Today Colorado is the first state to put into effect, a law against fake service dogs. As they say it is more to teach what is appropriate and to teach he public and stores what can be asked and what can't. But it will be a mistermeaner of fence and will have a fine. I have not been able to see the whole law, but it sounds like they put a law against not the use of the dog, but the use of the service vest. Exactly what I said several times, about blind, no one pretends to be blind, okay let me say that different, very few people fake blindness, but when you talk blindness, there are laws in place, laws about the actual harness and it is illegal to use unless you and the dog are a team, there are laws about the team and there are white cane laws. Somehow it sounds to me like Colorado, taped into what I have stated, ADA has said you can't force anyone to train there dog, and you can force any specific bred dog, which is how I really what the law to read. But at least in Colorado, you will not be able to put a vest on and claim the dog a service animal unless you can can actually say what the dog is trained to do, which is a legal question.
I can't wait to see what comes. Because I am still scratching my head at my Disney last visit when they allowed a women in a w/c to bring in on leash with no vest, her five, yes five little dogs all under 20 pounds, all sitting in a basket on her w/c, all her service dogs. I still can not see what service they would do from the basket, except alert her for diabetes controll prosibly, but why would she need 5 dogs for that?
I hope it works and more states start to do something, just today in the grocery store, I ran into 7 dogs, all service animals, none where well trained and it just brings down the rights to those who really need the service.
I can't wait to see what comes. Because I am still scratching my head at my Disney last visit when they allowed a women in a w/c to bring in on leash with no vest, her five, yes five little dogs all under 20 pounds, all sitting in a basket on her w/c, all her service dogs. I still can not see what service they would do from the basket, except alert her for diabetes controll prosibly, but why would she need 5 dogs for that?
I hope it works and more states start to do something, just today in the grocery store, I ran into 7 dogs, all service animals, none where well trained and it just brings down the rights to those who really need the service.
