[nagdu] New definition of a service animal

[Mardi Hadfield]

I am very disappointed at the new regulations. I had a seizure alert cat and
she was trained to walk on a leash and harness and she was trained to sit in
a basket on my wheelchair.even though her alerting was a natural task,I
trained her to stay with me when I had a seizure until some one came to help
or I recovered enough to get up. Most cats would run off if they saw a
person going through a seizure.This took a lot of time and patience to train
my cat to do this. It was a great comfort to be able to see my cat lying
peacefully on top of me while I was recovering from the seizure, because
most people ten to get "freaked out" at an incident like a seizure. I used
to train seizure alert and hearing alert cats and placed them all over the
USA and several other countries.I also know a family living on my street
that have a child that has seizures and they have trained their Cockatiel to
come and tell them when Timmy is having a seizure and they are not in the
room with him.This bird will squawk and say seizure,seizure, and fly in to
the room to get them.I have witnessed this. They do not take the bird out of
the house,but this bird is trained to get Timmy's parents if they are in
another room and away from him. I think this changing of the regulations is
a bit like closing the barn door after the horse has already gotten out. If
the barn door had been closed in the beginning,the horse would not have
escaped. If they had regulated the species in the beginning,they would not
have had to do it now.But, that is typical backward government mentality.
MHO.   Mardi and Shaman and Nala,retired.

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