#service cats

[liuwithheadcanons]

Idc that US America doesn’t allow service cats but Canada does in my verse service cats are legal everywhere because I SAID SO

imo service cats should be a lot more well known (aKa I have a Canadian friend who is attacked cause of their service cat when it’s perfectly fuckin legal)

[scrubdaddydippedinliquidnitrogen]

Buying a service vest for your pet or claiming they're a service/therapy animal when they are not is exploiting physical and mental disabilities as well as mental illness.

¡¡¡Saying your pet is a service animal when they're not is not okay!!!!

[dissolutionandcreation]

May i ask for links to all your Disney princess service dogs pictures? I saw the belle one and I /have/ to see the others. Also, I thought you might be interested to know my friend had a service cat. He's in charge of her meds ^u^

Certainly!! This tag should have them all. :) 

Cool about your friend too! Service cats aren’t recognized in the US unfortunately, but I bet they make great helpers since they tend to be very intelligent! I’m allergic though, so I’ll be sticking to a dog lol. 

[dissolutionandcreation]

Do you ever think you will do art of a Disney princess with a service CAT? I know they are not as common, but sometimes cats are a good replacement for people with dog allergies

Cats can be great emotional support animals (ESAs), but they don’t actually qualify as service animals with public access rights (at least not here in the US). 

Here’s a little excerpt from the ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act): 

“A service animal is any dog that is individually trained to do work or perform tasks for the benefit of an individual with a disability, including a physical, sensory, psychiatric, intellectual, or other mental disability. Other species of animals, whether wild or domestic, trained or untrained, are not considered service animals.”

The only exception are trained miniature horses, which are often used for people allergies or religious concerns about dogs :D 

“A public entity or private business must allow a person with a disability to bring a miniature horse on the premises as long as it has been individually trained to do work or perform tasks for the benefit of the individual with a disability, as long as the facility can accommodate the miniature horse’s type, size, and weight.  The rules that apply to service dogs, outlined below, also apply to miniature horses.”

Since I’m not focusing on ESAs for this project, I won’t be doing a cat, but cats are definitely cute and I wholly support them becoming ESAs for people with psychiatric disabilities! 

[chaosnight1-blog]

Please sign

https://www.change.org/p/add-cats-as-a-legal-service-animal

Not all service animals are dogs Not everyone can have a dog Cats are just as good Cats may be superior to dogs when it comes to medical alert and ptsd , autism etc Cat are a lot easier to train than people think especially with clicker training and cat breeds are really easy to train , quite a few people already have cats as service animals and they are legal in certain states Here are the best breeds for service work Abyssidian Bengal Saimese Burmese Bombay Savannah Maine coon Sphinx Turkish van Domestic shorthairs can be trained but they may be a little harder

[chaosnight1-blog]

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://www.seeker.com/why-cats-could-make-skilled-search-and-rescue-animals-2277969871.html&ved=0ahUKEwizmtf_78DSAhVPzWMKHUwUDgUQFggaMAA&usg=AFQjCNGU1t1dfM309HM9viO3xdvZo-LuFg&sig2=DlWWzm6PNEfqYQ1jiAmLYg This an interesting read, cats do have the potential to be search and rescue and service animals, cats are actually not as hard to train as a lot of people think Some breeds do take longer than other bread and dogs . Cats also may be superior to dogs when it comes to being medical alert animal do to being able to discriminate odors better than dogs The best breeds for work are Abyssidian Bengal Saimese Burmese Maine coon Savannah Bombay Sphinx Turkish van Savannah These breeds are very intelligent, active and dog like which makes them easiest to train I really hope cats can be as search and rescue animal to search for missing person or missing pets and be added back to ADA Laws as service animals

[thepoodlepack]

Oh My God