[pct-l] thru-hiking with dogs.

[jeffmoorehead1 at cox.net (Jeff Moorehead)]

Amen to that. Give the ranger a break if he/she doesn't know that your dog 
is a service dog. There are reasons why dogs aren't allowed in some 
areas--i.e. wilderness status. You sound somewhat spiteful instead of 
willing to educate the rangers in a more effective way besides getting them 
fired.

>You say that as if getting rangers fired is something of which you
>should be proud. If you are, in fact, legally in the right, why not
>carry some kind of document as proof? That is, unless, you see getting
>people fired as a more positive solution to the problem

> Under the Americans with disability act you don't have to prove any
> thing there is no certification of service dogs. I all ready filed suit
> against the park service and before it even got to the courts the park
> service asked what can be don to drop it because there legal councel
> said i was in the right I said educate rangers that there is no
> registration of a service dog. a service dog you get from one of those
> schools and pay big bucks for is no more a service dog then my dog I
> trained on my own.  I still have os how rangers tehre in the wrong. they
>
> usually give me a ticket I call the head of the park service legal
> council ho is in Washington dc and is disabled him self. and say guess
> what I got a ticket for her and usually the ranger is fired.  If it is
> the second tiem for them sighting me I have goten 3 rangers fiored in
> yellowsotne.
>
> Bob Bankhead wrote:
>
>> A WORD TO THE WISE:
>> You can say whatever you want to the ranger, but it will be up to you
>> to PROVE she is a service dog. You won't get an automatic "Pass" just
>> because you make the claim. Ditto permits and bear cannisters. The
>> rangers want to (and have a legal right to) see proof of same. Argue
>> at your own (significant) risk.
>>
>> Wandering Bob
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dave" <akamp@qwest.net>
>> To: "wade Weshonko" <ihamburger666@yahoo.com>
>> Cc: <pct-l@mailman.backcountry.net>
>> Sent: Monday, April 18, 2005 3:46 PM
>> Subject: Re: [pct-l] thru-hiking with dogs.
>>
>>
>>> That is one nice thing I cant through hike with out having to leave
>>> here any were she can hike the whole way and if any one complains say
>
>>> hey she is a service dog you have to allow her .
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
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