# Dear Weirdo: please curb your so-called "service dog" **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 27, 2017, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-weirdo-please-curb-your-so-called-service-dog/780903 "2017-02-27T00:51:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![russian\_heel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f05b48/32.png) [@russian\_heel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/russian_heel)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2017, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-weirdo-please-curb-your-so-called-service-dog/780903/1 "2017-02-27T00:51:53Z")
NOT seeing eye dogs. Im talking about these old people or emotional weirdos that have conned establishments to let them bring their pets inside because they are “service animals”. Now, im not sure exactly what “service” a fluffy white poodle provides while sitting in a basket next to a bluehair playing a slot machine, but OK you win. Somehow you and various quacks in the mental health community have declared certain people cant live without being with their mutts 24/7 and to deny them entry because they want to bring their pet inside is denial of service because of a medical condition and no one wants to get sued. What a casino should NOT have to do is clean up the dog shit your Fido left right on the carpeted hallway by the elevator. Im not sure what skills a “service animal” possesses if it isn’t even housebroken but is it too much to ask you at least clean up its mess? Or alert hotel staff of the accident? I don’t care what so-called condition you have, Ma’am but just walking away after your dog shit all over the casino is gross and disgusting and inconsiderate of others. Fuck you fuck your dog and I hope you lose every dime you own on the slots you bitch. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk ---
**Author:** ![Fruitbat2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5e9695/32.png) [@Fruitbat2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fruitbat2)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2017, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-weirdo-please-curb-your-so-called-service-dog/780903/2 "2017-02-27T00:53:57Z")
LOL! I do not recall ever seeing such a thing but now I will be on the lookout. 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2017, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-weirdo-please-curb-your-so-called-service-dog/780903/3 "2017-02-27T00:58:46Z")
I see people with “service animals” (dogs) all over the fucking place here in Las Vegas. It’s a trend I don’t care for. I was at the Post Office a few weeks ago and one of the guys behind the counter turned a man with a small dog away, telling him he couldn’t bring the animal inside unless it was a Seeing Eye dog (which it clearly was not and the guy was clearly not blind). The doofus tried to argue that since there was no sign saying he couldn’t bring it in, he was allowed. The Postal Employee was having none of that and the guy left while hurling curse words and invective at the employee. I happened to get called to his counter when it was my turn and I loudly thanked him for his actions. Fuck your dog and fuck you, asshole. ---
**Author:** ![shiftless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9c0ed/32.png) [@shiftless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shiftless)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2017, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-weirdo-please-curb-your-so-called-service-dog/780903/4 "2017-02-27T01:00:41Z")
I would say the dog ‘serviced’ the casino where the old lady lost her money quite nicely. Next time I visit a casino I might have to bring a large service dog, just in case the dice turn on me. ---
**Author:** ![Hung\_Mung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e4f/32.png) [@Hung\_Mung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hung_Mung)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2017, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-weirdo-please-curb-your-so-called-service-dog/780903/5 "2017-02-27T01:19:37Z")
I don’t know when this became a thing, but my local facebook group has been bitching up a storm about this. I don’t much care if the dog is well behaved/owner isn’t a moron. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2017, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-weirdo-please-curb-your-so-called-service-dog/780903/6 "2017-02-27T02:17:20Z")
My Service Dog is very helpful to me in the Vegas casinos, at the slot machines and the blackjack tables, for you see, I have no arms or legs. ---
**Author:** ![kayT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayt/32/3633_2.png) [@kayT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayT)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2017, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-weirdo-please-curb-your-so-called-service-dog/780903/7 "2017-02-27T02:25:49Z")
I wonder about people who have allergies and have to buy goods in stores where dogs have been wandering. I have allergies (not to dogs), and this seems wrong. Also, I don’t really like the idea of dog drool or dog hair (or worse) on the jeans or towels I am about to buy. Yes I am going to wash these things when I get them home. So what? I even see this in grocery stores. Ugh. I like dogs, probably more than I like the people they belong to. I just prefer to do my shopping in dog-free zones. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2017, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-weirdo-please-curb-your-so-called-service-dog/780903/8 "2017-02-27T02:29:13Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > My Service Dog is very helpful to me in the Vegas casinos, at the slot machines and the blackjack tables, for you see, I have no arms or legs. Then how do you play the ukulele? ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2017, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-weirdo-please-curb-your-so-called-service-dog/780903/9 "2017-02-27T02:29:56Z")
