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Wow. My daughter has had a medical alert dog (service dog) for six years. She has type one diabetes and her dog detects rise and fall in blood sugars and ‘alerts’ our daughter to the change. There is no doubt in my mind her life has been saved more than once because of her service dog. Her dog had very extensive obedience training and behaves better in public than most grade school aged children. I witness kids’ beaviors worth complaining about versus our dog. And she has a sign on her vest that says ‘please do not pet’. It is a distraction, and can be costly to her ability to detect the blood sugar changes.
It is unfortunate that people ‘fake’ service dogs in public places and take advantage of the rights we have for ours. Businesses have the right to ask us for our certification papers and what ‘jobs’ the service dog can carry out. They can do this without asking what disability our daughter has. I actually have been in Walmart when I wish they would ask us these things and ask the others the same thing we saw with their ‘service dog’.
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