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Bob
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Bob asked in Politics & GovernmentMilitary · 8 years ago

Should vets with post tramatic stress not be allowed to have service dogs?

Or at the very least,keep them out of restaurants?

Update:

Whoa,I never said I think this should be the case.

Just playing the D's advocate.

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  • 8 years ago
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    If a service dog helps them , then let them have one.

    ADA law is a law, properly trained and certified dogs do not disrupt any business

    Source(s): U.S.Army Disabled Veteran 19K20 M1A1 Abrams Heavy MBT 1990-1996
  • 8 years ago

    No. Dogs are the only thing proven 100% of the time to help ANYONE with PTSD. Most Vets have to train their own service dogs since the waiting list is years long. Any person can take a service dog into a restaurant or business and no one can ask them to prove it is a service dog, or that person can get sued for violating that persons civil rights. If the dog honestly is a service dog, it will just sit quietly while the people are eating and not bother anyone. Dogs behave better than most children. My dogs are trained to wake me when I have nightmares.....keep me from commiting suicide and they protect me while I sleep. I personally don't take my dogs out in public simply because my dogs are so super trained and other people's dogs are not. So for the safety of my dogs I let them stay home.

  • Will B
    Lv 7
    8 years ago

    You might try showing a little compassion, instead of being stuck up. Those guys have been the closest you can be to hell on earth, and are trying to make an effort to live with those events, and a service dog can be big help.

    What they do not need, is a snobby little twit who won't make an effort to try think of someone other than themselves. Attitudes like yours, sir, are the cause of some of the biggest problems our society faces today.

    Do some research, and try to be a little more understanding of others. And I pray that you will never need, for any reason, a service animal. Although, it would be interesting to see your attitude do a 180.

  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    This is only my opinion.

    A service dog does not necessarily have to be a seeing eye dog, or help someone in a wheel chair, or a wounded vet. A service dog can also provide comfort and companionship. PTSD is very difficult to live with, and if the dog is needed for comfort, even in a restaurant, it should be allowed. Perhaps it is very hard for the vet to go out in public, and the dog helps overcome that fear. Taking that away would not be beneficial to the vets recovery at all.

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  • Nex
    Lv 6
    8 years ago

    You don't seem to have an actual argument as to why they shouldn't and i'm guessing someone had a service dog in the restaurant you were eating at and you didn't like it.

    THE WORLD WILL NOT ADJUST FOR YOU.

  • 8 years ago

    It has been proven in a number of studies that dogs have a calming effect on people. Just sitting and petting your dog is calming. Service dogs are allowed in restaurants in most states and you can not do much about it. Perhaps you should eat at home.

  • 8 years ago

    i would rather eat with dogs

    than some people

    dogs are cleaner than some people

    and less likely to do something dangerous

    suggest you use the drive up window

    then eat your meal alone in your car

  • Ray H
    Lv 7
    8 years ago

    Leave my brothers and sisters alone, they've earned the use of service dogs.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    8 years ago

    The simpler solution is to keep you out of restaurants.

    Everybody will be happier that way.

    Source(s): ***** 100% Disabled Vietnam Veteran - Former Navy Airborne Electronic Warfare Officer
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