Service Dogs help people in many communities who are unable to be on their own and can act a crutch for a person, but what happens when said tool is being used falsely and is hindered because a few people want to bring their rat dogs into a restaurant without worrying about getting in trouble. From this, rules are required to make sure there is legitimacy in the use of service dogs that are helpful for the owners to be able to function in a public environment. These fake owners are also an offense to the people who actually need them, abusing the rights given to actual disabled people and using it for their own devices even though they have no physical or mental problems. Fake owners that are caught, make the idea of false service dogs known …show more content…
with the help of the media and people influenced by them, leading to judgmental views on actual owners and ruins the service dog community. Aside from soiling the reputation of service dogs, it also ruins the fundamental idea of service dogs, leading to people thinking it is a way to cheat a restaurant to bring their animals in the building instead of an animal used to help a person that is unable to do certain actions on their own.
Fake service dogs can cause major harm on legitimate service dog owners and the animals themselves, ruining the purpose of the dogs while making them less accepted in public areas and making light of people who are depending upon them.
Owners of service animals are subject to accusations of being a false owner at any time because of the fake owners that have been caught in the act, belittling their purpose. To be able to understand the difference between the real and fake can be shown by the law-given definitions of what a service animal and owner are as well as the protocols they are required to follow to be defined as a real service animal owner. These definitions by the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) defined service animals as, “a dog that has been individually trained to do work or perform tasks for an individual with a disability. The task performed by the dog must be directly related to the person's disability” (Service Animals and the ADA).
…show more content…
This defines a service animal species as a dog that must be able to help that person, for example such things as any other type of animal arre not an official service animal. From this, the topic of “comfort animals” can be provided and defined as obsolete by the reader and the ADA, declaring, “they have not been trained to perform a specific job or task, they do not qualify as service animals under the ADA” (Service Animals and the ADA). ADA requirements explain the exact demands that allow them to be legal service animals, as well as help route out fake service animals that would not be able to perform any tasks originally given to a service animal. For the workers of public places, trying to figure out if a service animal is fake or not, is very difficult, leading to a strong hesitation of even trying to assure its legitimacy for the legal problems they could face. Such questions are described by the ADA, saying: “When it is not obvious what service an animal provides, only limited inquiries are allowed. Staff may ask two questions: (1) is the dog a service animal required because of a disability, and (2) what work or task has the dog been trained to perform. Staff cannot ask about the person’s disability, require medical documentation, require a special identification card or training documentation for the dog, or ask that the dog demonstrate its ability to perform the work or task” (Service Animals). These questions supplied by the ADA for places of work gives people owning fake service animals the ability to deceive and have an easier way of getting away with it because the employees are so restricted. As the years have passed, there has been a growing awareness of fake service animals by the news and media, exposing them and the acts they cause that stain, the reputation of legitimate owners of service animals. The views of people have changed as more media is released about service animals. People develop their own opinions about the topic as described by the Marina Bulletin saying, “A rift has grown between disabled people who rely on trained service animals, usually dogs, and passengers with support or comfort animals, with many in the first group suspecting that those in the latter are just trying to avoid paying $125” (“Good Dog, Bad Dog”). EXPLAIN Plane aspect. As well as viewing this as other people's need or selfishness, this can be seen by how Sara Nelson, President of the largest flight attendants' union views the problem into consideration for legitimate owners saying, “passengers abuse the system to bring untrained animals on board, and if it isn't stopped, it could lead to a crackdown that will hurt veterans and the disabled "who legitimately need to travel with these animals."”. (“Good Dog, Bad Dog”). As well as the problems it causes for the owners, it also causes trouble for people with allergies and/or problems of their own who don’t require an animal as viewed by Sanaz Eftekhari, Director of Corporate Affairs for the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America, saying “We are hearing more stories from our community about people with allergies/asthma experiencing issues with animals on planes. This includes pets and emotional support animals in addition to service animals,” (“United Now Wants Owner's, Vet's Proof Support Dogs Will Behave on Flights”). From the given perspectives, the importance of cracking down on false owners grows year by year as the problem affects more parts of the social community, as well as damage the community of legitimate service animal owners. As the public encounters fake service animals more and more, incidents occur that cause them to be a public disturbance that leads to problems for legitimate owners of service animals. Such disturbances are detailed in situations on airplanes where everyone is in close proximity to one another leading to a higher probability of situations causing problems to occur. Such problems can be detailed by sources such as the Manila Bulletin, reporting: “Last June, a 70-pound dog flying as a support animal bit another passenger several times in the face on a Delta plane in Atlanta. The victim was hospitalized.” (“Manila Bulletin”). People that have experienced fake owners have had to endure the problems that come with them such as their impact on a person's health being forced to act to be able to deal with. Such problems are detailed by the Bulletin, talking about the experience of a village woman saying “In 2014, the Daily Herald reported on Laura Pontarelli, an Elk Grove Village woman with severe allergies and asthma, having to give up her seat on an American Airlines flight at the last minute because a large, longhair service dog was boarding.” (“Manila Bulletin”). The longer this problem is unsolved, the more apparent and frequent consequences will arise as more animals appear on planes as detailed by United spokesman Charles Hobart saying “We know that some customers require an emotional support animal to assist them through their journey,” United officials stated, but the numbers of animals flying has spiked by 75 percent and there's been a related uptick in "incidents." Those "run the full spectrum,”(“Manila Bulletin”). The actions of these fake owners cause unintentional problems for the people around them that lead to problems for the actual owners of these service animals. In these times, service dogs have become more prevalent in the communities because they help those who are unable to help themselves because of physical or mental restrictions.
