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Videogaming-related online strip by Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins. Includes news and commentary.
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Fake service animals. It's become a problem to the point where there are websites that sell "service animal" vests for your dog or what ever and certificates attesting to the fact that your pet guinea pig is a service animal. There are people out there other than blind people that have real service animals, like epileptics. Honestly, Gabe and Tycho do a excellent job skewering those people and the frustration and resignation airline employees must feel in dealing with them.
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Silly goose businesses are partly to blame for the fake service animal problem, and they're the ones who can do the most about it. Folks with fake service animals have flouted door signs at our local Safeway grocery store for years. Compare that with REI, whose door greeters politely tell customers with (clearly) non-service dogs that they can't bring them in. I've never seen anyone argue back. Done and done.
damn you. I only have another hour before I have to leave for work and there's no way I'll get through that archive before then.
My gut instinct is that the (persistent) fakers are MORE likely to get one of these vests than the non-fakers. I feel like the non-fakers are the ones that probably don't want to have to have the discussion, so they try not to call attention to themselves any more than they are required to.
For reference, in case people missed it.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/news/animalia/wp/2016/10/20/daniel-the-emotional-support-duck-takes-his-first-plane-ride-soars-in-popularity/
A friend's experience has been the people with a disability they have a service animal to help deal with have been pretty open about talking about the condition to spread awareness to others. I suspect it varies by regional culture though.
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And people who are color blind can't see dogs. All they can hear is the barking...
I was not aware of this comic but dig the art style and that linked comic made me want to read more.. so I am reading it now. thanks!
Eh it's more a joke about Gabe being an asshole and abusing the system.
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There's also people with therapy animals who abuse the service animal rules. They're not (usually) as bad as the jackasses with their unruly pets peeing on the floor in Wal Mart, but they're still causing pushback that impacts people with service animals unfairly. Some states I think have equated them, but in most places therapy animals are only legally distinct from regular pets in so far that your insurance will pay part of their upkeep, you can't take them in stores or restaurants.