[nagdu] SPECIAL ASSIGNMENT: Fake service dogs and the negative impact

[Tami Kinney]

Cindy,

As an owner-trainer, I worry about the prospect of needing certification 
quite a bit. I also refuse to get a certificate off the internet to show 
people to make life easier for myself or to get a vest for the same 
reasons. My dog's training and comportment speak for themselves. Period. 
If she is not fit to be in public, then that is on me and I should not 
take her there. She is, so I do because that is my right under the law.

When I read these fake service dogs reports I have to slap myself around 
these days to keep from getting really extra snarly on the subject. /smile/

I keep coming back to seeing the best solution as real enforcement of 
the law when it comes to the fakes and frauds, with real penalties. 
Cracking down on service dog users won't trouble the fakes and frauds at 
all, it seems to me. They'll just have to be a bit more creative to 
carry on their misconduct...

There is also good old-fashioned communication and education, publicly 
and by each and every one of us. I am not an educator or a communicator, 
so it always surprises me how easily I do either now because of all the 
practice I get. /smile/

Tami

On 11/15/2011 07:52 AM, Cindy Ray wrote:
> I think it is frightening to read these stories about the fake service dogs. What do they mean in the end for people who truly are using and need their dogs? I truly would hate to see us having to all have identification at the ready to show; and what would that mean for people who are training their own? Would they have to get a doggie drier's license kind of like a state ID? It just seems a shame that people abuse this because their dogs are actually people with four paws? They are not no matter how you dress them up.
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> Cindy
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