However, as these are the animals used by people who need them, there are people willing to abuse the system given to disabilitated people for their own benefits. Because of these horrendous actions, the rules placed on service animals must be enforced and configured to be able to crack down on fakers in a public environment and be able to understand the difference between real and fake. Fake owners discovered and exposed to the public have caused awareness to many and given them their own ideas about the situation that can be helpful and harmful legitimate owners of service animals. Besides the problems it causes actual owners, the problems caused to others in the public can be shown by the disruptions such as injuries caused by these fakers leads to a sense of fear and concern towards real owners of service animals. The problem of fake service animals has grown stronger as time passed and caused an increasingly growing amount of problems for all around them, making the need of reinvention of rules and regulation to be able to help the public and legitimate owners as a whole defend themselves against the faker owners and their animals more important than ever for the sake of the
community.
Have you ever had the pleasure of sitting beside an animal on the Skytrain on your commute to work or stood in line beside one at the grocery store? Did you know that there's a difference between service dogs and emotional-support animals? These are one of the many struggles that individuals are faced when in public. The article "Pets Allowed" written by Patricia Marx gives you an inside look on the struggles people are faced with while also explaining the rules and laws regulating emotional-support animals that many aren't aware of. Many business owners are being taken advantage of by pet
[Establish credibility] As a life-long dog lover, I have run into BSL many times: from apartments with dog size limitations to cities that outright ban certain breeds.
Some medical professionals do not believe that mental health patients can benefit from therapy dogs and go as far as saying it is a risk far as to say that it is a to the patient and compromise the patients ability to take care of the dog. When people who suffer with mental health issues qualify to get a therapy dog. The mental health patient is tested to see if they are capable of taking care of the dog. Those in need of assistance should use therapy dogs frequently do to the part of the benefits to using these pets to improve mental and emotional health as and physical health. Therapy dogs are beneficial to people who suffer from mental health issues by providing companionship as well as support. Some people with mental health issues have a hard time trusting others and need someone to talk to; Service dogs are important because to make they people with mental health problems feel better and help people with these disorders deal with their emotions.
Justice, “requesting that they set up a regulation to test and certify service dogs and
Dogs can help children cross the street, lead the blind, alert the deaf, and they do so much more. Many of times, an adult might focus on the problem that doesn’t need requirements. An adult might focus on the problem that a child is socially disabled and by focusing on this problem, they may not even see how this child is trying to cross a busy street or might be trying to talk to someone that they shouldn’t. A service dog prevents the child from going out of sight and many of times can lead a child out of danger or avoid it in the first place.
It can be a companion, an aide, or both. Pet dogs are loyal and make wonderful company, and an emotional support dog creates bountiful joy, but a service dog is much more. A service dog not only serves the same role as a pet, but creates a safer environment for its owner. Without the service dog it would be much harder for the owner to get around on a daily basis indecently. However service dogs and their owners are discriminated against because people are skeptical of the dog’s legitimacy, but instead the service dogs and their owners should be respected and treated as
Dogs have impacted the lives of 44% of American families and homes. People use dogs for much more than just a family friend. Dogs are used for special needs, assisting police, and hunting and tracking. Dogs should be appreciated and never taught to fight or be neglected. Dog fighting is unethical because man’s best friend shouldn’t have to fight for their lives.
