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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Bringing your dog into every freaking store. [/quote]

I bring my dog wherever he's allowed. Get over it.[/quote]

So you are TA! They are not legally allowed, the business just chooses to ignore it. Stop being TA and leave your mangy dog at home.[/quote]

Probably not a dog but an "Emotional Support Animal," so the TA doesn't have to pay a pet deposit or pet rent.[/quote]

Right! Work the system to the max. We had this happen in my building where no pets were allowed of any sort. Suddenly all these people had papers showing their dog is an emotional support animal. Give me a break. [/quote]

I used to be a dog trainer, and I can't even count the number of emotional support dogs I saw who were extremely neglected.

Often the people who get an ESA have extreme depression, anxiety, PTSD, addition, etc. And maybe the dog does help them, but at some point they go through a depressive episode or drinking binge and neglect the dog.

Often I was hired by their parents to "help" and the stuff I saw was horrific. Like the guy with PTSD who was so drunk for a full week, he did not take his Great Dane out. There was dog waste all over the floor, along with broken glass and nails from where the owner had dropped bottles and ripped up floorboards.

Or owners would have such severe depression or social anxiety, they never took their dog out, which ruined the house training, and now this dog peed and pooped everywhere because it was only taken out every couple days (if that).

Always boggled my mind that their parents were not only complicit, but actively encouraged their kids to get dogs. Often the issue was the parents refused to set boundaries and financed and managed their adult child's entire life. It's a parenting problem, not a pet problem.[/quote]

Wow. That’s disturbing.

I saw a man with his dog well behind him at the Miami airport. The dog (male) stoped and peed on a wall and the man kept going. It was disgusting and unsafe. [/quote]

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