Time - The Beaver Dam Daily Citizen [WI] reports the city’s Common Council voted 14-0 to define a service animal as a dog or miniature horse, but not a kangaroo. Police can cite people who try to use other animals.
Beaver Dam police say [a] woman wrapped [a] baby kangaroo in a blanket and tucked it in an infant car seat, then took it inside a McDonald’s in February. The woman has said the kangaroo is a therapy animal to help her cope with emotional distress.
City Attorney Maryann Schacht says the changes comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act.
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Maybe this issue is new to you, Sam, but I've been bothered about it for a while. The "Service Animal" dodge is getting pretty old - everybody's furry pal is now a therapy animal and I can't get a break from these pets in disguise anyplace I go. The stretch of the idea of "service animals" to cover emotional comfort has really degraded the essential function of necessary animals such as seeing eye dogs. There oughta be a law...
8:58, You are so right. Real assistance animals, are trained to be well behaved and unobtrusive in places where animals usually don't go. Real assistance animal are great.
I'm sick of people dragging poorly behaved dogs into grocery stores, restaurants, and everywhere imaginable. They say the animals are "assistance animals", but if the animal won't listen to it's owner and is pacing slobbering shedding and begging for attention from strangers all the while, it's a pet, and should have been left at home or outside the door. I find it interesting that the rights of pet owners who can't be parted from their poorly behaved dogs, trumps the rights of people who have dog dander allergies.
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