Service Cat

Service Dog paperwork
Service Dog paperwork

The hardest thing about leaving town or even thinking about leaving town is leaving your pet behind. This condition probably gets worse as you get older. I know I have a hard time falling asleep if our cat isn’t up on the bed. She is always up before us but she lets us sleep until we open our eyes. Once she senses we are awake she meows to be let out while I grab the paper and then she must be fed before I make the coffee we hear about it. I love this routine and I can’t help but think she would be upset if we weren’t here for it to unfold. It would be so much easier if we could travel with our cat.

We had dinner with a couple who were up from upstate (an hour north of the city) and they showed us the “Service Dog” get-up they purchased online. For a hundred and fifty bucks you get this dog vest with pockets for badges and official looking identification. They had just used the badges at a downtown hotel that was not dog friendly. In fact their dog was back in the hotel room while we were dining.

The front side of the card reads “In Accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990: This card identifies (so and so) as the rightful owner of the service dog named below” and to protect the company that prints these the the back side makes it clear that the card has nothing to with the Department of Justice.

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  1. Pockets & badges make it very official, I guess.

    Ha! We were on a long slow bus in L.A. recently
    & encountered a (very friendly but untrained)
    dog wearing one of these who we later saw on
    the beach sans vest. He was doing un-service
    like things on the crowded bus, nosing people’s
    crotches & stuff, & his owner didn’t react outwardly.

    I should sell doggie vests online for $150, might
    be a good winter gig. If I put one on my dog, I’d
    at least keep track of him in busy places, I think.
    Anyhow it’s ridiculous to prohibit dogs anywhere.
    even where I work there are lots of little pooches
    running around & it’s fine, even with muslims who
    avoid the dogs but don’t seem too offended.

  2. Personally, if I were disabled and needed a service dog and I ran into an untrained dog wearing one of these things I’d have a real problem. I suppose these people also have one of those fake hang tags in their car so they can park in handicapped spaces? It’s no different.
    I have friends with dogs that do not get along with other dogs. What happens when they end up in a confined space with a dog whose presence is required by its owner?
    Sorry, but there are reasons for these laws.

  3. Wow. Thanks for suggesting to your readers that they should “fake” a service animal, commit federal fraud and disrespect the disabled who truly need service dogs to function in life and spend thousands of dollars and hundreds of hours to properly train their service animals. You are truly the scum of the earth.

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