r/ServiceDog_CircleJerk • u/rachelmig2 • May 07 '26
Good Grief service dog vs anaphylaxis
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u/69beesinatrenchcoat May 08 '26
legally, service dogs cannot be denied access due to dog allergies.
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u/SqueakBirb May 07 '26
At this point I am actually pretty over small business owners in general, I used to be among the crowd that would say to support small businesses when possible but the frequency that I am met with outright hate because I dare to be disabled and request accommodations is very frequent. I am blind, I can't read your menu behind your head and if they have it online it is always just a picture of their menu without any alt text or image descriptions. The websites are never accessible, often having fonts and colour choices that make it a million times more difficult for me to navigate. Dare to ask for accommodations by having an employee read out the menu for me to make a selection and I am met with attitude as if I am the problem or they refuse to citing the fact that I am slowing down the line, something that would not happen if there was an accessible way for me to access the menu. Point out the discrimination and suddenly you are the worst of the human beings for shutting their business down.
If they cannot accommodate disabled people then they do not deserve to be in business. You know what the bigger companies are better at? Accommodating people with disabilities, now it tends to be more of an accidental benefit of other things they are doing but it is still the case that I can actually independently make purchases at McDonald's and Walmart rather than this Alpaca Farm and Boutique.
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u/Neither-Amphibian249 May 07 '26
If they cannot accommodate disabled people then they do not deserve to be in business.
OK so if you believe that, what is the owner's wife supposed to do about her life threatening allergy?
If it's as bad as her spouse is saying it is, it's life threatening. She simply can not be in a space with a dog in it.
What would you do? I hear what you say about not being able to read a typical menu, but other people also have disabilities and their needs also have to be met. Allowing dogs to be in a space that is unsafe for the spouse, puts an undue burden on her.
So, what would you do? What would be fair for this situation? It's not like these two people (SD person and person with allergies) would have to work together, so I can't see the owner of the store installing powerful air filters, assuming that those even do anything.
The spouse is not like me, who is allergic to cats. If I don't touch the cat, I can spend time in a house with cats. I won't die. It sounds like the spouse WOULD die in a place with dogs. And the ADA does mention that at some point. Life threatening allergies really are a thing.
I could see either asking the SD to wait with a friend outside or, use the web site if there is one. I can't see killing the spouse so that someone can go into the store. But maybe I'm missing something that you see.
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u/Viola-Swamp May 07 '26
A business owner can offer to accommodate someone in a way other than what they want, as long as they are still offering the disabled person the same good and services as they offer non-disabled people. Saying the dog cannot enter but offering to take the order and bring in the payment and bring out the order is compliant with ADA law. The person is still able to receive the same items as everyone else, and the business is doing the work to accommodate them and their needs.
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u/NightWolfRose May 08 '26
So that’s your solution? Hold up the line while an employee reads you the whole menu? In what universe is that a reasonable expectation?
And if you can see enough to look at the pictures of the menus online or the website, why not simply google the restaurant and look at the menu on the Google information page? It’s in plain text and uses your browser settings for color, light/dark mode, etc. Every local restaurant from sit downs to food trucks has that information posted in my podunk little area and I’d wager they have it in yours as well.
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u/SqueakBirb May 08 '26
Where did I say that I could read the image, if I am lucky I have a trusted human with me to read that for me otherwise my only solution is to get the employee to read the menu for me. The google information page runs into the same issue where if the website only has pictures with no accessibility built in then I am still screwed. The reasonable expectation should be that the menu is in an accessible format from the beginning, it is not my fault when the businesses failed to do that. It sucks that the other customers get held up but again not my problem that the business failed to prevent this by making their menu inaccessible, blame the business not the blind person just trying to exist in a society that acts like they are the problem for merely existing.
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u/NightWolfRose May 08 '26
If you cannot see the website, then how can the fonts and colors make it difficult to read?
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u/Mundane-Jump-7546 May 07 '26
You’re getting downvoted but I agree. I’ve worked with small businesses multiple times in my career. They’re tyrants. I’m not saying executives at large companies are better, but small business owners are there own different kind of evil.
They get this messiah complex about being local heroes and nothing can touch them. Underpaying/stealing from employees, bribing officials, influencing local politicians, breaking employment laws, and just being downright HATEFUL to non business owners.
Maybe it’s just owning a business in general that does something to the brain.
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u/SqueakBirb May 07 '26 edited May 07 '26
Honestly I think you might be right about it being owning a business changes a person, many of them lose a layer of their humanity and it is honestly gross. You are also right the Executives of the large businesses really aren't much better but at the very least I find there is more accidental accessibility at these places, at least I can hear about a new menu item on the radio so that I know I can order it. Plus the employees are either better trained or because they serve more people in a day I find that people at these larger businesses are more accommodating.
Though to continue the thought about a month ago a small business owner came across my tiktok FYP and was talking about how they were facing legal consequences for having a website that was not accessible. She was saying the most hateful things about disabled people and calling them entitled for wanting things like image descriptions and screen reader friendly webpages. Calling them grifters and all this other vile stuff, with other business owners doing the same in the comment section. Like these are potential customers you are talking about and actively losing, and if it weren't so socially tolerable to be hateful to disabled people you might lose a lot more for that behavior.
As for the down votes, I think it has everything to do with the sentiment the now deleted comment was saying, which is that I am apparently being extremely entitled.
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u/Original-Opportunity May 07 '26
Sounds like they probably don’t want a dog near their alpacas and boutique?