Handicapped assistance animals

[fabricdragon]

an online friend has a blog for her assistance dog....HERE.. which is sort of like the LJ user  bboa   who is also an assistance dog. (and well worth reading i might add)

but one of the posts on Meet Luigi had a great idea that i passed on to my father (who has a hearing ear dog)
Her dog has his own postcards and business cards!

since my dad is deaf, and

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[calandria]

It's possible that the really rude ones don't actually have a service animal, but are just faking it. This is the case with my mother who somehow managed to convince her doctor to sign a paper so that her dog is considered a service animal, but it has not been trained for anything, nor does she need it. In fact, when she does answer people what it is for, I've heard her give different answers. Sometimes it is for her "epilepsy" which she doesn't have, other times it's to prevent her from having panic attacks, which she doesn't have either *sigh*.

She just wants an excuse to take her "purse dog" into places that don't allow it. She tends to get belligerent when asked about it most of the time. I'm still trying to figure out how in the world I could possibly be related to this woman.

[fabricdragon]

oh lord....
THOSE people, the ones who just claim their dog is a service animal. are the reason my dad has to carry around Buffy's certification papers.
gah
i wouldnt mind it so much if they had a well trained dog that was just not certified, but invariably they have the worst untrained nuisance animals on the planet.

and no, i cant picture it. are you SURE you are related?

[calandria]

Sadly, she did manage to get paperwork from the state saying that it is a service dog. But she, and I, know that it really isn't one. At least it is well-behaved. She's had it for 3 years now, and I still have yet to even hear it bark (and for a chihuahua, that's quite an accomplishment!)

Unless my mother adopted me as an 18 year old single hippie, I have to conclude that yes, unfortunately, we are related. I can only assume I managed to get recessive genes or got them from my dad.

ETA: I still have yet to see the papers, but she says she has them.

[fabricdragon]

sounds like a sitcom idea...
woman with single hippie mom tried to track down real dad.... based on her personality profile and her moms...

"mom.. i just finished all the paperwork and i have concluded my dad must have been a straight laced engineer with a near obsession on organization... so.. what did you drug him with?"

[cvirtue]

And then there are the cases that make it to the media, like the [supposed] service animal which ran amok in an airplane... and it was a pig.