Service Animals

[Molalla1]

Therefore making it more difficult for people who genuinely need a service animal.

OTOH it's been a year and I still miss my service turkey... she would have gotten along well with my new service plant, cranberry.

Cranberry :licking: you need to keep your new service plant off my land! :laughing: It's a few miles anyway.

 

[drssg]

My dog is blind, so I'm his seeing eye person. He does pretty well though. Sometimes I swear he has some sort of Jedi sonar capability.

 

[bunyip]

Our last Chinese Crested was a service dog, he would escape from home and run into town and 'service' quite a few dogs in the couple of hours he was gone, there are some strange looking dogs walking around town that only a mother could love.

 

[goeduck]

Our last Chinese Crested was a service dog, he would escape from home and run into town and 'service' quite a few dogs in the couple of hours he was gone, there are some strange looking dogs walking around town that only a mother could love.

People are going to think there is an outbtpreak of mange in town :shocked:

 

[Diggin It]

I remember somebody that had a support Mole. She kept it on her upper lip in plain view. Think her name was Cindy. You may have seen her pictures.

 

[shooterdon]

It has gotten out of hand. Service dogs are great unless you are allergic to dogs and wind up next to one on a four hour flight I am slightly allergic to dogs but love them. I would not be upset with having one next to me to help out another person.

BTW, if someone comes onto a plane with a service chicken, I will ask that I be moved to first class as I am allergic to chickens...even though I am not. Same for a snake, pig, etc. if airlines cannot draw the line, we must. If you need a service snake, drive!!

 

[Jstpssng]

^^^^^^
If you need a service snake, see a psychologist.

 

[kf4uda]

^^^^^^
If you need a service snake, see a psychologist.

Exactly!

 

[Diggin It]

At some point in life most of us have needed a service snake at least once. They call themselves lawyers or attorneys though.

 

[Gem99ultra]

I detest people that claim their pet is a "Service Dog", when in fact, its only a pet. Not that I have anything against pets, I have a few myself and love them dearly, but a pet is NOT a Service Dog. Service Dogs should be properly trained and tested. Those $35 certificates that you can buy online are deceiving and have instantly destroyed the reputation of a Service Dog.

At one time I highly respected dogs that carried the title of Service Dog. In the recent past, it was always an owner that truly needed assistance for some disability that had a Service Dog. No longer. They're as common as Handicap Parking Permits these days. Its unfortunate that people abuse privileges for what should be reserved for those that truly needed assistance.

I'm with you k0ua! People that abuse the small privileges of the handicapped should themselves be treated with complete disrespect and disdain.

 

[Jstpssng]

On a more positive note... I was in Home Depot and just inside the entrance were two people with a young pup. Next to them was a sign saying “Service dog in training, please do not pet”, or words to that effect. As everybody walked past without stopping I remember thinking they were doing a pretty good job training people.

 

[k0ua]

At some point in life most of us have needed a service snake at least once. They call themselves lawyers or attorneys though.

That was a good one!..

 

[Hroller]

Anyone can go to some website and register anything they want... that has no legal standing at all, because that's not how Service Animals work, the only LEGAL Service Animals are miniature horses, and dogs. You can't have a cat as a Service Animal, or a Turkey, or a Goat... you CAN have those things as "Emotional Support Animals" and they don't have the same protections.

Personally I don't care if someone has their WELL BEHAVED dog in a restaurant or whatever, it doesn't bother me a bit... but if it's not well behaved, leave it home or get a sitter.

 

[Rebeldad1]

I can see myself in the future with a service dog. I really like the Budweiser one.

 

[EddieWalker]

My wife spent 30 days in the hospital when she was being treated for colon cancer. She was visited by service dogs twice and it was something that she greatly appreciated. We are very much in favor of service dogs.

We show dogs with AKC and are pretty active in the show dog world.

We feel that too many people are taking advantage of calling their dogs service dogs so they can bring them into stores with them. Bringing different animals onto an airplane and calling them service dogs is just ridiculous.

I applaud the guy who registered a bee hive to prove his point!!!

 

[CobyRupert]

I detest people that claim their pet is a "Service Dog", when in fact, its only a pet. .....
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I'm with you k0ua! People that abuse the small privileges of the handicapped should themselves be treated with complete disrespect and disdain.

They are abusing accommodations for truly handicapped people. They're like people with phony /unnecessary /selective handicap parking tags who use it to park 50' closer to the entrance (before they go inside and are somehow able to walk around a 7 acre mall)

 

[EarPlug]

My wife spent 30 days in the hospital when she was being treated for colon cancer. She was visited by service dogs twice and it was something that she greatly appreciated. We are very much in favor of service dogs.

Eddie - I beleive your wife was visited by a well trained Therapy Dog not a Service Dog. There is a difference.

A service dog is trained to help people with disabilities such as visual impairments, mental illnesses, seizure disorders, diabetes, etc. A therapy dog is trained to provide comfort and affection to people in hospice, disaster areas, retirement homes, hospitals, nursing homes, schools and more.Jul 10, 2017

https://www.caninejournal.com/service-dog-vs-therapy-dog-vs-emotional-support-dogs/

 

[ovrszd]

I am just glad I don't have to fly any more.

Me too James, me too.....

 

[Sigarms]

Worth the read IMO...

https://www.ada.gov/regs2010/service_animal_qa.pdf

Keep in mind it's not the federal government giving the leeway per the definition of a service aninal, but the states.

 

[EddieWalker]

Eddie - I beleive your wife was visited by a well trained Therapy Dog not a Service Dog. There is a difference.

A service dog is trained to help people with disabilities such as visual impairments, mental illnesses, seizure disorders, diabetes, etc. A therapy dog is trained to provide comfort and affection to people in hospice, disaster areas, retirement homes, hospitals, nursing homes, schools and more.Jul 10, 2017

https://www.caninejournal.com/service-dog-vs-therapy-dog-vs-emotional-support-dogs/

I'm sure that you are correct. That makes more sense.