[nagdu] New definition of a service animal

Fri Jul 30 12:57:59 UTC 2010

Jewel,

Yes, if it is a rental property.  If you own your own home you can have any 
animal you want as long as there aren't city/state laws preventing it, as is 
the case with some larger wild animals. Even in the case of city or state 
laws preventing certain animals residing in single family dwellings, I think 
you can still apply for an exemption based on disability related need.

Julie

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jewel S." <herekittykat2 at gmail.com>
To: "NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users" 
<nagdu at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Friday, July 30, 2010 7:29 AM
Subject: Re: [nagdu] New definition of a service animal

> 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"
>> <nagdu at nfbnet.org>
>> 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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>>>
>>>
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>>> ~Jewel
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> ~Jewel
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