My town had its annual "Pumpkin Festival" yesterday, which is just a big craft and vendor fair with food trucks and local organizations cooking stuff like fried dough and burgers and such. Dogs are never allowed, but people bring them anyway. Some were pissed they were turned away when others weren't. This sparked a huge debate about service dogs and emotional support dogs on Facebook. (more) #DogsOfCoSo
The police department made a post about how dogs weren't allowed and then made mention of "therapy" dogs. I commented as an FYI that there's a difference between therapy, service and emotional support dogs. And went into the descriptions. One guy jumped all over me and called me stupid and told me to "read the laws." I think he, himself, was confused. (more) #DogsOfCoSo
His argument (and he was definitely arguing) was that ESAs are protected under state law and I'm stupid. So I sent him a lovely link that says they're not. Not even under the ADA. Gotta love the keyboard warriors who swear they're right and didn't even check first. My ultimate point is.. service dogs are wonderful. Bringing your pet everywhere because you want to and faking that it's a service dog is not. #DogsOfCoSo
Oh! Angry guy is back again in the comments. This time he's like "Well, whatever! All I needed was a prescription and my dog is legally protected." So I so kindly sent him the ADA link. Just in case the state law wasn't good enough. Keep on backpedaling buddy. I'm gonna humble you a little today. #DogsOfCoSo