Wednesday, July 30, 2014

Phony Service Dog Certification

There are multiple Web sites that provide certification for service dogs (i.e. assistants for those with disabilities) and I saw one site listing the service for only $49 US with no hassles, they say.  (CH6:  Pets Being Passed Off As Service Animals A Growing Problem In Oklahoma)

There will be no links in this article to the sites providing this 'service' but you can find the validation for yourself with a search on 'service animal certification' in Google.

The reason for getting such certification is that it permits one to take a pet anywhere and the store, venue, or whatever cannot refuse you as all certification appears the same and has equivalent legality.

How this can be viewed as anything but stealing from the handicapped is a mystery as any threat to access to anyplace for service dogs is immediately a threat to the handicapped who need it.

Hopefully there will be immediate restriction on where one can obtain such certification such that this important privilege is available only to those who truly need and deserve it.

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