[nagdu] Fair Housing

[Julie J.]

I think it's fair to say that most people do not train their own service 
dogs.  It is, however, much more common among other disabilities than 
blindness.   If I had to take a guess I'd say that around 2% of blind 
people  have guide dogs trained through some other means than a 
traditional program.  It's a very small number, but I don't understand 
what the number of people in a particular group has to do with that 
group's civil rights?

And two quick things about ID cards...anyone with a basic knowledge of 
computers can make an ID card.  Second the card, even if from an 
established program, doesn't prove that the dog is well behaved.  I 
think we all know of dogs that should not have been issued as guides or 
those whose handler didn't keep up with the training.

JMHO
Julie




On 12/8/2011 2:24 AM, William Burley wrote:
> Sheila,
>
> I think the vast majority of folks do not train their dogs.  The regulations
> say that the dog has to have been trained for the purpose it is serving.
> Whether it's legal or not, if you have an ID from the school why fight a
> battle that is not worth fighting?  Don't get me wrong, if the request is
> unreasonable I'm all for fighting against that.  But if you have proof that
> the dog has been trained or can provide the proof that it is a service
> animal, why cause yourself the headache?  On this specific matter it's a
> case of what is the easiest route.  I am not condoning that medical
> documentation has to be provided...but we have to think as well, how would
> the complex know that it's a service animal?  Remember they had to change
> the definition recently because of the rampant service animal claims that
> were being made.  Again, whether it's legal or not, what harm is it to give
> them a copy of the ID from the school..Just a common sense thought.
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
> Of Sheila Leigland
> Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2011 9:39 PM
> To: NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users
> Subject: Re: [nagdu] Fair Housing
>
> Hi, william I understand your point it doesn't apply to us but if we had
> owner trained our dogs we wouldn't have documentation from any school yet is
> isn't illetal to train your own guide.
>
> Sheila Leiglan	d
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