Team Servicerottie🇨🇦🐕🦺🦽
@servicerotties • 91,774 subscribers
I'm Chesnyy, a Gov't qualified service dog in Canada. My job is taking care of my person, a bilateral amputee. I'm the successor to Kuno, disability spokesdog.
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Do you ride a bike? Or an e-scooter? Or walk a dog? If so, please take a second to read this. If you are on a bike or scooter on a shared pathway and approaching someone walking a dog, please be courteous and slow down a little. Especially if coming up from behind. I am a wheelchair user with a dog and we have way too many close calls with fast moving bikes and scooters. People not using a bell and whipping by within inches. If the dog turned it's head or stepped a bit wide, they'd be hit. I'll happily move as far to one side of the path as possible, and if I've got the younger dog who isn't as experienced around fast moving things, I'll stop at the very side and have him sit in front of me to give everyone as much space as possible. If I don't know you're approaching, I can't do that. So please, for the love of dog, use your bell. Don't wait until you're right behind someone with a dog. Use it while you're still at a distance, and if you aren't sure they noticed it, ring it a few more times. Give them as much time as possible to move to the side and prepare the dog. If it's a puppy or a dog that hasn't had much experience with bikes, being able to get them off the path or give them a little extra distance from the fast moving bike helps prevent them from getting scared. The vast majority of cyclists are great and really respectful, but there's always a few that aren't. This year the challenge is kids on e-scooters. They are going fast and having fun. Safety isn't at the forefront of their mind. They often don't use a bell or slow down at blind corners, and many don't think about giving the dog any space. I've been startled a few times by them so I can only imagine how the dog felt. This is one of the reasons why I do a lot of desensitization and counter conditioning. Dog owners-you need to do your part to. If you've got headphones on, make sure you can still hear the bike bell. Make sure to give the cyclist or scooter rider as much space as possible from your dog. And of course, unless you are on a designated off leash trail, keep your dog on a leash. If you have a puppy or a newly adopted dog that might not be comfortable around bikes, take some kibble or treats and go hang out with them near a multi use path. Let them watch. As the bike or scooter approaches, drop a few treats on the ground. For many dogs, this is all it takes, but if your dog is visibly stressed, fixated on the bike, or reacting, try moving a further from the trail and once they're comfortable at a slightly further distance, try closer again. If they are still stressed or fearful even with more distance, don't force the issue. Instead introduce them to a bike that isn't moving, and gradually work them up from there. If they are struggling, talk to a trainer. Regardless of if you are holding a leash, riding a bike or scooter, or enjoying a walk outdoors, just be respectful. And of course, be safe. Thanks, Admin 🎥 Puppy walk for cuteness
Team Servicerottie🇨🇦🐕🦺🦽15,459 views • 8 days ago
Many rescues, shelters, and breeders have already decided that a human with a disability can't handle a high-drive or working breed dog like me... They see a wheelchair or a cane and simply say no. Sometimes they do the same thing to seniors. While not every person in their 70s is fit and highly active, some are. Most wheelchair users aren't as experienced with dogs and have ways to ensure our needs are met, but some , like mine are. Blanket policies that don't look at the individual are common and they are keeping some truly pawsome teams apart! 🐾 But check out this power wheelchair dog walk proof! I'm briskly trotting sidewalks and paths like a pro, then off-leash grass chaos — rolling, spinning, and bouncing with full zoomie energy! We've been proving them wrong every day: I get all my high-drive needs met (zoomies included!), demo tricks in classes, tackle adventures together, and my human's power chair keeps right up, sometimes even leading the chase to the best smells. High-drive Rottie? Handled with style! It's time for more open minds out there. Disability doesn't mean "can't do dogs". It just means creative, determined, and extra-fun partnerships. The right team can handle anything! Who's with me on this? Drop a 🐾 if you agree! 🦽🐶❤️ #ServiceDogLife #OpenMinds #ProveThemWrong
Team Servicerottie🇨🇦🐕🦺🦽14,557 views • 9 days ago
🐶First he bit my tail, then he tried to steal my spot on the couch, and then he used my face as a punching bag for his murder mittens. 🐾 He still doesn't realize I could torpedo his little ham sized body off the couch with one quick paw smack. But I don't because I'm a good girl and Santa is watching.🎄 Goodness knows, I'll need him to replace some of my stuff the potato with teeth has annihilated. #HeKnowsIfYouveBeenGood Video description for inclusivity: Chesnyy the Servicerottie lays on the couch with Baby Kenji He bats her face and nibbles on it. She licks him back.
