Yes, allergies and asthma was only one possible reason.
What about people who are truly terrified of dogs? Those of you who have mental health issues and feel your dog helps you, should understand that another person might be set off by having a dog in a public place when they didn't expect it.
I have a friend who has a real dog phobia-she rarely visits me and when she does I have to swear that tiny little Lacey is in a crate and behind a closed door-she is still a wreck the whole time. If she were confronted by a dog popping it head out of a carrier she would have a panic attack.
My point from before is still the same-not to be argumentative-just a serious question-Whose "rights" are more important than anothers? Why should one handicap or illness be deemed more worth and given more rights than another?
Is being in a wheelchair more worthy of rights than serious asthma? Is being blind more worthy than a phobia?
In California, the school that my children attended allowed a young boy to bring his service dog to class. Two other children had to leave the school...was that fair?
AND again, hair on clothes does NOT set me off-for some reason...but the actual animal will...cats, birds, rabbits, most dogs and the list goes on...
I am still just asking for kindness and compassion-think of others and what harm your dog might cause. If you need your dog by all means take him/her with you when neccesary BUT please be thoughtful-don't sneak a dog in where someone might be taken unawares and don't insist your right to have your dog is somehow more important than anothers illness or fear, either.
Being a kind compassionate person means sometimes not insisting on having our way, even it it is within our "rights"! |