[nagdu] New definition of a service animal

[Jewel S.]

Oh, I see. So if someone has a parrot, cat, monkey, iguana, or any
other animal that is kept in the home setting, it is under HUD, and if
it is eligible depends on HUD rules. Makes sense.

On 7/29/10, Marion Gwizdala <blind411 at verizon.net> wrote:
> Jewel,
>     As for your concern about the definition as it applies to housing, the
> ADA does not apply to housing accommodations, only to the common areas.
> Housing accommodations are under the jurisdiction of the Department of
> Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the Fair Housing Act (FHA). As far
> as I know, the FHA still provides for a broader species of animals and
> services.
>
> Fraternally yours,
> Marion
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jewel S." <herekittykat2 at gmail.com>
> To: "NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users"
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> Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2010 9:32 PM
> Subject: Re: [nagdu] New definition of a service animal
>
>
>>I agree whole-heartedly about cats. They are wonderful service
>> animals! Sadly, many apartments and public places do not let cats in,
>> so they need to be designated as a service animal if they are trained
>> to be such, such as the wonderful example of a seizure alert cat or my
>> friend who had an alert cat because she was hearing impaired (not
>> deaf). The story of the cockatiel is awesome...I never thought of a
>> bird being a seizure alert. I imagine when he gets older, the bird
>> could alert the people around the child if he has a seizure, becoming
>> progressively louder if no one comes, or even instructing people not
>> to hold him down when he's seizing or to roll him to his side? That'd
>> be pretty awesome, since most people, when they see a person having a
>> seizure, have no clue what to do. Or perhaps the bird could take a
>> card from his pocket to give to someone that has instructions such as
>> doctor contact, which hospital what to do and not to do, etc. But
>> because of the limitation to the definition, this bird will not get
>> the chance to do these jobs. How sad.
>>
>> On 7/28/10, Mardi Hadfield <wolfsinger.lakota at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 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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