Team Servicerottie🇨🇦🐕🦺🦽133,082 views • 7 months ago
When I was a pup I had no idea my human was disabled. I just thought she was extra special because she rolled around everywhere instead of walking like average people. Now I understand she has a disability. But she's still extra special to me. And together we're amazing. ❤️🐾❤️ 🎥 Us doing our thing #XDogs #Rottweiler #Disabilities #DogLove
Team Servicerottie🇨🇦🐕🦺🦽10,650 views • 12 days ago
Every year we hunt Easter Eggs! It's my absawoofly favorite holiday activity! This year Bernoulli and Beaker from Bunsen, Beaker, Bernoulli & Brix came out to try. Bernoulli did great but it was Beaker's time to shine. That girl is a natural and was hunting eggs like she'd done this all her life! My little brother Kenji did very well considering he's just a baby. It was windy and between blowing leaves and the scary flapping plastic bag, it was a lot for his brain. Thankfully he didn't start barking in his young Justin Bieber voice and embarrass me. My pals Cloe_Bear and Detective Dug 🇨🇦 came out again this year. The 3 of us are pro level egg hunters. We could do this every single day and never get bored. Our only complaint was that we only got to find a dozen eggs each. We want more next year. A big bonus was the cold wind would have made wearing silly rabbit ears impossible. They'd have blown across the parking lot so we didn't have to do the boring stuff and could focus on treats. Best Easter Ever!!! 🎥 Highlights of our egg hunt #EasterEggHunt #Nosework #DogLife
Team Servicerottie🇨🇦🐕🦺🦽52,469 views • 3 months ago
It was Canada Day today and that's a holiday here. But instead of getting the day off to go play tag with my friends or going on a tour of the local fire hydrants, I got stuck babysitting my baby brother. He doesn't realize he's too big for me to actually drag around anymore. 🎥 Me and my giant baby brother #DogProblems #RottieSiblings #BigPaws
Team Servicerottie🇨🇦🐕🦺🦽10,293 views • 17 days ago
🐾There wasn't much sleep last night. The little man serenaded us with puppy classics like "I don't want to sleep in the puppy pen", "Where's my. momma and brothers and sisters" and of course "I pooped and stepped in it". So I made a few woofs and bounced around and it seemed to quiet him. 💤 But morning potty time sure came early and now Kenji has a few complaints about the scheduling of breakfast. I sure hope he wants a nap soon! #KenjiTalks #TheKenjiAndChesmyyShow Video description for inclusivity: a tiny Rottweiler puppy bounces around on a couch. Chesnyy lays on the floor nearby. He barks at her.
Team Servicerottie🇨🇦🐕🦺🦽78,303 views • 7 months ago
When your baby brother who's literally the size of a cooked Christmas turkey thinks he’s the boss of the house, but you’re a 100lb “please, make better choices” machine💪🐾 I was literally just standing there, vibing, existing in peace. This tiny menace comes flying in for a surprise chomp — one casual paw swipe and I accidentally yeeted him across the room like he was a curling rock on ice. He pops back up like a jack-in-the-box on steroids, charges for the full-body slam — hits me and bounces off like a tennis ball off a garage door. I give him the gentlest “kindly fluff off” correction known to dogkind — he flops, rolls over, and immediately pulls the Academy Award victim routine: big eyes, dramatic sigh, “why meeee?” The human steps in and sends us across the room and suggests we meditate as our antics are interrupting her Christmas baking marathon. Does the little terrorist reflect? Nope. He spends the next forever barking pure disrespect as he follows me around: “Old lady!” “Grandma!” “You’re too slow, fossil!” So I stroll over, pick up HIS holy tug rope (the one he’d fight a bear for), and just… hold it. Nice and high. Zero effort. Kenji absolutely loses his marbles. Popcorn jumps, helicopter spins, grunt-screaming like he’s trying to start a lawnmower, tiny Scrappy Doo legs paddling the air, tongue flapping like a flag in a hurricane. He clamps on, pulls with every ounce of his dramatic little soul…Rope doesn’t even twitch. I’m over here daydreaming about treats while he slowly melts into a sweaty, panting heap of defeated puppy. Moral of the story, Kenji: Keep testing Big Sis and you’ll keep collecting these free, gentle life lessons in glorious 4K. Love you anyway, rutabaga gremlin. #Servicerottie #RottweilerLife #BigSisterEnergy #KenjiTheMenace #TugOfWarFail #SiblingShenaniigans #InterwoofComedy 🎥 Evidence of the fluff I put up with
Team Servicerottie🇨🇦🐕🦺🦽67,390 views • 6 months ago
🐾woke up to this 10-lb potato breaking into my bed, he kissed my entire face like i’m his girlfriend, booped me (bold) and smacked my paws, then looked me dead in my soul, stole my dragon, and left!😲 I weigh 90 lbs. he is literally a chicken nugget. I'm being robbed by a nugget!! 🐾 send help or more dragons, idk 🐲 #ChesnyyChronicles #TinyTerrorist #Kenji
Team Servicerottie🇨🇦🐕🦺🦽74,576 views • 7 months ago
