[nagdu] Service dog scams putting people 'at risk'

[barbandzoe at comcast.net]

I don't think there is a problem right now, but not a lot of people know that they can go to amazon and get a vest or harness. Once enough people realize they can take little baby doggy woggy  with them where ever they go just by buying a vest, you will see trouble.  there will be dog fights and people will get bit.  people will use the works, you can make me leave he is a service dog, to which the reply should be, a service dog are trained to act good in public and if they can't they  have to leave. 
I have seen this with people who bring in people who are disabled, and the disabled person is loud, misses up the place and bothers the customers. the manager will not do anything because if they do then they look like they are being mean to the disable person.  My sister cares for a disabled girl and if she acts up they go home, my sister doesn't want people to look at her and wish she would get that girl out of the store. 
So it will be interesting to see how things play out.  But I do agree that the service dog people need to start education business on what is and isn't service dog edict. Businesses need to know the laws and what they can and can't do.  I think it should start now before things go nuts and people start crying, you let me in here for the last year, why now are you being all up in my face about my dog. 
  
Barb   

----- Original Message -----

From: "National Association of Guide Dog Users" <blind411 at verizon.net> 
To: "NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users" <nagdu at nfbnet.org> 
Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2013 1:56:40 PM 
Subject: Re: [nagdu] Service dog scams putting people 'at risk' 

William, 
        Though it may be true that identification cards may solve the 
problem for some, how would you propose people like Tami and Julie go about 
getting such I.D. cards? Perhaps they could order them online from one of 
those places they could get a service dog coat. My point is that there is no 
fool-proof way to deal with this issue except by educating the public about 
what is proper behavior for a service dog in public. If places of public 
accommodation felt more assured they would not face discrimination charges 
for denying access to an ill-behaved service dog, maybe those attempting to 
pass their obnoxious pets off as service animals would either think twice 
about bringing them in public or require them to behave better. In either 
case, the problem would be resolved. That is, if there really is a problem 
or is it just CCI creating news to get their name out? I believe it is the 
latter! 

Marion Gwizdala 




-----Original Message----- 
From: nagdu [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of William 
Vandervest 
Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2013 11:36 AM 
To: NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users 
Subject: Re: [nagdu] Service dog scams putting people 'at risk' 

maybe cci has a good idea, while id's won't solve all the problems they 
would certainly help 


There are none so blind as those who will not see 

William and LD Lynard 


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