[nagdu] SPECIAL ASSIGNMENT: Fake service dogs and thenegativeimpact

[Marion Gwizdala]

Tami,
    I think that, if places of public accommodation make it a practice to 
ask everyone who enters with a service dog those questions, no matter how 
obvious it may seem to them, it will cut down on the abuses by those who 
have no place bringing their pet into the entity. JMHO!

Marion


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tami Kinney" <tamara.8024 at comcast.net>
To: "NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users" 
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Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2011 3:12 PM
Subject: Re: [nagdu] SPECIAL ASSIGNMENT: Fake service dogs and 
thenegativeimpact


> Marion,
>
> Operant conditioning rocks! /lol/
>
> Thanking employees and commending them to their bosses and companies for 
> their good behavior and professionalism, as you and Merry did, always 
> seems to me to be an important but of-forgotten facet of education and 
> communication.
>
> I will confess that with my guide dog, I will probably never get over the 
> urge to burst out laughing and blurt out, "What does it *look* like she 
> does?!" /lol/
>
> So to overcompensate, I absolutely gush about how wonderful it is that 
> this employee did this relatively simple thing so perfectly and superbly 
> and they are the greatest person to ever liv... /lol/ I always feel a 
> little silly, like I'm going nearly as far as I just mocked myself for 
> doing into the realm of absurdity, but... I do beleive it is important to 
> remember to do that.
>
> Also, it's kinda fun, don't you think? /grin/
>
> Tami
>
> On 11/15/2011 11:41 AM, Marion Gwizdala wrote:
>> Merry and I went into a local supermarket the other day. A manager
>> approached us to ask if our dogs were service dogs and what service they
>> performed. I called the headquarters to tell them how much I appreciated
>> them training their employees to ask the right questions. Perhaps if we
>> encouraged all places of public accommodation to inquire, even when it
>> might seem obvious what service the dog performed, fewer people would
>> try to get one over on the places of public accommodation.
>>
>> fraternally yours,
>> Marion Gwizdala
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Cindy Ray" <cindyray at gmail.com>
>> To: "NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users"
>> <nagdu at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2011 10:52 AM
>> Subject: Re: [nagdu] SPECIAL ASSIGNMENT: Fake service dogs and the
>> negativeimpact
>>
>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> Cindy
>>>
>>>
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