Posted on 10/12/2015 7:54:23 PM PDT by nickcarraway
I take it Tig is not a Great Dane.
yaeh, don't know about other states, but here in California:
. Q: How can I tell if an animal is really a service animal and not just a pet? A: Some, but not all, service animals wear special collars and harnesses. Some, but not all, are licensed or certified and have identification papers. If you are not certain that an animal is a service animal, you may ask the person who has the animal if it is a service animal required because of a disability. However, an individual who is going to a restaurant or theater is not likely to be carrying documentation of his or her medical condition or disability. Therefore, such documentation generally may not be required as a condition for providing service to an individual accompanied by a service animal. Although a number of states have programs to certify service animals, you may not insist on proof of state certification before permitting the service animal to accompany the person with a disability.
And this is why people can and do abuse the law. I have a ESA but would never consider taking him into a grocery, or clothing store. However after years of people taking their little yappers to Home Depot and no one stopping them I took my dog, no one had the balls to tell me to take my 140 pound puppy out and when an old fart with two aggressive little mutts started in on me I just said my dog hadn't eaten yet and he shut up and left.
Some rant. This bloke has never been to a pub lunch on Hampstead Heath.
I like Adam Carolla's rant on people bringing "emotional support" pets on airplanes and him being forced to sit next to them. He demands that he should be able to bring a "service pelican" ( named Gilligan) on the plane then.
Some of them are hearing dogs, some are seizure dogs, some are diabetes dogs and I am sure there are other tasks they are trained for.
The key here is "trained". A service dog is on the job and it shows. They are constantly focused on their job when they are out in public.
When they are not needed they are trained (there is that word again!) to sit quietly beside their human or to curl up under their chair if possible.
They are even trained to poop or pee on command.
Any sort of badly behaving dog is not a service animal.
Seeing-eye dogs are for the blind. Service dogs were realized they could help a good deal of people. For example, those with MS or ailments. Another example is actually for those veterans with PTSD. The therepeutical benefits of a service dog are insurmountable and have kept veterans from taking their own lives and cutting down on suicide rates.
The service dog to those wheel chair bound, veterans with PTSD or other ailments, other than being blind, goes far beyond a teddy bear.
By the way, dogs are no the only “service” animals out there. Service animals also include miniature horses. Service animals do have a viable function. However, those who pass off their animals in this capacity just gives service animals a bad name. True service animals should be looked at with more respect than you give them credit. And quite frankly your disregard of them is disrespectful to our veterans and their service animals who do more than just piss and crap all over.
If Caitlyne is a woman because he identifies as one, why can’t my cow identify as a service dog???
“in my neck of the woods no one would bring their black lab or blue healer into a store or restaurant”
You should see the weirdos near L.A. with their dogs. We used to go to a coffee shop in Agoura Hills where the ultra-affected Hollywood types would be at tables conspicuously reading movie “treatments”, sipping fru-fru drinks, and dogs by their side. It was entertaining, but ridiculous so we quit going. We were embarrassed for them — the people, not the dogs — because they were trying so hard to be noticed.
Thanks, but what caught my eye, is, that dog is driving a taxi —
I couldn’t have asked for a better response to my post!
LMAOPIMPWTIME
The author is Looney tunes as well.
I carried a 115 lb Rottweiler into a bar once, similarly.
She was 10 lbs at the time, and I was a regular at the bar. The place went quiet when they saw the puppy cruising in my jacket.
Even in Maine, I sometimes see people....usually women with kids....in the supermarket section of WalMart with a small dog in the shopping cart, lying on the area of a cart where a small child would usually sit.
I’ve seen this in other stores that don’t sell food as well.
It makes me wonder what the “emotional support pet person” would do if they got what they needed....namely, a hard slap across the face and the gruffly-worded admonition to “GROW UP!”.
Probably whimper loudly, drop to the floor and curl up in the fetal position, sucking their thumb.
LOL, it is hard to find the right context for that one!
To be fair, I don’t think that woman would have caught my eye...
She wears the oversized derriere better than most.
I think you are over-reacting to doorgunner69’s post. It didn’t seem to me the post was denigrating real service animals and the people who need them (such as real, disabled veterans) as much as otherwise healthy people who are dishonest enough to try to pass off their pets as service animals.
Just my 2-cents.
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