Do you ever wish that could bring your dog into a store with you? Well, people with service dogs wish they could too. A person with a service dog is defined as a person who needs assistance because of their disability. A disability can range from blindness, to psychiatric disorders, and chronic pain. Service dogs have been refused entry into public businesses and restaurants, because they are dogs. Businesses owners refuse service dogs, since they believe they are disruptive messy. We are supposed to be an accepting, friendly society, yet we won’t even let people with service dogs into public businesses.
There can be no doubt that shelters in the United States are overcrowded, feral cats roam our city streets, thousands of dogs live in grotesque conditions in puppy mills across the country, and yet most American citizens when polled will readily declare that their cat or dog is like ‘a member of the family’. The state of companion animals in this country is precarious at best; caught between scientists who subscribe to Descartes’s idea of ‘anima ex machina’ (unfeeling, a living example of biological processes without the status of ‘being’) and the more common phenomenon of people who pamper their pets in ways that most people would envy. For most individuals living in an urban society such as ours, the most common interaction with animals happens within the home – if the animals that we relate to and interact with the most continue to be abandoned and mistreated on a large scale, there must be some solution that involves more than just building more animal shelters or performing euthanasia more liberally.
Animal-assisted therapy is often confused with service dog; it is two completely different type of usage of animals, which usually are dogs. It is commonly misunderstood because animal-assisted therapy and service dog are working animals with individuals with disability although according to (Hart-Cohen, 2009) service dogs is when an individual with disability is in need of help in order to function in daily life such as answering the door, crossing the street and the list goes on. While animal-assisted therapy animals are trained to offer comfort companionship, and affection to those in need in different situations such as courtrooms, nursing homes, schools, hospitals, and other places (Hart-Cohen, 2009). The point of animal-assisted therapy is to be available in specific situations to offer comfort to individuals. In order to become an assisted animal, the animal must undergo training, to receive a certified to prove that the animal is qualified to be able to control his or her behavior and is able to work with an...
Seeing maimed animals are not pleasant images. Those images sometimes appear across computer and television screens. The advocacy groups who place these images in the public’s view are trying to jolt people into the realization that abuse exists. For every ten seconds that goes by an animal is getting abused (“Animal… Statistics”). One statistic states that “71% of pet-owning women entering women’s shelters reported that their batterer had injured, maimed, killed or threatened family pets for revenge or to psychologically control victims; 32% reported their children had hurt or killed animals” (“Animal… Violence”). Animal cruelty comes in several forms, some of which people do not know. There is animal experimenting, animal abuse, and mistreatment of animals. and through revealing the results from research, one discovers the horrific effects of animal abuse.
The issue of false service animals is causing real problems from those who through the ADA need a service animal. The proposed Bill H.B 2588 is for the best because it will give businesses the authority to disallow any animal in their establishments without proper
Dogs make great companions, can be an assistance dogs and help people with disabilities, and even protect a household. Hearing dogs can be the ears for a person that is hard of hearing, seeing dogs can be the eyes for someone who is legally blind, and service dogs can be an alert system for someone with epilepsy. Although, these dogs are put through a lot of special training for a specific need. More often than not, an assistance dog is adopted but also donated to someone who is handicap. Since a landlord is unable to refuse a house or apartment to someone with an assistance dog, and they are allowed everywhere it is less likely for them to become an inconvenience.
Animal abuse is a travesty in our world that must be stopped. Every year, millions of animals suffer because of human actions, directly or indirectly. Whether it’s abused dogs and cats or even mistreated circus animals, their suffering is as real as it would be if it happened to us. Even animals who are raised on farms simply for human consumption should not have to suffer. One of the worst parts of humanity’s role in animal abuse is that there are easy ways for people to help that they are either ignorant of or simply refuse to do. There are many examples of animals who are abused by humans, but there are also ways for people to help prevent and put an end to animal abuse.
Notwithstanding the joy that animals performing acts, such as riding bicycles, can bring to a person, circuses that use animals should no longer exist. It is 2017 and the rights of animals should be just as important as human rights. Therefore, to help animals avoid servitude, animal-free circuses must gain more popularity and eventually overshadow the circuses that do use, or exploit