[nagdu] Woman with guide dog says civil rights were violated

Sat Jun 6 21:03:16 UTC 2009

Marsha,
    The Federal law is clear on this by defining the term "service animal". 
A guide dog is only one of a type of service animal. An assistance animal is 
not a service animal. Individuals with other disabilities have the right to 
be accompanied by a service animal in places where the public is invited; 
however, the same is not true of those accompanied by assistance animals.

Fraternally,
Marion


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Marsha" <queen.marsha.lindsey at gmail.com>
To: "'NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users'" 
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Subject: Re: [nagdu] Woman with guide dog says civil rights were violated


> No I agree completely. But when we get so broad, in specifying what type 
> of
> dog a disabled person has then we get into other assistant dogs such as
> therapy dogs and so on. I don't know what the right wording is for this, 
> but
> there has to be a way!
> marsha
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
> Of Marion & Martin
> Sent: Saturday, June 06, 2009 9:55 AM
> To: NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users
> Subject: Re: [nagdu] Woman with guide dog says civil rights were violated
>
> Marsha,
>    Though I agree with you, how the law is written is very important. Some
> legislators are a little ignorant and, believing they are correct, have 
> used
>
> the term "Seeing Eye Dog" in their laws. I believe all of these references
> have been struck, but a State Attorney could argue that only dogs trained 
> at
>
> The Seeing Eye are provided access or that a business that denies access
> could not have had criminal intent when denying access to a Leader dog
> because the law clearly states "Seeing Eye Dog".
>
> Marion
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Marsha" <queen.marsha.lindsey at gmail.com>
> To: "'NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users'"
> <nagdu at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Saturday, June 06, 2009 8:20 AM
> Subject: Re: [nagdu] Woman with guide dog says civil rights were violated
>
>
>>I don't think the issue here is what school we get our dogs from, plain 
>>and
>> simple Seeing Eye dogs, Leader Dogs, guide Dogs, Service Dogs, they are
>> guide dogs/assistant dogs. This is more of a legal issue, not a issue of
>> what you call your dog. It is more of a issue of what the dog  does, not
>> what school it is from.
>>
>> Marsha
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On 
>> Behalf
>> Of Jenine Stanley
>> Sent: Friday, June 05, 2009 8:47 PM
>> To: 'NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users'
>> Subject: Re: [nagdu] Woman with guide dog says civil rights were violated
>>
>> Interesting story. What part of the comments of Texas Hearing and Service
>> Dogs did you disagree with or bothered you, Wayne? Just curious. I
>> personally didn't see anything incorrect in what was said. The only thing
>> that jumped out and it could very well be a result of editing, was that
>> this
>> handler seemed to be presumed guilty of some wrong even though what she
>> was
>> saying lead me to believe she was not.
>>
>> I know there's a really strong desire to correct, out of school pride or
>> whatever, people who call every guide dog a Seeing eye dog, but sometimes
>> you have to temper that one.
>>
>> Then again, some people are on their best behavior on camera too.
>>
>> It will be interesting to see how this one plays out.
>>
>>
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