Posted on 06/30/2015 9:23:58 AM PDT by Citizen Zed
People who try to sneak their pets into restaurants, airplanes and other public places by claiming they are specially trained service animals could face 60 days in jail under a Florida law taking effect on Wednesday.
Judges also under the law could make the pet owners spend a month working with organizations serving people with real disabilities.
"I love my cat," Florida state Representative Jimmy Smith, a Republican who sponsored the legislation, said on Tuesday. "But I'm not taking my cat everywhere I go."
Smith said some pet owners are abusing the Americans with Disabilities Act by putting a guide dog harness or insignia on their animals and taking them into places that normally bar animals.
Pet owners can easily obtain service animal vests and registration documents, even for untrained pets, by sending as little as $75 to otherwise legitimate training facilities.
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He wasn't that upset, but he did go speak to the family, the man got mad and the manager relented.
SO, lesson to myself. DO NOT STAY IN A PET FRIENDLY HOTEL. Not only do I dislike animals in my house or where I sleep and/or eat. DOGS rub their butts on the carpets, often. Think on that one for a second. The same carpet you walk barefoot on, the same carpet you let your kids play on....
It’s big in Florida because a lot of the condos and homes in the many beach areas there do not allow pets, unless service animals.
Somebody gets it. My brother has a Border Collie. She converts from a frizbee monster to a perfectly behaved service dog when the vest comes out. They take the dog everywhere. He gets comments on the perfect behavior all the time.
Most Colorado restaurants and motels welcome customers with dogs.
Some people have allergies. We do not allow pets, even our own, in our mountain cabin. This keeps the place fur free for anyone who has allergies.
“But, but my 110 lb. Great Dane is a trained psychic protection and love providing animal. Horrors!! Does this mean I can’t take him on a crowded single class, a.k.a., sardine squashed, regional jet with me??”
Only allowed if he sits in your lap.
You gave me a great idea.
New vests with ‘SPOUSE’ emblazoned.
It’s coming.
Hey, doctors hand out the cripple tags the same way. I see ppl dancing into stores who have parked in the cripple spots with the tags. Fine these sumbitches!!
“but there was a fear of this getting way out of control...with hundreds of people intimidating management to allow their pets into the facility.”
I think dogs should be allowed in most office work environments. The suits need to be brought down to earth. Dogs are the ideal tools for doing exactly that.
That is my fatwa.
-PJ
Good.
I am sick of seeing animals, particularly DOGS, walking around Winn-Dixie and Publix stores.
Someone recently brought one into a health club where I was working out.
Ridiculous.
“The manager agreed with me, but told me that he claimed it was a service dog, and they are not allowed to question if someone makes that claim.”
So I could cut the tail off my Guide gator, paint him brown and claim he is my service dog?
You have to have a handicapped placard to park in handicapped spots. Why not have these animal with a special tag on their leash the same way? Why are they so fragile they don’t have to prove their animal is a service dog?
Does this mean I have to leave my “Gouging-Eye” Badger at home?
My impression was that you could take him in, as is, and claim he is your service gator - and they would not question it.
Why cut the tail off the animal and paint it?
Just tell anyone who questions you: “Sure, he LOOKS like a gator, but he IDENTIFIES as Chesapeake Bay Retriever, so you must treat him as such or YOU are a bigot”.
Hide it in your pant leg......
Certified Flight Bacon Service Pig
My 10-year-old son can make change (when he doesn't overthink it), and my 8-year-old daughter isn't far behind - she's real good at spending her allowance (and mine, for that matter), not so good at accounting for it yet.
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