I want something cool, like a service grizzly bear. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2017, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-weirdo-please-curb-your-so-called-service-dog/780903/10 "2017-02-27T02:40:32Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > Then how do you play the ukulele? Ah, but I DON’T play the uke. Saxophone, cornet, flute, tuba, piano, yes. Uke, no. Ho do I play the other things? Sky hooks. ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2017, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-weirdo-please-curb-your-so-called-service-dog/780903/11 "2017-02-27T03:00:16Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > Ah, but I DON’T play the uke. Saxophone, cornet, flute, tuba, piano, yes. Uke, no. > > Ho do I play the other things? Sky hooks. What happens if you fall on the floor? ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2017, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-weirdo-please-curb-your-so-called-service-dog/780903/12 "2017-02-27T03:08:22Z")
> [@russian\_heel](#): > > I hope you lose every dime you own on the slots you bitch. Interestingly enough, as I understand it, that is, in fact, the casino’s plan. ---
**Author:** ![Springtime\_for\_Spacers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Springtime\_for\_Spacers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Springtime_for_Spacers)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2017, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-weirdo-please-curb-your-so-called-service-dog/780903/13 "2017-02-27T03:13:06Z")
> [@SteveG1](#): > > I want something cool, like a service grizzly bear. I’ll bring my service honey badger to meet him or her. We can hang out by the bee hives, it’ll be well cool. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2017, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-weirdo-please-curb-your-so-called-service-dog/780903/14 "2017-02-27T03:17:43Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > I see people with “service animals” (dogs) all over the fucking place here in Las Vegas. It’s a trend I don’t care for. > > I was at the Post Office a few weeks ago and one of the guys behind the counter turned a man with a small dog away, telling him he couldn’t bring the animal inside unless it was a Seeing Eye dog (which it clearly was not and the guy was clearly not blind). The doofus tried to argue that since there was no sign saying he couldn’t bring it in, he was allowed. The Postal Employee was having none of that and the guy left while hurling curse words and invective at the employee. I happened to get called to his counter when it was my turn and I loudly thanked him for his actions. > > Fuck your dog and fuck you, asshole. I know it’s a local law (and I honestly thought it was true at the federal level, too) that a business is not allowed to ask the nature of the disability. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2017, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-weirdo-please-curb-your-so-called-service-dog/780903/15 "2017-02-27T03:18:06Z")
> [@Springtime\_for\_Spacers](#): > > I’ll bring my service honey badger to meet him or her. We can hang out by the bee hives, it’ll be well cool. Good. The honey badger can protect my bear 😃 ---
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2017, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-weirdo-please-curb-your-so-called-service-dog/780903/16 "2017-02-27T03:42:18Z")
In my hosital we are forbidden to challenge whether it’s a legitimate service animal for a legitimate need, but all animal needs are the owner’s responsibility. ---
**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2017, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-weirdo-please-curb-your-so-called-service-dog/780903/17 "2017-02-27T03:46:13Z")
> [@russian\_heel](#): > > What a casino should NOT have to do is clean up the dog shit your Fido left right on the carpeted hallway by the elevator. Dunno what you are talking about. Actual service dogs do not shit/piss whenever they feel like it. They are highly trained…wait for it…service dogs. They know their job and they DO NOT poop as they like. Whatever you saw was something else and if the law has changed to allow Floofykins to be a “service dog” cuz grandma can’t be without her that is fucked. Grandma needs to get over it or get a properly trained, super expensive service dog or, better still, stay home. ---
**Author:** ![GaryM](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garym/32/241_2.png) [@GaryM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GaryM)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2017, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-weirdo-please-curb-your-so-called-service-dog/780903/18 "2017-02-27T03:46:21Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > I know it’s a local law (and I honestly thought it was true at the federal level, too) that a business is not allowed to ask the nature of the disability. However they are allowed to ask what service the animal is trained to provide ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2017, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-weirdo-please-curb-your-so-called-service-dog/780903/19 "2017-02-27T03:52:27Z")
Why is the OP assuming it was the dog that shit on the carpet? ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2017, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-weirdo-please-curb-your-so-called-service-dog/780903/20 "2017-02-27T03:56:16Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > My Service Dog is very helpful to me in the Vegas casinos, at the slot machines and the blackjack tables, for you see, I have no arms or legs. I bet you’re the worst ukulele player wherever you go. 😛 ETA: Late to the game; I see **Thudlow** and **Ike** already covered this territory! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-weirdo-please-curb-your-so-called-service-dog/780903.md?page=2)