Lying about your dog being a service animal should be treated far more harshly.
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Posted Dec 7, 2021, 8:54 PM UTC
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People who pretend to have disabilities overall, including you healthy idiots claiming 'religious immunity'.
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Technically, all religious people are epistemologically disabled.
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Also, technically, all religious people should be pro vaccine, all Abrahamic religious texts encourage you to medicate against illness, and ignore any sources that try to overstep "the word of god".
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My county issues a tag to service dog owners. I also carry a letter from my doctor outlining my need for an assistance animal.
I've had my service dog attacked by supposed service dogs multiple times in the past.
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Try to navigate the service dog "requirements". They are laughable. People are just taking advantage of a stupid system.
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I work in hotels, and yes, it's a problem. Not a big problem -- people smoking in non-smoking rooms is a far bigger problem, and hell, people bringing their bed bugs in from home is a bigger problem, though much less so than people think -- but still a problem. Trying to pass your obviously-a-pet off as a service animal is a sure-fire way to piss everyone off because we know it's bullshit, you know it's bullshit, but we can't call you on your bullshit because some other people actually needs it, so the law lets you get away with it by making it illegal for us to press the issue.
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Yep. Take the dog off them and 6 months in jail.
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That's 42 dog months
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Why not. Should stop it in its tracks.
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Are you paying for that? Because I don't want to pay for that out of my taxes.
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I’m sure the prison for profit system would make it work for the tax payer
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People flaunt thousands of laws every day because there is no enforcement. Businesses have no liability if they turn away a non service animal no matter what a person claims. That person would have to show in court that is was a service animal in order to have a claim. Plenty of animals could not possibly be service animals and should be blanket rejected. Chihuahua anyone?
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first world problems
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Why are you able to bring kids everywhere but not dogs?
The idea that people with disabilities need to show they’re “disability credentials” is an ableist idea.
All people should be able to use their judgement on which pets to bring where similar to kids and sometime people will suck at training their pets. That’s life.
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I'm all for restricting access of kids to many locations as well. I'm not suggesting that "disability credentials" should be a thing, but its a massive problem.
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People already do this. The question is: how do we discover which animals are and are not "service animals" (whatever that means anymore) without violating the rights of people protected under the ADA?
Personally I think a little dog poop on a carpet isn't a big deal, and that someone's discomfort in having to maybe clean up a dog mess (which a proper service dog could also do you know) is outweighed by a person's need to have a service animal in the first place.
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apparently you are allowed to ask them what tasks the dog is trained to perform.
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If you just read through the ADA guidelines it's pretty clear that all of these scenarios are already covered by the law:
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The issue is that many people get very pissed off and upset that there is dog shit on the floor, and in a restaurant thats an obvious health violation.
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Right, but the laws clearly say a service animal can be removed from the premise for doing so, so it's not any different than a regular dog in that regard.
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After-the-fact solutions inconvenience everyone.
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That's how the law has been written for 11 years. Is your solution just don't allow any animals into places?
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well....anyone can buy service animal gear and throw it on their dog. but theres a huge difference between a service dog and an emotional support animal. i think youre talking about emotional support animals.
an emotional support animal is not a service animal. ESA's are just pets with zero specific training required