Michigan Woman Brings Miniature Horse on Plane as Her Service Animal: 'He Is So Bonded with Me'

[Rorey]

45. We're going to just have to agree to disagree

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I did a lot of reading at the ADA.gov site.

I strongly suspect that the owner of this miniature horse is bending the system, or outright breaking the rules, because she knows that she can......because everyone is afraid of a lawsuit.

I will also put some text in bold. SHE SAID that her pet horse is a "service animal". Guess what. People lie.

If you go to the ADA.gov site, you can read this:

https://www.ada.gov/service_animals_2010.htm

When it is not obvious what service an animal provides, only limited inquiries are allowed. Staff may ask two questions: (1) is the dog a service animal required because of a disability, and (2) what work or task has the dog been trained to perform. Staff cannot ask about the person’s disability, require medical documentation, require a special identification card or training documentation for the dog, or ask that the dog demonstrate its ability to perform the work or task.

If you can post a link to a more current set of rules by the ADA, I'd like to check it out. I'm a landlord, so this issue is important to me. I'm pretty turned off when an applicant for one of my houses tries to pull one over on me by claiming that their pet is a service animal so they can bypass the rule that I have to have that they can't have a dog that's on the list of ones my insurance company doesn't allow.