Keep your mangy pets at home

[Olioxenfree]

Emotional Support Animals are ridiculous. Get a damn stuffed animal and carry that around with you if you are so damn fragile you can't leave your house alone. More insanity

I'll tell that to my friend whose son who has autism is now verbal outside the home, can recover from a meltdown in a fraction of the time, and has made friends thanks to his emotional support dog. Or my sister, who credits a good part of her emotional recovery after being raped and almost murdered when she was 15 to the help of an emotional support dog. By the way, emotional support dogs don't have the same rights and can not be brought into stores.

[Valentina327]

My dog is a monster. I can't carry him. I would never take him to a store besides a feed store or the lumber yard. I see no need for people to bring their dogs inside all the stores that they do. I wish that there was a good way of stopping it all and making it so only real service dogs were allowed in.

Awww! You take him through the lumber yard! I bet he is happy trotting around sniffing all of those former trees!

[Valentina327]

I've said it before and I'll say it again:

Any animal that is needed for "support" should have to be licensed and should have to pass some sort of behavioral test. Until there's a uniform policy across the country, people will continue to bring their pet dogs, cats, birds, and alligators to whatever store they wish to.

LOL - can you imagine ...
"This is my emotional support gator, Ralphie"

[Deleted User 1393]

Emotional Support Animals are ridiculous. Get a damn stuffed animal and carry that around with you if you are so damn fragile you can't leave your house alone. More insanity

I'll tell that to my friend whose son who has autism is now verbal outside the home, can recover from a meltdown in a fraction of the time, and has made friends thanks to his emotional support dog. Or my sister, who credits a good part of her emotional recovery after being raped and almost murdered when she was 15 to the help of an emotional support dog. By the way, emotional support dogs don't have the same rights and can not be brought into stores.

lordy

[mater-three]

I've said it before and I'll say it again:

Any animal that is needed for "support" should have to be licensed and should have to pass some sort of behavioral test. Until there's a uniform policy across the country, people will continue to bring their pet dogs, cats, birds, and alligators to whatever store they wish to.

ESAs are not allowed in any store that pets are prohibited. Under federal laws, they aren’t service animals and they aren’t treated as such. They must be allowed in rentals and in airplanes. I don’t know why ESAs would require a behavioral test for that. Long story short ESAs≠Service Animals

[Anonymous 11]

I want to be able to bring my emotional support snake, that i keep wrapped around my neck to make me feel safe and protected, into everywhere I go. stores,doctoroffices,airport,schoolfunctions,familyreunions,townhallmeetings.
I don't care what problem anyone has with that. My lack of emotional control trumps everyone else's fears and prejudices. r we cool with thatt

[Anonymous 12]

Emotional Support Animals are ridiculous. Get a damn stuffed animal and carry that around with you if you are so damn fragile you can't leave your house alone. More insanity

I'll tell that to my friend whose son who has autism is now verbal outside the home, can recover from a meltdown in a fraction of the time, and has made friends thanks to his emotional support dog. Or my sister, who credits a good part of her emotional recovery after being raped and almost murdered when she was 15 to the help of an emotional support dog. By the way, emotional support dogs don't have the same rights and can not be brought into stores.

Of course they do......

[Anonymous 10]

I'm pretty sure that many people do see the value of an emotional support animal. I do. What many people do not agree with, though, is...emotional support animals being granted access to places of businesses...when they shouldn't be given access and truthfully have no right to that access.

The problem is...Many business owners don't know what animals they MUST permit and what animals they have the right to turn away. And then the other problem is...There are people who know darn right well that they don't have the right to bring in their animal and they do it anyway.

Emotional Support Animals are ridiculous. Get a damn stuffed animal and carry that around with you if you are so damn fragile you can't leave your house alone. More insanity

I'll tell that to my friend whose son who has autism is now verbal outside the home, can recover from a meltdown in a fraction of the time, and has made friends thanks to his emotional support dog. Or my sister, who credits a good part of her emotional recovery after being raped and almost murdered when she was 15 to the help of an emotional support dog. By the way, emotional support dogs don't have the same rights and can not be brought into stores.

[Anonymous 10]

IKR?!! "And he's a friendly gator."

I've said it before and I'll say it again:

Any animal that is needed for "support" should have to be licensed and should have to pass some sort of behavioral test. Until there's a uniform policy across the country, people will continue to bring their pet dogs, cats, birds, and alligators to whatever store they wish to.

LOL - can you imagine ...
"This is my emotional support gator, Ralphie"

[Anonymous 10]

I definitely agree that ESAs ≠ Service Animals.

I also understand that ESAs are SUPPOSED TO BE prohibited where pets are prohibited. But that's not what's happening.

All I'm saying is that in order for an ESA to be permitted access, it should have to go through whatever licensing and approval that a service animal does.

Out of ignorance I ask:
1. Do service dogs get a license that identifies it as such?
2. Are service dogs required to undergo any sort of training (so that they know how to "behave" in places of business)?

I've said it before and I'll say it again:

Any animal that is needed for "support" should have to be licensed and should have to pass some sort of behavioral test. Until there's a uniform policy across the country, people will continue to bring their pet dogs, cats, birds, and alligators to whatever store they wish to.

ESAs are not allowed in any store that pets are prohibited. Under federal laws, they aren’t service animals and they aren’t treated as such. They must be allowed in rentals and in airplanes. I don’t know why ESAs would require a behavioral test for that. Long story short ESAs≠Service Animals