"Chesnyy! Help!" is my cue to jump into action, sprint to my human, and pick up whatever she dropped. Things like pens, forks, the phone, even the toilet paper roll. She's kinda clumsy so I'm extremely well practiced. Despite that, sometimes I think she intentionally waits until I'm napping in the sunny porch, and then intentionally drops something just to video my retrieval. 🎥 Footage stolen from my human's phone #ChesnyyWorks #Servicerottie
Team Servicerottie🇨🇦🐕🦺🦽11,264 views • 24 days ago
🚨 Breaking News🚨 🔊 After intense discussions, at 5:40a.m. Saturday, June 13th, I successfully negotiated the Ice Cream Treaty🍦 which requires at least 1 walk/week from now until mid September will include a stop for ice cream, and humans are required to surrender at least 5 licks of ice cream and the cone to their canine partner. 🐾 🎥 The attached video of the deliberations provides all the details including stiff penalties for non compliance. Please listen carefully. #DogNews #IceCreamTreaty #Negotiations #SendTreatsNotNapkins
Team Servicerottie🇨🇦🐕🦺🦽15,276 views • 1 month ago
It finally happened!!! My very own pupcup from Starbucks Canada! I've had homemade versions, and a couple of times I was allowed the last few licks of a friend's, but I've never actually been to a Starbucks before. We stopped on our morning WalkNRoll. I had to eat it outside because I'm enthusiastic about fluffy stuff. 🤭 And my human functions way better with caffeine! What a great start to my day!!! 🎥: Me. Making whipped cream disappear. #Pupcup #Servicerotties #AGreatDayToBeMe
Team Servicerottie🇨🇦🐕🦺🦽15,259 views • 1 month ago
🫎 🪿 The sky had just turned light when my baby brother, Kenji the Mooseweiler, decided to wake up the household by holding his stuffed goose in his mouth and honking it. Over and over. And Over. I opened one sleepy eye to see him standing there proudly honking away like he was performing the National Anthem at a sporting event. I could have happily slept until much closer to breakfast time, but nooooo. Because the oversized Pork Roast's honking woke humans, he was taken outside for a ridiculously early potty break. And humans seem to think when one dog needs to go out, all dogs need to go out. The humans think wrong. I did not need to go out. What I needed was to resume my dream of staying at a luxury resort where I was in the pool doggy paddling my way to the swim up cheese bar. 🧀 Instead I was expected to get up and head outside to keep Kenji company while he did his morning business. I reluctantly rose from my super comfy bed and did the obligatory big stretch, which was NOT EVEN ACKNOWLEDGED!! Then I headed outside where the honker was waiting for me. I went directly into the potty area, squatted and did my business promptly like a good girl. Kenji did 17 laps sniffing the yard, tripped over the pool and nearly fell in it, and then finally lifted a leg on a tree. Another 17 laps and he squatted his moose caboose and did the other part of his business. It was obvious this wasn't an urgent potty situation and that we both could have continued our peaceful slumbers for at least another hour. Because he was taking so long the human had to come outside and do a welfare check. Once she determined we were both present and still alive, she thought it would be fun to work on teaching baby rottie Kenji to give me hugs. Once again she thought wrong. It was not fun. For the right price I'll happily put a paw around him. However I absawoofly do not want his giant clumsy clownpaws randomly smacking me as he tries to figure out where to put them. To make it even more insulting, after the uncoordinated chaos goblin played whack-a-mole on my head, I discovered the human had no treats!! And do you think breakfast was served early when we went back inside? Nope. Not a single morsel. I am now going to nap until I hear the sound of food. And if I hear the sound of Kenji honking that goose, I will repossess it and skillfully extract it's squeaker. 🪿😴 🎥 Feeble hug attempts #HonkingRottie #GooseWakeUpCall #MooseWithGoose #ChesnyyWantsSleep #SendTreatsNotGeese
Team Servicerottie🇨🇦🐕🦺🦽18,884 views • 1 month ago
Today I went with the humans to get the keys to our new home! The house that love bought!❤️ It was my first time in it. I found the front ramp and checked out the kitchen. The fridge spits ice if you push it with your nose!!! But the best part is the ramp to the backyard! It's not a big yard, but big enough for zoomies and ball!!!! The next few days are gonna be busy. We need to finish packing. Move stuff. There's some adaptations that we still need to do to like taking some doors off until they get widened, and maybe making the kitchen more functional for a wheelchair. We didn't stay long today. Just long enough to measure some things and have a good play. We have a lot to do the next few days. The movers are coming Saturday! Video description for inclusivity: Chesnyy in front of her new home, going up a ramp and through a door, checking out the kitchen and looking out windows, then running down a ramp and playing in a yard.
