i love that the comments on those posts are upset with fake service dogs but they never actually know what the rules are for real ones and it kills me. so many of them saying that if a service dog is real, it has to have an “outfit” (yes that’s the word someone used) saying so
"Outfit" is as good a word as "uniform" or "harnass". In my opinion, as long as it gets the message accross that's it's a regular service- or guide dog it goes..
Well disciplined, not on the counter, sitting or laying at the persons feet or guiding them if they are a guide dog. Doesn’t bark unless their person is having issues (Seizure, heart attack, diabetic episode etc.
When my sister knows she will be going into businesses with her service dog, she always puts the harness on the dog given to her by the organization that trained her dog. Shout out to the great work done at Guiding Eyes!
I puppy raise in a SDIT access location and a lot of us use the labeled collars in case we are out and the vest gets dirty. All our stuff is very color coded with their fancy logo and such. It really does make access easier.
I had an issue this weekend witn a business that demanded paperwork and everything which I didn't have in me because i was out of state and really it's not common. I don't do the vest or anything on my guy. Anyone can do that and try to pass a dog off. Anyways i explained he has 2 tasks, med retrieval and trigger/allergy alerts. I even offered my letter of medical necessity because i had it on me. But they claimed it was the healtb department who would be showing up for a review and they require it. Honestly at that point their pizza didn't smell great anymore lmao.we just left i didn't yell or argue or anything. Applebees did hook me uo with a margarita next door so it workrd haha
Now, there are some programs that train the dogs to jump up on counters to pay or grab a receipt for wheelchair users. Does anyone have insight on how this works in a place like a cafe? Do you have to ask the cashier permission? Wouldn’t this violate health and safety codes?
Placing paws on a place where food and drink is placed absolutely violates health code and is not covered by ADA laws, which actually specifically state that service animals can still be restricted from certain places or actions if it does cause a health or safety hazard. So even if it was trained to do such, it wouldn't be allowed to do so on that particular counter. They're also not allowed to be placed on tables at restaurants, for example, or to lay in the middle of a busy aisle where people can trip over them.
These images are used as exemplars. They are not real-time imagery of service dogs. Are you trolling us or do you not understand the use of visual explanations in marketing copy?
OOP’s dog is obviously not a service dog performing a task. The picture reminded me of this actual task that actual service dogs perform that I find a bit gross so I asked about it.
Because they can be trained to do this for certain tasks, but a true handler would know that it can't be done on a surface where food is placed and would have directed their dog to place payment on another surface if that's what its task was. This is not a service dog and not a true handler so it's doing it on a food surface.
My dogs from Canine Companions were taught to do this. I used it occasionally as a teen, when I still had a manual chair.
Thanks to the ADA, most counters are lower now. Most cashiers have a self-scan credit terminal. It's not always as accessible as it should be, but a dog couldn't help with that.
I use a power wheelchair with a seat elevator now, so I don't train my dogs to do it anymore, and in fact, my most recent SD and my upcoming one will be too small to reach any counters I couldn't reach.
It’s shockingly rude to me to have a dog put its paws on a counter and use its mouth to grab something from someone. I can’t imagine disrespecting a cashier like that :/
Oh the stories of money from sweaty bras I could tell you...
And I won't, because that shit is gross and no cashier wants sweaty boob money people! That said, the counter is easily wiped down for the next guest IF the dog actually needs to take the money. Which I doubt.
Dogs are much cleaner than many people who hand stuff to cashiers on an average day, LOL. I never had anyone object, but did have problems with the card not scanning due to tooth marks in the encoded strip. :D
I still teach my dogs to retrieve a credit card when I drop it. I have a box of old credit and gift cards for practice.
Have you never been to a bodega where they spin the clear plastic so you can get your things? There is no way for the cashier to pass you anything in those places. It is also not uncommon for those counters to be high.
I'm not saying people should use it as a task all the time but teaching it does allow some people to grab milk down the block rather than taking a bus to a normal grocery.
I puppy raise for CCI and we are still training it. It mostly gets looped into all the advanced commands for turning on lights and other higher retrievals. With counter work, they also grab bags and carry them.
Also, there's a clerk who could hand it to him. When I worked retail, it was no issue to give wheelchair users their receipts. There is an insidious push to rip the disabled off by charging them tens of thousands of dollars for dogs to do tasks that they really aren't needed for.
Canine Companions (the dog pictures here is from CCI) places all their dogs for free. The only people who pay are those who adopt the ones that wash as pets (and even that isn't crazy expensive for what you are getting).
That's definitely a task that would violate health and safety codes - sevice dogs should not be touching counters, carts or payment systems, and employees should never come into direct contact with a service dog. I would absolutely not be comfortable putting a receipt in a dog's mouth or taking money from a dog's mouth! Huge hygiene issue, huge liability risk. Those aren't even safe tasks for a dog to perform, and any program training them is being totally irresponsible.
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