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[hennible]

Not easy enough to read.

 

[Peep_Show]

Actually, there was an article awhile ago about somebody's service pig. It was for a woman's stress condition and a lawsuit followed because she wasn't allowed to take it on an airplane with her. My courtroom clerk and I were having a good laugh about it and throwing about lines like "I am SO stressed out. Come here and let me scratch your hairy back." Little did we know that the lead sheriff was standing in the doorway on that last remark, fresh off his sensitivity training session. He just walked away shaking his head and muttering.....

 

[Peep_Show]

Hey, I never claimed I was pc.

 

[Alaskan]

pc is barfy

 

[vehve]

Being overtly pc is another form of discrimination in my opinion. If a relationship is so fragile that a racist joke can bring it crashing down, then it wasn't a very stable relationship to begin with. Besides, telling racist jokes about a minority to that minority when you're not a part of it yourself is great fun just for the reactions.

 

[LindaB220]

I just saw 1 of my neighbors in walmart. He had his dog with him. Apparently he bought a harness thingy for handicapped working dog. He had on dark glasses. He was in sporting goods section looking at fishing hooks...

Bahahahaha Do you think they bought it?

 

[vehve]

Bama, you should throw tennis balls at blind kids' faces just to check if they're really blind.

 

[tridentk9]

BAMA are you taking the neighbor's dog shopping again?  A lot of stores allow people in with "Questionable"  service dogs, because  they have been sued, for turning away legitimate ones.  Certainly a shopper wearing DARK  GLASSES,  must be legit.

In the US there are two legal questions a business can ask: Is that your Service Dog ?
What tasks has the dog been trained to do (that mitigate your disability) ?

However behavior that alters the business; barking, jumping on other people, not housebroken, etc can (should) lead to refusing access to the dog. Doesn't always work that way though.

ADA revised the Service Dog rules and definitions a few years ago. A Service Dog must be a dog except that miniature horses can be used in certain circumstances. Pigs, snakes, cats, etc are no longer Assistance Animals under ADA. Individual states can have other regs. Flying however does not fall under ADA but under Air Carrier Access Act (ACAA) and has some different rules.

Hearing Dogs are usually smaller dogs. A lot of dogs for low/high blood sugars are small. Sigh- and a lot of the fakers that I see are smaller dogs with poor manners.

While I'm not blind my Service Dog usually wears a harness and because I can't always tolerate flourescent lights I typically wear sunglasses in stores.

 

[hennible]

Holy cow it took awhile for me to figure out what PC meant.... Politically correct right

 

[vehve]

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Ideally, I don't think there should ever have to be a situation where a business would have to ask any of those questions, only in the case of such behavior as you've described do I think it's okay. Faking that your dog is a service animal is something a person should deserve to be heavily fined for, I think it's disgraceful.