"Service Dogs" Blogs & Blog Posts

From the abstract of "Health and temperaments of cloned working dogs," a study published in the journal J Vet Sci: Only about half of all trained dogs may qualify as working dogs through conventional breeding management because proper temperament...

The era of emotional support squirrel on flights is over, as the Department of Transportation (DOT) ruled Wednesday that only dogs can be defined as service animals. Other animal companions used for emotional support will either have to be checked in...

• Whither the in-flight emotional support miniatures horses? • “Officials highlighted a few areas where they are most eager to get comments, including whether miniatures horses should continue to qualify as service animals” Proposed new FAA...

Guide dogs and other service dogs are not pets, and federal law protects their right to go anywhere that their owners are allowed to be. Yet the owner of a Popeyes restaurant in Brooklyn wasn’t clear on that concept, and used the “no pets” poli...

Hopes&Fears has a beautiful feature up today on the lives of service dogs for people with psychiatric disabilities and mental illnesses. (more…)...

Divit is a guide dog, who has been trained to keep his owner safe and independent and to have impeccable manners in public. Yet Divit’s owner says that they were left at the curb on their way to a vet appointment, simply because the driver assi...

Months after the National Federation of the Blind claimed in a federal civil rights lawsuit that some of Uber’s drivers have discriminated against blind passengers by refusing to pick them up when they had guide dogs — and in one case, al...