Creature Comforts - Assistance Animals Now Come in All Shapes and Sizes - NYTimes.com

[laigaiem]

Stories of a few non-standard ADA service animals, their owners, and people who are trying to separate them:

Creature Comforts - Assistance Animals Now Come in All Shapes and Sizes - NYTimes.comThe idea of a parrot to talk down psychotics makes me really happy. On the other hand, trying to take away service animals because they're "not dogs" when

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[rowanmikaio]

I'm very interested by the fact that one of the arguments about how they're allowing a 'virtual zoo of service' centers around two dogs.

This was quite an interesting article. I'm not sure how I feel about all of this, but in general, I think that the species of a service animal, for the most part, should not matter. I certainly don't think it wise to restrict it just to dogs. That's just silly. What about people allergic to dogs? Do they not get service animals?

I'm a bit more iffy on the phychosis-preventing animals and whatnot, but they allow these people to lead relatively normal lives without or with less medication. I'll keep telling myself that this is a good thing.