Team Servicerottie🇨🇦🐕🦺🦽85,572 views • 11 months ago
Admin Post; Tonight I started shaping a "Place" on a mat with Kenji. As soon as I put the mat down he sniffed, I clicked and tossed a treat. When he came back, he walked right onto it, I clicked and tossed the treat. And then grabbed my phone because I wanted to capture this. He gave me multiple reps of coming to the mat and retrieving the treat within the first few minutes. He had it figured out so fast. I keep these sessions short. Especially with puppies. I lost his focus a bit because he found a stay treat, but we got it back and he offered the behavior of going to the mat. Multiple times. Tomorrow we'll do a couple reputations and I'll add the cue. It's always amazing to work with a puppy like this. The kind that figures things out so fast. Free shaping has the dog figure out what to do by the timing of the click. I only introduced the clicker yesterday for about 4 minutes. In one session he's doing what took 2-3 sessions with pups 6 weeks older. I suppose I shouldn't be surprised. He comes from a line of top obedience dogs. He's going to be so much fun to train!! #MensaPuppy #ProdigyPup Video description for inclusivity: Kenji, a young Rottweiler puppy walks onto a mat. He hears a click and stops and then a treat is tossed. The pattern is repeated multiple times with him settling into sits on the mat.
Team Servicerottie🇨🇦🐕🦺🦽59,568 views • 7 months ago
🔊 Rottweilers are supposed to have a big bark, and we're well known for our "Rottie Rumble" that we use in play or instead of an overdramatic sigh. But not Baby Rottie Kenji. He has decided to sound like a goose! Or maybe he swallowed one and it's trying to get out. Is he turning into a MooseGooseweiler? This is going to be sooo embarrassing when we go out and instead of barking he honks! Honk if you love dogs? 🪿❤️🐾 #KenjiNeedsAVocalCoach #GooseInRottieClothing #HonkIfYouLoveMe
Team Servicerottie🇨🇦🐕🦺🦽13,748 views • 1 month ago
The human wanted us to pose for a cute picture. I understood the assignment. My baby brother, the oversized Pork Roast with clown feet, obviously did not. The human is now mumbling something about us not having our 💩 in a group. 🎥 Attempting to sit beside each other with a paw around my brother's shoulder #RottieLife #Outtakes #FamilyPhoto #SuperModelProblems
Team Servicerottie🇨🇦🐕🦺🦽16,120 views • 1 month ago
Baby Rottie Kenji was a tired Mooseweiler after an epic game of Tug & Tag followed by practicing his scent detection. So tired he didn't even realize the human had dropped a piece of wiener in front of his snoot. Even when he briefly woke up! Maybe he thought the smell was part of his dream? 🎥 Sleepy Kenji and the wiener Retweet if you think he's adorable. #SleepyPuppy #RottieLife #puppydreams
Team Servicerottie🇨🇦🐕🦺🦽10,242 views • 29 days ago
Kenji, the baby Mooseweiler, is learning to be comfortable with a muzzle. He isn't aggressive or likely to bite someone, so why do we do this? Emergency preparedness. If he's ever seriously injured the vet clinic will likely muzzle him as soon as they take him into the back. Even the gentlest of dogs with the best temperaments might become fearful and bite if they are in pain and someone tries to exam their injury. Especially if it's a stranger or they already have negative feelings about vet clinics. Even something as straightforward as a torn nail can be painful enough that a muzzle is used. Putting the muzzle on allows the veterinary team to quickly and safely examine the dog, perform first aid, or start an IV for sedation if needed. If a dog has never worn a muzzle, it can add to the stress and fear they are already experiencing from being restrained and examined while being in pain, especially if they try to resist having it put on. It's much easier on the dog and the veterinary team if the dog is comfortable with wearing a muzzle. If the dog has had a lot of positive conditioning with the muzzle it can actually help calm them as it's something familiar with good emotions attached. Anytime I can help my dogs avoid unnecessary stress, I'll do it. Muzzle training is one way and it helps ensure we're prepared for emergencies. Often when someone sees a dog wearing a muzzle, they assume the dog is aggressive. That's often not the case. It could simply be wearing it during training to get comfortable with it or it might be a dog that eats things off the ground. It could also be a responsible owner of a fearful dog that might snap if an unleashed dog rudely runs up. A muzzle doesn't mean a dog is bad. It's often the sign of a good dog owner. #XDogs #PuppyTraining #Muzzles 🎥 Kenji learning to voluntarily put his head into a muzzle
Team Servicerottie🇨🇦🐕🦺🦽13,457 views • 1 month ago