The problem is so many people abuse the idea of guide dogs. Used to be the only dogs in public places allowed were legit guide dogs for the blind. Now every pet owner feels entitled to bring their dog antwhere.
This is in the UK not the US. In the US a business prohibiting a real service animal would face fines and lawsuits.
Agree. Over the years, accommodations for guide dogs have morphed into abuse of the allowance for service animals, including pigs, parrots and reptiles. Animal vests declaring “emotional support” are widely available on Amazon. Airlines and other public facilities eventually got wise to the free-ride deception.
Ifeel I have rights too...the right to enjoy anice restaurant meal without the smell of animals.
the fakers have 4uined it for legitimately disabled people.
Just as handicap parking spots used to be for people in a wheelchair. Now EVERYONE has a temporary placard. A completely abused service...
Here in Seattle, the legal justification for pets in formerly forbidden places began about 10 years ago, with mental health Companionship exemptions.
Mental Health professionals prescribe the companionship of a pet as a necessary treatment for various mental health issues.
Those prescriptions have the force of law - thus, dogs are everywhere, even in apartment buildings that previously forbade pets.
“Support” animals.
smh
Yes - one woman I spoke to had her dog near a hot buffet at a grocery store and said ti was against the law for them to deny her to bring in her dog. I told her there was a big difference between an actual guide dog and an ‘emotional support animal’.
She mad.
BINGO! You posted it before I could.
A few months back I was walking in a Walmart and discovered a pile of dog crap on the floor. I got an employee to take care of it, and they were already aware of it and kicked the dog owner out of the store. It was just someone who thought they were privileged enough to bring in their dog. A presumed democrat voter.
Certain disabled people need these dogs to better their lives. I suspect these dogs are very well trained as to not crap all over the place at will.
I’m sick of dogs in restaurants and bars. Pretty disgusting actually. I’d have no problem with an actual service dog but not people who bring any dog or dogs with them.
I also blame the businesses for allowing it.
Yes I like dogs..big dogs not wanna be ankle biters that are nothing more than cats that bark.
A relative was living in Germany some years ago who I visited. The Germans didn’t care if you brought a dog into a restaurant if it was well behaved. I doubt it was all restaurants, but it doesn’t seem to me there a health code denying it..
Exactly. These people who must have their little doggy everywhere with them are the reason. Spend $50 on a Service dog vest and call it good. Now you too have a service dog.
At the airport the other day I saw a lady with a huge dog. I’d be beyond upset if I was forced to share an already cramped row with her stupid dog.
Buy a dog, you also buy the responsibility to do something with it when you’re not home. Bringing the little cur with you everywhere isn;t the option.
I read the article-this is a seeing-eye-dog, a guide dog for the blind. I presume he has a harness on the dog. When I see a blind person with a dog, they always have an unmistakeable harness, not a leash or a rope..
I agree with you 100%. People with Seeing-Eye Dogs should be given the highest latitude and leeway in all circumstances. If you are allergic or simply don’t like dogs, suck it up.
And I have nothing but contempt for people who take their “support animals” with them everywhere they go.
I don’t give a crap how much they try to justify it. It is a sign of someone who is mentally ill and needs help at best, an an ass-whipping at worst, not an animal they can take anywhere.
And the people who buy the “support animal” harness at a pet store so they can take it in hospitals, restaurants, or travel conveyances, those people are simply disgusting. And I think they are the reason we see issues of denial to people who have a valid need. Those people are
If I am ever an observer and I see service being denied to someone with a real disability, I am 100% going to step in for them and advocate for them.
Then those same degenerates take their mutts into the grocery and put those filthy animals in the grocery cart.
Then, when they're gone, Susie Homemaker comes in and puts her family's food in the same carts, buys her groceries, sacks are in her cart, takes the food home, puts the sacks on the counter where she prepares the food........
Agree so many take them into food store sit them in a the cart and they why and they say oh it’s a service dog so I tell not it isn’t no sign on it so it’s just a flea tick and lice transporter.
They need to carry papers to do such an act it’s unhealthy for them to be in a food store.
People see a dog dumping and pissing they don’t even call for a manager.
The problem is Muslims