[Oagdu] [txagdu] Service Animal Article from Associated Press

Wed Nov 15 21:15:34 UTC 2017

                                                                                    I was wondering how you dog guide owners handled this situation.  When I owned my guides, 40 years or more ago, there were no service animals.  With which to deal.  I work with my community college's students.  One of whom brought with her a service dog to class.  Another student brought pizza.  For us all to share.  The student with the service dog, allowed the dog to eat a slice of pizza.  When I owned my guide dog, we were instructed never to allow them to eat food meant for human consumption, such as pizza, or other kinds of fast foods. and never to eat in such settings as are class rooms.  In fact, my first guide never, so much as begged for food.  If she was lying on the floor of a car.  While I ate fast food.  My question is this:  How do you keep your dogs disciplined.  If other dogs are eating food which is unhealthy for them to eat. 
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  Sabra,

                  I believe the reason the article does not say what ended up happening is because nothing yet has been determined. The article does state the service animal user has filed a temporary restraining order and the judge is weighing whether or not to issue a permanent injunction. We will be folowing this case, as it has the potential to create some case law for other issues we face, such as access to taxicabs and ridesharing companies whose drivers claim allergies to dogs.

  Fraternally yours,

  Marion

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  From: Sabra Ewing [mailto:sabra1023 at gmail.com] 
  Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2017 4:42 PM
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  Subject: Re: [txagdu] Service Animal Article from Associated Press

  but this article doesn't say what ended up happening.

  Sabra Ewing

  On Nov 14, 2017, at 1:11 PM, NAGDU President <blind411 at verizon.net> wrote:

    Dear Fellow Federationists,

    I am forwarding this article which appeared on today’s AP wire concerning a recent 
    Court decision between two individuals with disabilities who had a dispute concerning the presence of a service animal and the resolution. Please have a read!

    Fraternally yours,

    Marion

    Marion Gwizdala, President

    National Association of Guide Dog Users Inc. (NAGDU)

    National Federation of the Blind

    (813) 626-2789

    President at NAGDU.ORG

    The National Federation of the Blind knows that blindness is not the characteristic that defines you or your future. Every day we raise expectations because low expectations create barriers between blind  people and our dreams. You can live the life you want! Blindness is not what holds you back.

    From: Marion Gwizdala [mailto:marion.gwizdala at verizon.net] 

    Updated At 12 oh 5 AM.. Judge weighs sorority sisters' dispute over dog Judge weighs sorority sisters' dispute over dog The Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio . COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) A federal judge is deciding whether a dog trained to help an Ohio State University student during panic attacks can stay at her sorority house despite another student's allergy. The Columbus Dispatch reports the university ordered Madeleine Entine to remove her dog, Cory, from the Chi Omega sorority house because another resident complained that the dog inflamed her allergies and, in turn, her Crohn's disease. A school official determined that both students were protected under the Americans with Disabilities Act and the only solution was to allow the person who signed up for their room first to stay in the house. Entine filed a temporary restraining order against the university on Oct. 26. A judge is weighing whether to issue a permanent injunction allowing her and the dog to stay. 

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