re: Question about service dogs on planes

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Take a Claritin and suck it up.

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If you need an animal to go out out in public (other than a blind person), you should probably find some medication or stay at home.

Most dogs flying are probably emotional support dogs with BS credentials to avoid the extra fees.

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Neither of them have to have any training. However the laws governing service dogs do not apply to therapy dogs in most states. Service dogs have national access to public places, therapy dogs do not.

Therapy dogs are by far the least trained of the two and are a lot of the time just normal pets. They aren't trained to perform any tasks or services for the owner besides companionship. This one is abused far more often than service dogs.

To be a true service dog, that dog has to be able to perform a task or service for its owner that has an ADA disability. Standard examples are seeing eye or seizure alert. Business owners can inquire if the dog is necessary for a disability and what services that dog performs for that disability, but that is pretty much it.

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You are a confused about the terminology. There are 3 types of dogs that commonly get mixed up.

Service dogs are trained to perform a task for their disabled handler, allowed public access with their handler by the ADA and Rehab Act.

Emotional Support Animals mitigate their owner's disability by their presence, comfort. Allowed in no pet housing by the FHA and on airlines by the ACAA.

Therapy dogs are pets that are trained and certified by an organization so that their owner may take them into hospitals, rest homes, libraries, etc, with the facilities permission, in all other ways they are treated the same as pets. Look up Therapy Dogs International for more info on them.

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This service animal shite is getting out if control. I completely understand when a dog assist a blind or deaf person, maybe someone who's in a wheel chair but the "comfort" animals are a freaking joke. This is nothing more than giant pussies who think they can't live without the a dog/cat/ect. What do they think is going to happen when the animal dies? A whole new set of hilarity ensues. The last cruise I went in there were at least 5 dogs on the boat. One of which was pushed in a baby stroller and dressed up. What the frick is that? It will come to a head eventually and these babies are going to be told they are SOL. Can't come soon enough.

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Sir, I'd like to have a beer with you. Excellent post. 150% truth.

Is this a sequel to snakes on a plane?