[Artemisia] service animals at SCA events

[Redhawk]

much snipage..
I agree with you Morgan.  My dogs are companion dogs as well.  When I broke my 
arm in many many pieces all of them wanted to lay on it to protect the arm.  
While being confine to the recline for so many months my dogs all of them, 
napped on me.  They knew.  When I could finally make it to the barn, even the 
horses knew.  They were calmer and quieter.  I miss them terribly when I attend 
events that are a no pets event.  Sometimes I'll bring a couple and leave them 
in the car and go out and take them around the block.  Which is yet another 
thing.. if folks do that, please bring bags to pick up your dogs' droppings so 
we don't leave a mess for others to step in. The no pet thing at events, it 
happens.  What gets me is at times folks will argue about this until a person 
has a pounding headache and their eyes glaze over.  If a pet is clearly a 
'service' animal, it really isn't a pet any more.  It is a 'working' dog. Leave 
it alone.  Don't pet it or distract the dog from it's job.  Be respectfull when 
a person knows the place they are going is a no pet site or event or what ever.  
I'm wondering what happened to that word "Respect".  Most folks have it.  There 
are some that can really blow it.
Redhawk

 



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From: morgan wolf <morganblaidddu at yahoo.com>
To: Kingdom of Artemisia mailing list <artemisia at lists.gallowglass.org>
Sent: Thu, March 17, 2011 6:18:31 PM
Subject: Re: [Artemisia] service animals at SCA events


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> From: Rebecca Mikkelsen <mikkelsen_rebecca at hotmail.com>
> To: artemisia at lists.gallowglass.org
> Sent: Thu, March 17, 2011 4:23:06 PM
> Subject: Re: [Artemisia] service animals at SCA events
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>While there is a very specific difference between Disability Service Animals, 
Therapy Animals, and Companion Animals, and the law only requires that the 
Service Animals be allowed into places where animals are normally not allowed, 
most businesses allow all three rather than risk offending a customer/client by 
asking for the dog's documentation.  

For me personally, no my dogs are not trained Service Animals, but they are most 

definitely Companion Animals that not only know when I'm suffering agonizing 
spasms, they also do their best to physically comfort me (Mac will actually make 

himself into a backrest/heater ).
 Morgan 


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