ADA Accommodations for apartments

mom2collegekids
Sun, 27 Nov 2016 15:52:37 +0000

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Actually service dogs aren’t always with owner. Someone above mentioned sporting event. Daughter of friend has guide dog. She went to college football game wth her dad and dog stayed with her mom. Too much going and and hard for him to be comfortable with loud noise.

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Was this a true service dog or an ESA? Service dogs are trained not to be bothered by noise and distractions.

Either way, sure there may be some extreme exceptions…a SA doesn’t go into an operating room while his person is undergoing heart surgery. My point really was that those with ESAs often choose not to bring along their animals. Few young women would bring along an ESA on a first date. Few non-office indoor jobs let you bring along an ESA (as mentioned above, my friend’s DD is a restaurant server and obviously isn’t bringing along her ESA dog). I don’t see retail employees with an ESA by their side, yet some may have them at home.

Recently I was about to board a plane and the woman behind me was “wearing” her ESA in a front-body-carrier, similar to what parents use to carry babies (a medium-sized dog of about 30-40lbs). Her dog was blind (literally had no eyes). Don’t get me wrong, she probably can’t easily leave him behind (I have a blind dog, too, so I understand). Sure, maybe the dog gives her some comfort, many of us are nervous flyers, but it just looked like some sort of scam in order to bring along her special-needs pet onto the plane who would normally be too big to be crated to fit under the seat. This way, the dog didn’t have to fly cargo, and could sit on “mommy’s” lap the whole flight…for free. A child that size would not be allowed to sit on a parent’s lap the whole flight.

Although this may not apply to NY, I did read that some areas will allow a landlord to insist that the renter show proof that the renter is mentally DISABLED and needs the ESA to live. Simply having a mental illness is not enough. Being disabled is the benchmark in some areas. If the OP’s renter’s girlfriend is not disabled (has a job, etc) then she would not meet the req’t.