Pitbulls are the ferals friends.
This is maddening. They should fine the guy and take his dog and put it down. I can’t stand they can’t do anything with these idiot pitbull owners who won’t at least muzzle their damn dog out in public.
I’m glad the blind man’s service dog was okay.
The ADA has been so abused that it needs to be modified. Any person with a “service animal” should be ready to show proof more than “I need Fifi to make me feel secure”.
This “service dog” scam has gone on long enough. A blind guy needs a service dog. Otherwise, don’t give me your sob story.
This is why I have a Killer Whale for a service animal.
I have pernicious dandruff and he brushes the flakes off.
Or he eats them.
The regulations on service animals need to be a lot more restrictive. A lot of bozos bring pets onto planes and trains, claiming they’re needed to calm them or for some other bogus psychological reason. These untrained animals can and do cause problems for other passengers and the few real service animals that have a legitimate reason to be there. The owner of this pit bull should be jailed.
Jail for the idiot human.
OOoo boy, 2 problems I have in this story.
PBTs, and the service-dog nonsense.
Most of these “service dogs” obviously have 0 obedience training, much less special work they do. Any dog that has no basic obedience manners (i.e., personal restraint) obviously cannot possibly be a service dog.
Sometime soon there is going to be a crackdown on this “fake” service animal scam. There are too many people doing it and having an animal that isn’t trained enough to control itself is going to hurt someone.
More “gentle” pit bulls. What bull.
Pitbulls have no place in public.
A beautiful German Shepherd. Glad to see, and glad not really hurt.
A friend of mine had his small dog crippled by a pit bull. He was walking his dog on a leash in the park and an unleased pit bull ran up and latched onto the small dog’s hind quarters and almost killed the poor thing.
The police said there was nothing they can do... a fact that infuriates me beyond words.
If I regularly walked a dog I would carry bear spray. I’m not talking about plain old pepper spray, I’m talking about $60-a-can bear spray. And if a pit bull attacked my dog I wouldn’t stop spraying the SOB until the can was empty.
You don’t hear much anymore about that poor woman in SF that was basically torn limb-from-limb by two monstrous presa canario with weirdo owners who had nefarious connections to violent felons in pelican bay.
“makes it illegal for anyone to require special identification for a service anima or ask for the service animal to demonstrate the tasks it’s trained to do.”
ILLEGAL.
Oh, heavens we should make anyone prove anything.
“So many people lie about it that it ruins it for those of us that have a legitimate need,”
BINGO.
Require real certification for ALL so-called service dogs, especially those with esoteric “jobs” which CANNOT BE SEEN.
I recall a few years ago there was a veterinarian bragging about how she faked her way through the process of getting her pet pit bull declared a service animal. Real proud of herself. That way she wouldn’t be bound by rules that otherwise prevented her from taking her pet wherever she wanted.
Fake “service dogs” are a nightmare. I work in a tourist venue (actually, it’s a church) where we have to deal with them.
They’re usually brought in by neurotic older ladies who have gotten some kind of internet certificate or bought a “service dog vest” off the internet. The dogs stink, they attack other dogs, they bark, and they piddle on the floor. One of the ladies lifted her “service dog” up so it could drink out of the baptismal font.
A real service dog is carefully trained and does none of the things I described above. But we’re all told not to challenge them now because then they will invoke ADA. This is even though there’s no legitimate reason, and if they sued us, they’d lose (since they’re not handicapped and the dog is NOT a service dog). But the threat alone is enough to mean that we can’t do anything.
That dog is lucky it wasn’t my dad’s German Shepherd. Zarek was a big wonderful, family friendly, people friendly dog but Katie bar the door if he was off leash and saw another male dog.
I am recovering from a serious dog attack.
Got both my arms and then charged so close to my face that I had flashbacks of dog face about a foot from my own for the first two or three nights.
I’m lucky to be alive. A man who was a few steps away got there just in time to hold the animal off of me with a chair until the owner took it away.
It had bitten both owners before. They knew it was aggressive.
Now I’m getting to know wound doctors and contagious disease doctors and it’s not fun.
I’ve always liked dogs and still do - NICE dogs.
EVERY PERSON who decides to own a POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS DOG should be held 100% RESPONSIBLE for the dog’s actions.
Friends of mine, hubby and wife, brag about how they printed “Service Animal” creds from a Google image search and bought a cheap harness. They take their dogs everywhere they go and never get questioned.