[nagdu] Another development In The Service Dog Discrimination Case

[William Burley]

I don't think in this case it is a matter of getting special permission for
a successor dog.  The apartment complex cannot categorize the service animal
as a pet according to the pet policy but you do have to make the complex
aware that it is a service animal...which is a reasonable accommodations
request.  Just the act of letting the complex know, I am blind and I need a
service animal (greatly simplified) protects both the resident and puts the
complex on notice.

By doing the reasonable accommodations request, it also creates a timeline
for the complex to have a discussion with the resident to ask any questions
or gain clarification.  I think you have to request this discussion in your
request.

If the resident doesn't make the complex aware that it is a service animal,
the complex is not responsible for making the determination.  I'm not sure
why they're giving such a hard time since they are aware of the situation
but doing the simple letter won't hurt a thing and will take only a few
moments.

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-----Original Message-----
From: nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
Of Jewel
Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2011 8:54 AM
To: NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users
Subject: Re: [nagdu] Another development In The Service Dog Discrimination
Case

I don't understand why the process is being so complicated. Why do you
have to have special permission to get a successor dog, and why does
your husband need special permission to have Odie become his medical
alert dog? I guess I just don't understnad what the problem is...pet
policies about weight restrictions should have nothing to do with your
 guide dog or your husband's medical alert dog. Why is your apartment
compelx making this an issue for you?

On 11/8/11, Chantel Cuddemi <jawsgirl87 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Glad you're making progress.
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> Subject: [nagdu] Another development In The Service Dog Discrimination
Case
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> Hi, all,
> Figured I'd update everyone on what's taking further place with the
service
> dog discrimination case here at Sunset Park Apartments.
> I did get a letter from VOA (Volunteers of America's) attorney, stating
that
>
> yes, I'd have to be granted an accomodation to have a new service dog to
> take the place of Odie when he was my guide.
> As for my husband Dale, he's working on trying to get necessary
> documentation to provide and proove that Odie is his medical alert service
> dog.
> Once I get the next dog, I will be able to focus on the new partnership
and
> Odie moves further up the steps of his new career to be with his daddy.
> Dale is already having a representative from Freedom Service Dogs write a
> statement on his behalf and will be going down to the FEDEX office to have
a
>
> picture taken of him and Odie along with getting everything laminated.
> He still is waiting to get a letter from our primary care position.
> Regardless, I'm still going to work work with the Colorado Cross
Disability
> Coalision mainly to make HUD rethink on putting the service dog exception
> back under policies.
> I did post about the new pet rules document a while back in previous
> messages and another problem with the document that I see and it doesn't
> make any sense here is this.
> It doesn't have all the call or section numbers and someone easily took
> parts of Hud's documentation on the internet and just pieced it all
together
>
> and yes, it is falsified.
> If it was a real document, HUD'S logo, call and section number would have
> been in there.
> In the new so-called pet policy, dogs over 30 pounds are not permitted as
a
> pet unless a medical reasoning accomodation is given.
> Factor: We've had residents here in the apartment complex
> who have had large dogs in the past and no one said a thing about it and
> now, there's a big uproar on all of that.
> What matters to me is that I've accomplished another part in this case and
> I'll be taking the letter down to the Colorado Cross Disability Coalision
> so they can make a copy of it too.
> Happily, I'm moving another inch upward in myy accomplishment.
> *Smiles*
> Bibi and Odie
> the happy spirited bounty labra wolf
>
>
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