Work Dogs On Board?

[Hygiene99]

I never saw any of the HAL 10, or my Cash, suffer from seasickness...I think that with 4 legs, they're self-leveling.

Your first question is more complex. The purpose of a service dog is to help mitigate some disabling condition that significantly limits one or more of a person's major life activities...walking, hearing, breathing,etc, etc. With this kind of major disabling condition, the chances of a service dog being "off duty" in the presence of the disabled handler it has been trained to assist are slim. It depends on the disability and the assistance the dog has been trained to render.
Cash has been in the ocean...with me. On the beach I need him to help me walk but when we get into the water he's on his own. Strangely enough, though, he will not leave me to go swimming. He loves swimming but does not love the ocean...Water that moves by itself makes him nervous.

On long cruises I let Cash loose to run and stretch his legs in a safe place off the ship if I am on my scooter or in a wheelchair. He has a couple of favorite trees he likes to check for doggie "messages" on Castaway Cay and in Nassau.

One of the biggest dangers to a service dog in a foreign port is the presence of unleashed aggressive resident dogs. I have had problems in Cabo, Nassau, and on St. Maarten. I would not let Cash off leash anywhere he might have a run-in with another dog.

Here is a photo of Lynda & Cash,
We had the pleasure of sailing with them both.
We even went back to there stateroom to pay a visit to Cash , when he was Off duty !

Awesome Puppie..

 

[SueM in MN]

Not sure if I am qualified to answer--but I have seen in training pups in the parks.

We have also read books on the matter and a training dog does have papers as well as his training jacket (sorry don't know what that is really called) and are permitted in places just like a service dog. They do have to learn somehow .

Fascinating thread!

I have also seen pups in training in the parks.

When I did some research as the writer of our hospital system's policy on Service Animals, I found out that the dogs in training don't have the same legal "rights to be there" as Service Animals.

Legally, Service Animals have to be allowed where ever the person they are working with is allowed. There are some qualifications - like a hospital can say the dog is not allowed in surgery or sterile areas, but the qualifications have to have a reason behind them; you can't just say "no animals in the ICU", you have to look at risks.
Anyway, a facility can refuse to let dogs in training in. Most will let them in. Some probably don't know that they don't legally have to; some let them in because like you said "they do have to learn somehow".