by Marcie Davis | Apr 24, 2018 | Assistance Dogs, Dogs At Your Service, Guide Dogs, Hearing Dogs, Service Dogs, Americans with Disabilities Act, People & Dogs
There’s a lot of confusion about the Fair Housing Act. I get questions about this all the time. It can be complicated as the laws pertaining to service animals, emotional support animals, and therapy animals in the Housing Act are not the same as those for Public...
by Marcie Davis | Feb 10, 2018 | Assistance Dogs, Dogs At Your Service, Guide Dogs, Hearing Dogs, Service Dogs, Americans with Disabilities Act, People & Dogs, Public Interaction, Working Like Dogs Podcast
Lovey and I had the awesome opportunity to recently serve on a working group led by the New Mexico Coalition Against Domestic Violence and Assistance Dogs of the West. Our task was to create a Model Guideline for Service Animals and Emotional Support Animals in...
by Marcie Davis | Aug 26, 2017 | Assistance Dogs, Dogs At Your Service, Guide Dogs, Hearing Dogs, Service Dogs, Americans with Disabilities Act, People, Public Interaction, Working Like Dogs Podcast, Uncategorized
By Marcie Davis I recently interviewed Marsha Gilford, who serves as Regional Corporate Affairs Manager for the Kroger Co., the nation’s largest traditional grocery store chain. We spoke about what she is doing in her role overseeing community relations at Smith’s...
by Marcie Davis | Jul 8, 2014 | Assistance Dogs, Hearing Dogs, Service Dogs, Americans with Disabilities Act, Dogs in the Workplace, People, Public Interaction
Kathy Taylor and her CCI Hearing Dog Janet travel a lot for Kathy’s job as a System Designer-Engineer with CenturyLink In the May issue of the International Assistance Dog Week newsletter, we asked people to share their stories of their dogs in the workplace....
by Marcie Davis | Dec 15, 2013 | Assistance Dogs, Guide Dogs, Service Dogs, Service Dogs Travel, Americans with Disabilities Act
Do you travel by air with your assistance dog? Would you like to have some say in what the animal relief areas at airports will be like? The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is asking for input from service animal partners, and organizations about the issues...
by Marcie Davis | Mar 11, 2011 | Assistance Dogs, Americans with Disabilities Act
James J. McDonald, Jr., managing partner, Fisher & Phillips, LLP wrote a good summary about the March 15 changes impacting U.S. assistance dogs. His summary is listed below. It’s long but I found it to be very informative. Regulations issued in 1991 following the...