re: Service dogs that are not really...

I'm pretty sure every dog is an emotional support animal. Pay $30 and that's a service dog

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Yes every post is about service dogs, I am a service dog handler. I get notifications of service dog stories, I got a notification from a thread on here awhile ago so I joined because there was a great deal of misinformation being given in it.

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i trust that you can see the misuse of the service animal program and how it impedes on other public patrons

What I see is that people take advantage of ignorance and apathy. The law gives businesses the tools to address fakes, but they don't bother to learn them or chose not to use them. In the cases where a business does what it is supposed to do, too often the media does an ill-informed report on it vilifying the business and the general public gets outraged despite knowing little about service animals and what the laws say and most of what they know is wrong.

these pieces of shite, usually fat asses, can get fake service dog paperwork online. then buy the harness


I got into it with a lady the other day, for jerking the frick out of the dog, which wasn't a service animal, and she was a fat piece of shite. Had my wife not pleaded with me to stop, i would of probably knocked the fat bitch out.

5 times she jerked that dog, like it was a piece of string and a ball at the end. 6th time i had, had enough and said shite to her and she had a vile, foul mouth, and right as i was going after her, my wife came up and said, please, will you let this go. She had tears in her eyes, and i had to give in. I tried to get the cops, who were called to take her dog, but they said they couldnt do shite.

Some stores put up with dogs in the store. it annoys the frick out of me though. Especially in a grocery store. Keep animals away from food stores.

Most of those service dogs are pure bullshite anyway unless you are blind or handicapped.

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ll fully admit right now that i’d fake a service dog certification for my dog.

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yeah, why do all of yall care so much about dogs in public

Think of it like when you are teaching someone something new, early on very attentive lots of instruction. At some point in the process you just observe and give minor corrections. It sounds like that is where they are at.

Training reinforcement is a never ending process for service dogs. Handlers are always looking to identify situations that they don't encounter frequently that they need to reinforce the training for. We rarely see other dogs, we were at a park with a friend who brought her little dog to get it exposed to a much larger dog. I wanted him in a down so the small dog could get used to him being there and he let out one whimper that he wanted to play. So over the next month one day a week I would go early to pick my son up from an activity so I could go to the park where people walk their dogs and reinforce his training to ignore other dogs. I would sit on a park bench reading and give minor corrections when needed.

Hope that all made sense and clears it up some for you.

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Legit trained service dogs can also be used for other medical conditions/handicaps.

Ex: Dogs to alert someone when they are about to have a seizure, dogs that can use their sense of smell to alert their owner their blood sugar is way too low or high. Dogs that help those in wheelchairs (such as a child with muscular dystrophy) for various things.

I love dogs but hate the bullshite abuse of “emotional” dogs. There is a legit need for trained service dogs and think those dogs are wonderful. Read up on these dogs. It is fascinating to read about the stuff they are trained to do.

But think dogs for “emotional support” is just a crock of shite and a way people get around taking their dogs everywhere. Only exception again being specially trained dogs for vets with PTSD.

Basically....if your dog isn’t specially trained....it isn’t legit imo.

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I was being extremely general in my post. Seriously, I have gone to a place in Atlanta.. Shepherd Center. I just had to go to get approval from the department that works with disabled people and teaching them to drive. I was already trained, but they had to give me approval. Anyway, they really do great work with people (for those who are aware of the Southern football player who was paralyzed in a game against Georgia, this is the place he has been that has been working on his recovery).

There is also a department that works with people when they first get their dog (I think the dog is trained first, then they go there, where they teach the person how to work with the dog). It's impressive to see what those dogs can do.

I didn't mean to not be sensitive to that situation..

What I meant, is more of what you are referring to. And yes, you worded it better.. If the dog isn't specially trained, it isn't legit. Of course, with that said, I don't know how to tell if a dog is or isn't a trained dog. This particular woman had a dachshund. Being uneducated on the issue, I would assume a dachshund isn't the type of dog that is trained to provide a service for someone, but then again, they do have a sensitive nose and I could see how they could use their sense of smell to alert their owner of something like low blood sugar, etc.

It take lot of self control for me not to pet the drug/bomb dogs at the airport. They really need to get ugly muts to do this instead of fluffy sweet golden retrievers.