I am allergic to stupid

Up at Columbus over the weekend, and on Saturday, Casey’s GF Melissa said we should go look at free puppies. So we did. The woman in charge of the free puppy display was talking about one she took in not long ago, its health problems and how she took care of it. “Now,” she said, “it’s being trained as a gluten-alert dog.”

Gluten-alert dog. What does it do, snatch bread from the hands of hungry children?

From search for “gluten allergy dog.”

Fish odor allergy. “My employer requires disability paperwork before they will decide if they will tell fellow employees to stop brining fish to work.” (What about possible fish odors on clothing? Will the allergy victim then have those clothes banned and/or destroyed?)

Home schooled. “Hi, our daughter is six years old. You don’t offer any service animals for younger children? Our daughter is currently homeschooled because her allergist feels it’s too dangerous for her to go to school. I believe a service dog might open the possibility of going to school, if she were able to have one with her. She has life threatening allergies to peanuts, tree nuts, milk, soy, wheat and eggs.”

(Next, of course, is having the school ban all those things.)

(There also was a letter from a parent who recently moved into a peanut-growing area, and she complained because her son is allergic to peanuts. Here’s your card.)

(More searches turned up sites related to dogs with allergies to gluten, peanuts, milk, whey, etc. and etc. So do those dogs qualify for an allergy-detecting dog, or maybe an allergy-detecting human?)