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According to the ADA, a service dog is defined as "any guide dog, signal dog, or other animal individually trained to provide assistance to an individual with a disability." Another quote from the ADA, "Service animals are animals that are individually trained to perform tasks for people with disabilities such as guiding people who are blind, alerting people who are deaf, pulling wheelchairs, alerting and protecting a person who is having a seizure, or performing other special tasks." What is really key about these definitions is that they state that service dogs are dogs that are specifically trained to perform tasks that mitigate the disability of an individual. In order for a dog to be a service dog, it must accompany a handler who is disabled.Service dogs are not required to be registered or certified and do not have to provide any proof of certification. In fact, there is no service dog certification in the United States that has any type of legal value.It is a federal crime to misrepresent a dog as a service dog when it isn't.Perhaps when this was done, Cesar wanted to get Junior certified as a therapy dog? That would probably be more appropriate. There are definitely certifications for this, some of the best known are through TDI (Therapy Dogs International) or the Delta Society. Therapy dogs provide therapeutic benefit to people in hospitals, nursing homes, rehabilitation centers, or schools. They volunteer at this places with permission from the owner and are otherwise well trained pet dogs.I think it would be very important for Cesar and the Foundation to correct this misunderstanding because it has the potential to cause a lot of confusion and lead people who are not disabled to getting their dogs certified by a fake organization. Yes, the United States Service Dog Registry is fake because the certification it offers still holds no legal value. Having a dog certified through this registry does not make it a service dog by any means.
Wow that's wonderful. I did not even know Cesar were disabled. He seems so healthy on the TV show. But he must have a disability that substantially limits a major life activity such as seeing, hearing, speaking, walking, breathing, or performing manual tasks because a service dog must be individually trained to perform tasks to mitigate the handlers disability. I would really like to see a full article about Cesar's disability and what tasks Junior is trained to do that mitigate it. I am worried that people who do not know the law might see this article and get confused.
