12:45 pm Today Richland County Administration Building South Carolina

[rcems629]

*Forgot to mention a big THANK YOU! to Forest Acres Pet Supplies, Lamont Miller for his helping me train Bandit and others that helped out over there too.*

[rcems629]

*Only I have done some training with the STARR TEAM. DOG TRAINING STARTS AFTER FOOTBALL SEASON* All training you see here is training I have done on my own. Director thinks he is above the law violated my ADA Service Animal Rights and SC State Criminal Law Rights. I tried to talk with him before K-9 Fargo Memorial & After. He has a known bad habit of not getting back to his own STARR TEAM people.

[allergiesrusdb]

If you are worried about labeling yourself as vulnerable because of a 'service dog' patch, then there is one perfect patch for your pup: 'In Training'. Most, if not all, people will assume that you are training your service dog for someone living with disability. I've been training service dogs for 2 years and when not in my wheelchair, 100% of the time people think I'm training Sarge for someone else. In fact, many times I get thanked for doing such valuable work! :). And I have never had

[rcems629]

I am a Disabled Public Safety Officer. My Dog and I have been training with the STARR Search Team. I am hoping Bandit gets the chance to become a STARR CERTIFIED DOG too. I have been working with him in a public dog park getting dog park members to hide items with my Grandfather's scent on them. He with all distractions around sometimes must be reminded to get back to work. But some of the dog park members are very impressed I will try to get someone to volunteer videoing us soon doing that.

[rcems629]

I then may as well walk around with a label informing people I am a disabled vonerable adult look at me I could then be a Target for assault or maybe even something worse.

[allergiesrusdb]

My favorite place to get patches is at Service Dog Warehouse. (You'll have to Google it as I can't remember the exact address). You might have to get a custom patch made if you want it to say 'PTSD Service Dog Don't Ask'. You can just get a 'Service Dog' patch for him, as you don't need to label what your disability is. My pups patch simply says 'Service Dog Working Do Not Distract'. (It's no ones business). ~Kelley

[rcems629]

I am a Disabled Public Safety Officer, I can no longer work the street's anymore. My Service Dog and I went to Hospital to visit my Grandfather. For the first 10 minutes he was bad and I reminded my Mom about Bandit has trained to find thank goodness he kept his mouth shut. He was so excited to find my Grandfather Alive! He kept trying to get in bed with him.

[rcems629]

@rcems629 So, some of you think I should mark him up differently anyone know of any professional looking PTSD SERVICE DOG DON'T ASK! Clip on or patches?

[LarimeWD]

While you are correct on the laws themselves mislabeling your SD is actually making you More visible than you would otherwise be. If you want to be ambiguous about your disability, which I can understand as someone with a mental disability they you would be better off just putting In Training patches or Working dog in Training. At least then you aren't going to confuse the general public as to the rights of a Non service dogs, because SAR's dogs do not have public access rights.

[allergiesrusdb]

I am also confused about the patches on your dog. I can understand how people in the public can question your dog. It is extremely confusing. (Remember, S&R dogs do not have public access rights unless they are in work mode). Also, if other S&R teams see you in public, they might wrongly assume that their dog has public access rights.

It didn't appear your rights were violated because you were able to remain in the building and conduct your business. Yes you were questioned at first, but

[rcems629]

For those who do not know Bandit & I are also training with the starrsearchteam com I am not required to BILLBOARD my Dog as a Service Dog.

[chicagocanine]

@rcems629 True, but I think that the "search and rescue dog in training" patch may confuse some people when you tell them it's a service dog and the patch says something different. Unfortunately, I've noticed some businesses do have signs that say "Guide Dogs Only" which really annoys me and is inaccurate as they must allow ALL service dogs... But it makes me wonder if that place has a sign like that, since the person said something about a sign and being blind?

[DancingsDreamers]

Her comments "well you aren't blind are you?" and asking about the "sign outside" to me is a sign of ignorance of the law. Sadly you had to show them the ADA in order for them to accept your dog as a service dog. But once they did see it, they seemed in compliance. I think this is going to happen a great deal all over the country until people ARE educated about the law and about service dogs being more than "guide" dogs.