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Barked: Tue Sep 18, '07 8:55pm PST 
Having a service dog for over 10 years and having first hand experience in many confrontations, access denial, and ignorance to confront when accompanied by my medical assistance dog, I was very curious as to how many others have had issues. I am compiling a list of businesses that have denied or harrassed disabled people with their companions. Please let us know your thoughts on the subject and how you feel the laws should be changed on a state or federal level. My attention was directed to a chain store, Value Village in Spokane, Washington. I do believe that they finally succumbed to pressure. Please share your experiences with this group. And of course invite your friends to become members of this group as we are very serious about our canine assistants and ways to educate the public and businesses on our rights. dog
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Mordecai-SD

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Barked: Fri Mar 13, '09 8:01am PST 
I've had issues with Walmart of course. But that's nothing new. And I was visiting in another state, we don't have Walmart around here. Once on a rainy day we went into Costco and Mordecai had a rain coat on. They put up a fuss until I took the coat off and they could see the vest. Target fussed a bit once but only because they didn't open their eyes and look. Some local people had had issues at a local bar/restaurant but I didn't. We had trouble at a little Asian store once where none of the employees spoke English or knew about the ADA. Haven't been back to that one.
Access hasn't been a big issue for us. There's a lawyer around here who loves ADA lawsuits and since businesses fear lawsuits, they don't put up a fuss. But that means people without real SDs, just with ESAs or pets will try to bring them into a business.
But it's the looky-loos that drive me crazy. The people that send their kids to pet the dog, pet the dog themselves, tell their kids that I'm blind so I won't know if they do pet the dog (I am not blind, I have a PSD), telling children that my dog bites, talk to the dog and ignore me, try different tactics to get the dog's attention, get mad at me when I say they can't pet my dog, etc. I could take access issues all day if those other people would just leave me alone.
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