fake service dogs

Onomea said:
I have an emotional support woman.

Travel with her pretty much always. And I'm her emotional support man. We tend to hang out together for our mutual emotional well being. Been doin' it quite a while, too.

So far, when traveling, no one's asked asked for proof of the emotional support legitimacy, but got a marriage certificate, somewhere...
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It's all good until you pee on the floor in Walmart.
 
Makes me wish i could use "therapy gun" as an excuse to open carry at work. Too many people buy the harness and label online and use it to take a pet wherever you want.
 
johngross said:
I'm not a lawyer, BUT...I work at Walmart (15+ years) and probably see more "service animals" in one day than many people see all year.

Basically, all a store employee can do is ask the customer if the animal is a service animal and if so, what task has the animal been trained to perform. If the customer says yes it's a service animal trained to do xxxx, end of discussion, even if the person is lying. No proof or documentation is required.

If the animal becomes aggressive while in the store or shows itself at some point not to be "house trained", you can tell the customer to remove the animal from the store and the customer can return to the store without the animal.

For the most part, stores (not just Walmart) don't say anything to the customer for fear of being sued.

And by the way, a therapy/comfort/emotional support animal is NOT a service animal and not protected by the ADA.

WOOF!!

Frequently Asked Questions about Service Animals and the ADA
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yea she found that out apparently since up until about 5 months ago the fleabag was a therapy/comfort/emotional support aminal. It has just been rebranded as a diabetic sniffer. Shoulda been rebranded as a yeast infection sniffer :mad:
 
My mother helps train service dogs. Friday she will get her 10th pup. In short, the dogs get weened from their mothers and sent to be trained by prisoners. When they're about 8 months to a year they go to live with people like my mother who socialize them by taking them out in public and after 6 months to a year they go in for their final "boot camp" and paired up with their human. Her "fosters" have been everything from PTSD dogs for veterans to diabetes detection dogs. One had so much energy he should have been a bomb sniffing dog but alas, he became a diabetes dog.

Anyways, a well trained dog should be practically invisible and react to almost nothing while out in public. We've gotten a few looks when we go to a restaurant. But the best looks are from people who came to the restaurant after we've been seated for a while and when we leave there is a sense of "holey moley" there's been a dog here the whole time! They had no clue and that is exactly as it should be.

Many people have legitimate needs for these animals and it really irks me when people abuse the system. For those who need emotional support to fly. Well, maybe that just means they should take the bus or drive themselves. Planes just aren't for you... Then there are the attention whores who just feel like their babies need to go everywhere with them.

I also can't stand those who feel the need to take their pets to outdoor concerts and the like. Yeah, I bet Rover really likes jazz. You know what I don't like, a dog **** in the grass while I'm enjoying some music.
 
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Not a Good Idea ...

Mule Packer said:
Hmmm. That just gave me an idea. I'm gonna see if I can get one of those "emotional support pet" jackets for my mule Scotty. Maybe I could get away with takin' him to church.:D
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I shortened the QUOTE.

NOT a GOOD IDEA!

Scotty would likely eat the green stuff in the collection plate.

Bekeart
 
When I see someone with a support dog I figure "good for you", they are letting us know there may be a problem we don't know about and no matter why I am glad they have a friend to help them - maybe!
 
When I worked security in a Federal building, if a person walked in with an animal, all I could ask was, "Is this a service animal connected with your disability?" I could NOT ask for proof of training, certificates, etc. I once had a girl come in with her support hedge hog. The hedge hog was much better behaved than the majority of the children that entered that office.

As in the Wal-Mart post, if the animal became aggressive, destructive or made a mess in the floor, the person was advised that he/she must remove the animal, but the person could return to the building.
 
I have, a couple times, gotten a tad ticked off at this myself. Mostly it involved poop in aisle 27 at Home Depot. I complained to the store manager, telling him I was deathly allergic to dogs. If the person has a legitimate service animal then I'll leave, but if it's just a con could you ask them to leave? Every retail manager is aware of this issue and they all have a policy to follow.

If the person can't produce proper documentation or explain why that's anything more than an Amazon vest then they have actually asked them to leave.

But I can be an unpleasant, cantankerous, confrontational individual at times. If you don't believe me, you can ask my wife! She likes it when I'm that way taking care of her stuff, not so much when I just go off.
 
I bumped into a woman at the post office the other day clutching a dog. She said, "He's my service dog."

Before I could say a thing, she ruined it saying, "And I'm his service human."
 
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