Posted on 05/27/2018 1:20:10 AM PDT by EinNYC
Im against the people that use them for fake reasons.
That’s exactly how I feel. People using them for fake or flimsy reasons will actually end up hurting people that need such animals for real reasons.
My daughter had 2 roommates that had `service animals. One was totally fake.
The other was for her roommate that had autism that was legit. The dog and her roommate went through 3 months of training. I don’t know what the do was trained to do to help her roommate. I do know it was very well trained as well as her roommate. My daughter could not play with that dog. The dog was always by her roommates side. It never barked or got unruly.
The other roommate with the fake service animal was the total opposite. Terrible owner with an untrained dog.
We were dog-sitting DD’s college friend’s elderly retriever. She had been at our house for about a week so she wasn’t our dog at all. She started to fuss at supper time. We went into the living room to see if she needed out — but we found DS2 in a full-blown seizure. He was crunched up in a position that was cutting off his air. We laid him out on the floor until it passed.
If that wonderful dog had not alerted us we are sure he would have died.
We already told DD if that dog ever needs a new home we will roll out the red carpet for her.
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