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.
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.
As long as they don’t lick the Twizzlers, as one was doing in the drugstore. Of course community sympathy was all with the dog and not with me.
That’s really the part that bugs me. People who are ignoring or actually being rude to other humans fall all over themselves when a dog appears. That is sick.
And if you ever try to pet a seeing-eye dog, you are told, Not now, she’s working. If it’s not a real service dog, the owner adores all the attention.
NY state law does not deter these people from bringing their dogs into places that serve or sell food. If you point out the sign on the door, the next time you return the owner has taken the sign down.