Disabled guest – mamasmunchkin

I’ve written at least one post about service animals so, I feel like today’s post is equally important. As I was looking around the Internet at different articles, I noticed that there seem to be those using “impostor service animals”. These animals aren’t really trained to help disabled people and the people who are using them just want to go out with their pet and aren’t disabled.

While the article debates there’s no way to really regulate this problem, something clearly needs to be done. The pets that aren’t service animals create a nuisance and are a safety risk for the general public. Similar to my post a few weeks ago about Disney park guests that were paying disabled people to be their “tour guide” to get to the front of lines, here’s unfortunately another example of people who don’t need certain services abusing the system. As a result, the only people who really suffer are those for which the laws were intended.

As we all know, it’s very easy to buy almost anything on the Internet and have it shipped directly to your home. Accessories for your pet with some sort of believable service animal insignia is no exception. Along with guidelines on carrying an identification card for your “assistant” as mentioned in the article below, maybe there can also be approved websites where you can buy the necessary extras for when you’re out in public.

I really hope this issue can be remedied because service animals are a very important part of the lives of the disabled people who need them.

What other ways could help identify the “Real McCoy’s”?

For more information on this article visit the link below:

http://timesfreepress.com/news/2013/oct/11/impostor-service-animals-posing-growing-problem/

Thanks for reading..

Living in Orlando, and of course as a child, I’ve been to Epcot and Disney World. When I moved here permanently to go to school, I even visited Universal Studios a couple of times. When I was a child, these theme parks would let those with a disability get to the front of the line to make the park experience an equal one.

Over the years, there have been abuses of that privilege by people who rent a wheelchair when they really don’t need it or hire a disabled person to get to the front of the line. It’s no surprise that now, going to the theme parks isn’t that easy and at least for me, I don’t go that often anymore.

This past week, Disney decided to revise their disabled guest policy. Now, people are supposed to receive a photo I.D. and a virtual wait time to get on the rides. It wasn’t clear to me in the news report or the story from the link below how they will be handling those people who are accompanying the disabled guest but, maybe it will have to be a case of trial and error.

I applaud The Disney Company for trying to remedy a problem that’s really nothing new. Hopefully, once they get the kinks worked out, it will lead to a more enjoyable theme park experience for everyone.

Do you think the revision of this policy will get more disabled people to visit the parks?

Thanks for reading..

To get more information on this story, you can go to the link below:

http://www.wftv.com/news/news/local/disney-introduces-pass-prevents-non-disabled-peopl/nZ5f9/

Tag: Disabled guest

Impostor Service Animals?

Disney’s Disabled Guest Policy