yes it probably isn't right to take her there if she is not trained. Better to find a dog friendly cafe.

Places like supermarkets and shops should be find. I assume she is house trainied.

Some people may not want her in their home if she behaves like a puppy in chewing things etc.

I think you need to be mindful - when you say "cafés" there's a difference between lunchtime in Costa in an area full of shops and offices vs. a local café in a small town. Going everywhere with you doesn't mean you shouldn't work your way up to cramped/noisy/busy places.

Isn’t the issue that service users don’t normally train their service dogs? I’ve seen guide dog puppies in training but the people who have them I don’t think are blind or partially sighted. Do they go to the service user fully trained? Yours seems a hybrid where she needs to know you but also needs some “not being a dickhead” training! I’d expect that to be done before she gets to you. Having said that I’ve never seen anyone do anything other than be lovely when they see a guide dog in training.

For most places i think it's fine. But until she is trained I think you should avoid places where her behaviour could cause damage. For example a supermarket where she could be touching food.

It's a given that legitimate service dogs are allowed everywhere and rightly so - so why would the op even think of asking, unless of course they're indeed just trying to validate inflicting another untrained nuisance dog on others....? 😑

Unfortunately @Loopylouloves while not unsympathetic I’m extremely allergic to dogs which means I have to try to avoid them. Your dog would be no more of a problem than anyone else’s though, as long as you had it under control and a reasonable distance away.

YANBU to take your dog everywhere you go. But neither is anyone else BU if they refuse to allow your dog in. When it's a service dog, by law public places must permit it. But it isn't a service dog yet - and "sometimes she doesnt behave when we go out", so when she doesn't behave do you remove her from wherever you are? Are you upholding your end of the social contract?

Dogs fall into two very distinct categories: service dogs; and all other dogs. People complaining about dogs are referring to all other dogs. Service dogs are exempt and everyone who isn’t completely ignorant knows this. You have a service dog. Make sure they are always wearing their harness stating that they are a service dog in training. If their behaviour is a problem though you need to discuss this with the people who are responsible for training and maybe make some changes in the short term about how you take them out in public. It’s important that this training stage is successful.

I love dogs and would love this. This rarely happens to me, you must just be unlucky.

Doesn’t she have a “Service Dog in Training” tabard thing?

Service dogs are almost always exempt from any "no dogs" rules in shops etc, so you shouldn't have any problems, providing it's obvious (usually from the special harness worn) that the dog is a service dog.

You don’t train service dogs by just taking them with you everywhere. You train them by taking them on planned trips to expose them to different scenarios. So you being unreasonable taking a dog everywhere and should be sticking to a training plan.

It really does depend what you mean by badly behaved and where you’re taking it. If you take it to a cafe and it starts barking like crazy the entire time, under people’s tables, weeing on the floor and eating people’s food then I would say no it’s not appropriate to take it to certain places yet.

So what have been the negative responses you have had?

I can understand their problem though as service dogs are usually well behaved which is part of the reason people tolerate them in what would normally be inappropriate places for dogs.

YANBU because she is a service dog in training. YWBVU if she was just your pet

Have you actually had many people respond badly to your dog, even when it’s clear she’s a young service dog in training? In my experience, people are very good and tolerant in these situations.

ETA: you also need to advocate for her and you. People get annoyed at owners who just do the naff “don’t worry, she’s harmless and friendly!” as their dog leaps up or raids their picnic. If you have her in working gear and say “I’m sorry about that, she’s young and still learning her job, sometimes all the excitement gets the better of her” and keep her firmly leashed rather than letting her continue causing havoc, you should get a positive response in return.

Absolutely nobody is including service dogs when they comment about dogs being everywhere, and I think everybody knows that.

If she is a service dog then she should have a harness/lead that displays that fact and there is no issue.

So can you get an official harness?

Sorry just seen she has one.

If people aren’t tolerant OP then that’s probably because they don’t know she is a service dog. The harness is a good idea.

taking a service dog to places with you is a different thing to taking a dog somewhere just because you want to.

Does she wear anything to show she's a service dog in training? Someone local to me trains guide dog puppies and the puppies wear a little "I'm a guide dog in training" sign on their harness.

If she’s trained via a charity and you’re having difficulties with her then can the charity help with further training?