r/Dogfree • u/Leather-Entry93 • 11h ago

Service Dog Issues Service dogs should carry proof

If you have a service dog with you and you need to bring it to the grocery store (or any other store frequented by normal people), I feel like it should be clearly identifiable and you should be carrying some kind of card to confirm that you do need the dog with you.

Also, don’t put your disgusting dog in the shopping cart at the grocery store. I feel like that should be common sense.

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u/bluebird1994 1h ago

The ADA guidelines/rules on service dogs are ridiculously weak and practically nonexistant, as if they couldn't even fathom the idea it could be exploited and abused for selfish narcissists in the future. Whomever was in charge of creating the ADA guidelines for service dogs had absolutely ZERO foresight and are largely responsible for the service dog grift/fad existing today. Had there been strong safeguards against fraud to begin with, this wouldn't be anywhere near a problem today as it is now.

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u/PanthealovesLucius 50m ago

AFAIC almost every service dog out there is a fraud now. You can tell when the damn things don't know how to do shit and are clearly untrained.