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A few months ago i was at a supermarket, and in the line at the register there was a woman with her service dog in front of me. The cashier started to throw a fit about the dog, spouting some stuff about hygiene. The woman informed her that service dogs are explicitly allowed; the cashier just shook her head in disbelieve. I just couldn't keep my mouth shut and told her (friendly) that a trained service dog is more hygienic and better behaved than half of her costumers.
Sadly, noone clapped, but i hope the cashier learnt something.
In America we have a real problem with people claiming emotional support animals as service animals despite those being different things. In some areas it's to the point that people assume you're the former and just want to bring your dog everywhere
Ok that's simply selfish of those people. Here in central Europe I haven't seen such behavior yet, but as they say, if the world ends, come to austria, it happens 20 years later here.
I’ll clap for you right now!
Oh thank you so much :-) I felt weird exposing myself that way, but since i know that service dogs are very well behaved i just had to say something - this poor woman getting attacked over her dog was simply unfair.