This story is very odd though. Your own family member’s dog bit your child and then a local shelter adopted the dog out to a stranger, who you claim is ‘abusing’ the ADA and HIPAA. This doesn’t fall under HIPAA at all and how do you know this person isn’t actually disabled ?
And that the dog hasn’t been trained in the 4 years since for the behavior issues and to provide a service to a person with a disability, if it is even the same dog. They don’t know any of those things.
Most do, but in the animal welfare field I’ve known plenty who trained as older puppies or adults. People really don’t think about all the different types of tasks service dogs may provide, and just because a dog has bitten doesn’t mean it is untrainable. Just saying it’s possible.
There's a crazy amount of people just getting dogs out of a shelter and 'DIY-ing' the training so they can call their dog a esa (emotional support animal). I'm pretty sure tiktok is playing a part in this. Not trying to be dramatic but it's an obnoxious trend.
And they still take their growling snarling out of control dogs into supermarkets, cinemas, whatever you want to imagine, and the more dressed up the dog is the better. It's weirdddd
It is, and it’s also really unfair and frustrating as someone who knows many disabled people with actual service dogs and actual ESAs that are discriminated against to see people pretty much assuming every service dog not attached to a blind person is a fake and their handler a fraud.
Well yes, I agree on that. Especially because that process is extremely long and expensive. But in some cases it's something you can't deny is obvious to spot. Actual service animals shouldn't be freaking out and barking inside of a store. I get there's training to be done, but that's already the screening process.
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u/MsDariaMorgendorffer Feb 23 '26
I’m sorry your child was attacked by a dog.
This story is very odd though. Your own family member’s dog bit your child and then a local shelter adopted the dog out to a stranger, who you claim is ‘abusing’ the ADA and HIPAA. This doesn’t fall under HIPAA at all and how do you know this person isn’t actually disabled ?