A pet does not care what your race, gender, sex, or
nationality is. A pet does not judge you.
A pet cares about you as a person and will give you unconditional love
in return for a warm loving home, food and water. This is the reason why pets are such good
companions when it comes to helping to treat individuals with Post- Traumatic
Stress Disorder. Post-Traumatic Stress
Disorder is similar to having panic or anxiety attacks, a form of depression
and stresses something a pet can pick up on better than even a human
counterpart such as a spouse. Pets are
critical to helping individuals with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder to manage their
attacks whether at home or when they go out in public. Luckily, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Service Dogs qualify until the American with Disabilities Act stating “Service animals are defined as dogs that are individually trained to do
work or perform tasks for people with disabilities. Examples of such work or tasks include
guiding people who are blind, alerting people who are deaf, pulling a
wheelchair, alerting and protecting a person who is having a seizure, reminding
a person with mental illness to take prescribed medications, calming a person
with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) during an anxiety attack, or
performing other duties. Service animals are working animals, not pets. The
work or task a dog has been trained to provide must be directly related to the
person’s disability” (2011). However, pets whose sole function is to provide comfort or emotional support do
not qualify as service animals under the ADA therefore do not qualify under the
guidelines or protection of the ADA Law.
Those pets are not allowed to enter restaurants, stores, or other
facilities unless they are dog-friendly establishments. 
Every day twenty-two
veterans take their lives due to their suffering of Post-Traumatic Stress
Disorder. First Responders such as
police, emergency medical technicians, nurses, doctors, ambulance drivers, and
fire fighters are also high risk for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder because of
their employment. These individuals
choose to protect our lives over their own, they leave their families every day
knowing and their families knowing that they are going to do their best to save
a life and save a family from the one horrible door knock but at the same time
it may cost them. They pray, their
families pray and we should all pray that our armed service members and our
first 
Just as these
individuals is needing rescuing with a service or companion dog they are able
to rescue dogs from shelters and rescues giving pets a second chance, when
those dogs may not have had a chance.
Shelters and rescues need to work with local veteran committees, first responders,
and their families to see how each other can help each other. It is a win-win for all.
When someone abuses the
use of a service dog with a fake service dog with a kit they purchased of the
internet in an establishment it causes that establishment to question all
service dog teams entering their establishment which is an undue stress onto
those already stressed. Let’s think
about it, would you want that added stress added onto your loved one? Added onto you? NO, I highly doubt it. These individuals and their families have sacrificed
enough. Stricter laws and higher penalties
are needed to be added in order to eliminate fake service dogs, making it
easier for the real service dogs.
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