Fake Service Animals California
This was not a proposal for a fake service dog law but an exploration of the need for one.
Fake service animals california. In 2014 the New Yorkers Patricia Marx gallivanted freely around the city with five successive fake ESA creatures including a snake an alpaca and a pig named Daphne demonstrating how easy. In California the punishment for falsely claiming to have a service dog or be a trainer includes a fine of up to 1000 and up to six months in jail. Fake service dogs have disfigured at least six people and killed five since 2012.
Monday February 24 2014. Having a fake service animal is a misdemeanor according to legislation that became effective Jan. Badly behaved fake service dogs are hugely damaging to public perceptions of service animals.
The concerns about fake or problematic service animals voiced by palacio and others have drawn attention from officials as well. Businesses have been dealing for years with the hassles of accommodating customers and employees with service animals. The service dog reputation is at stake and its because some pet owners think no pet policies shouldnt apply.
Still trainers and those with service animals say theres a problemGet the full story in the video above. Fake service animals act like pets. California has long addressed the issue.
On January 30 2012 a six-year-old boy was killed at Fort Campbell in Oak Grove Tennessee by a German Shepherd medical service dog. Are you an owner of an assistance animal. Fake service dogs put unfair scrutiny on the people who actually need their animals for medical or emotional purposes and theyre an insult to the dogs that go through months of intense training to be good at their jobs.
California has the toughest laws regarding fake service animals. Misrepresentation includes creating or providing false documents that state an animal is a service animal as well as the use of fake service dog vests collars or harnesses. Penal Code 3657 1994 Cal.