Comment by bradleyjg
20 hours ago
The woman is going to claim it’s a service animal. There’s no real rules about service animals—-and even where there are rules, like with learning disabilities, doctors and other professionals act like whores and sell their signatures to anyone with money. It’s widespread bad parenting for generations now. How can a store fight that?
> The woman is going to claim it’s a service animal. There’s no real rules about service animals
I agree with your overall point, but there are actually rules about what types of behavior are unacceptable for service animals. Uncontrolled or disruptive barking is one of those unacceptable behaviors.
The store would be entirely within their right to warn this person and remove the owner and/or ban the “service animal”.
That said, unless you have a legal team that aggressively embraces these sorts of acts against people who abuse the service animal rules, it’s almost always more practical just to let it go. Some of these folks have significant psychological issues, and you’ve already lost once you’ve entered a conflict with an unstable person.
Only if the rest of society won’t back you up. Which is the real issue. Society in general has turned into a bunch of lazy cowards.
If anything, the rest of society acts like you're the one out of line for confronting people who entitle themselves to bring their pet with them.