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The situation appears to be over for now, except for the monetary settlement.

I have not met Verasce yet (will this Saturday) but my fellow GSROC volunteer and Freeper tells me he is people, dog, and cat friendly but not trained. The disabled person was not in a position to train him so that’s why he decided to surrender him.

The landlord will have fun collecting the monetary award as he can't touch Soc Sec. You don't have to have limb use to train a small dog like you do a larger one. Like I said my wife {was a quad} and trained her dog herself. Most things the dog picked up on her own like my cell phone ringing because she's hear the vibrate mode before it rang. When you see a response you want them to repeat simple praise works. She taught the dog to bark for me by simply yelling for me. The dog expected me to come in when she yelled my name. If I didn't the dog barked until I did LOL. It worked.

If someone calls me and I'm asleep the dog gets on my chest grabs the sheets and shakes them growling then I hear the phone start ringing. The dog though heard the vibration mode begin first and started alerting me.

A German Shepherd is too big for mainly inside a house but a Toy Ratty is content to stay inside except for the 4-5 times a day trips out to do their business. I've left my dog nearly 10 hours before no damage done when I got home.

I'm physically able to do for myself so if the dog wakes me up or barks that someone is outside I already have weapon in hand before that person can get out of their vehicle.

I understand companion dog rules can be abused but with a small dog I think a landlord would have a very difficult time winning any litigation in the case of a quadriplegic.

My ex-SIL from my first marriage ended up confined to a wheelchair. She had a small trained monkey LOL.