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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The typical "faking a service dog" type behavior.

You're fooling NO ONE. I'd say most people  have experience in knowing someone with a real service dog so they know how a real service animal will behave.

A dog pulling its way through Target is not a real service animal. A dog begging at a table in a restaurant is not a real service animal. A dog who wags its tail at every person walking down the airplane aisle is not a real service animal.

Working service dogs do not get distracted. They do not beg for food. They do not pull on their leash unless they are attempting to get help.

[/quote] +1   I was in safeway a few months ago. A man and his dog were in line. There was an endcap right next to them; the dog took a step toward the endcap and sniffed the items on the bottom shell.  A real service dog stays very close to the owner, with total attention on the owner. [b]They do not even take one step away, let alone sniff stuff.[/b] [/quote]

That's just not true. Service dogs are not robots. I've worked with blind people who had seeing eye dogs that accompanied them to work and conferences etc. and those dogs do sniff things that smell especially stimulating, like food. They do step more than a step away from their person. They do wag their tails and accept affection when offered. They are not robots.[/quote] Not when they are working, they don't. My friend has a cane corso that she's trained to be her service dog.  When she's in a grocery store, her dog doesn't leave her side. He doesn't sniff anything or anyone.  He has his full attention on her.  When he's "off" he sniffs and is a very friendly and regular dog.  But that's her diligent training.  She can't have her very large cane corso approaching people, and she certainly has him trained not to sniff around the grocery store or any time that he's working.[/quote]

Sorry, but you are full of excrement. Did I not say that I WORKED with people who had seeing eye dogs? THE DOGS WERE WORKING, after professional training at The Seeing Eye, and they sniffed, wagged their tails, accepted pats from coworkers.

I doubt your story is even true, and if it is, it's disturbing. [b]A cane corso as a service dog? Those dogs are lethal. Sounds like your friend has a potentially lethal weapon as her ESA that she calls a service dog. [/b][/quote]

"Self trained" corso or pit. They're the truck nutz of service dogs. [/quote]

Exactly. Those are fighting dogs bred for thousands of doggy generations to be impervious to pain and killing machines. A cane corso as a ‘service’ dog is a sick joke. [b]And most true service dogs are NOT self trained, ESAs are self trained. 
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As another poster pointed out, the service dog foundations use retrievers and shepherds and poodles because they are among the most intelligent and most reliable temperamentally, thus most effectively trained.

And for the poster who asked - the seeing eye goldens and shepherds I worked with because I had blind coworkers accepted affection after I was invited to give it by their owners/handlers.

I think people are confused because while it is true that service dogs shouldn’t be approached when they are in training and/or working without permission of the handler, once a service dog is trained well and the training is locked in, it is well within the acceptable parameters for the handler to say to coworkers, feel free to stop by my office and offer affection to my seeing eye dog while s/he is laying at my feet and I am working at my desk/computer etc. The dogs are not robots. They love people and affection like any dog does and it would be cruel to deny them any attention outside of the handler’s attention just because they also have a job.

For the record I am also a former prosecutor who worked with cops who had K9 partners and I’ve petted those dogs, too![/quote] The ADA does not require them to be professionally trianed to qualify as a service dog.  Of course most people are not up for that task.   It takes tons of work and dedication. [/quote]

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