Service animals are defined as dogs that are individually trained to do work or perform tasks for people with disabilities. Examples of such work or tasks include guiding people who are blind, alerting people who are deaf, pulling a wheelchair, alerting and protecting a person who is having a seizure, reminding a person with mental illness to take prescribed medications, and even alerting a diabetic individual when there insulin is low. Service animals are working animals, not pets. The work or task a dog has been trained to provide must be directly related to the person’s disability. This level of training is the legal requirement to label your animal as a Service Animal. Dogs whose sole function is to provide comfort or emotional support do not qualify as service animals under the ADA.
What is a Service Animal?
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My dog already knows what to do if I need help
How do I prove my husband's service animal is a service animal if he is dead, and the somebody stole the paperwork out of the car that night he died? She was trained in Arizona. She does the same service for me... interrupts inappropriate behaviors or over-emotional thought patterns, also keys on seizure activity. How do I get a new certification for her? Do I need to put her in a new school in my city? I have a letter from a psychiatrist stating that she is necessary for those tasks, and that they are not responsible for what training they have had. Does that count as something I can state her as a service animal with?
Where can you get your personal dog train?
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