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If a blind woman enters your office with her dog and it poops on the rug you may be rather peeved over the event - but seeing eye dogs are exceedingly rare and
by munk-a 5y ago
If a blind woman enters your office with her dog and it poops on the rug you may be rather peeved over the event - but seeing eye dogs are exceedingly rare and blindness itself is a rather uncommon condition. I think part of the issue with ESAs was that suddenly they were everywhere - it didn't come on as a slow adaptation - it exploded like a fad because, well, it was one to a big portion of the population abusing it. I really don't want to comment on ESAs personally since I've led a very happy life free from rape or other emotional distress - but the desirability of having an ESA led to it's adoption at a far higher rate than was likely warranted (along with a fair bit of poisoning the well IMO) and so public opinion turned against it.
Additionally the blind tend to have a harder time interacting with society and a great deal of patience and fortitude is required to hold down a job when vision disabled - this means that the people receiving the benefits of their assistive dogs flying for free generally needed that assistance - emotional damage covers a wider financial range that's less likely to garner any sympathy.
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- jazzyjackson 5y agoActual support animals are so well trained I’d be shocked if there was a single occurrence of one pooping on someone’s rug. I was recently on a 76 hour train sitting a few rows back from a support dog in training: not a peep out of him the entire ride, was able to hold his bladder for the infrequent smoke stops, I couldn’t believe the capability of the trainer to get a dog acting so professionally xD
- tomjen3 5y agoHonestly I wouldn't be peeved over the event, I would just demand she pay for a new rug, plus any incidental costs.
- foxyv 5y agoI think the huge number of ESAs are a symptom of the problems our country is having with mental health. So many people are suffering from untreated or poorly controlled mood and personality disorders. Dogs in the grocery store are a cheap therapy that some people need because that is literally all they can afford. On the other hand it's frustrating to see dogs in the supermarket licking stuff and snagging cookies off the bottom shelf of the supermarket. What's worse is when owners then put it back leaving me wondering if I'm getting dog slobber with my package of oatmeal cookies. Not to mention barking and lunging dogs sometimes make aisles impassable. Luckily it's gotten a lot more rare lately. I think people quickly realize that taking poorly trained animals out in public just makes their lives harder.