[nagdu] Legislative Consideration

[Julie J]

Steve,

I realize that putting the focus on behavior will  not directly prevent 
people from committing fraud.    However I think it will reduce the amount 
of fraud committed by passing a pet as a service animal.  I can tell you 
first-hand that it is an incredible load of work to train a dog  to be a 
service dog.  If people had to do that much work, let's face it they 
wouldn't or at least not nearly as many  would.

Then I look at the flip side of that coin...if all the dogs I encountered in 
public were well behaved and unobtrusive, I personally wouldn't mind what 
the disability status of the owner was.  For me it's not so much the 
presence of the dog that bothers me as it is the behavior of the dog.  Yes, 
a part of me is still annoyed that the person is effectively lying by 
passing their pet as a service dog, but if I have to pick among the 
available bad choices, I'd like well behaved liars over ill behaved dogs of 
any status.

JMHO
Julie


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Johnson" <stevencjohnson at centurytel.net>
To: "NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users" 
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Sent: Sunday, January 17, 2010 12:20 PM
Subject: Re: [nagdu] Legislative Consideration


> Julie,
>
> If this were then to be the new focus, it is not solving the issue of 
> fraudulant service animals being passed off as legitimate ones.  However, 
> it does get to the heart of the current issue at hand and one of the 
> conditions of responsibility of a service animal user...control at all 
> times.
> If then the focus now turns to developing legislation to penalize 
> individuals for uncontrolled *service animals*, my guess is that this 
> would then become much more reffective to move through at the State level 
> versus Federal level, and perhaps drafting similar language through this 
> organization *NAGDU*, and having consistent language would be the better 
> approach.
>
> JMO
>
> Steve
>
>
>
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