Okay I found this and now have to comment. There are a few misconceptions her also, the thing we try to avoid.as a service dog owner, I sometimes feel it is a responsibility to educate.
1) the person who stated her DD dog from Guiding eyes from the blind and has no ID is mistaken. All dogs from Guiding Eyes for the blind has an ID card, at least all 4 of mine have and it has been more than 20 years. But we were taught the card is for airplane use only, you can not ask to produce it anywhere else by law.
2) reasons we were giving, seeing eye dogs the first real service animals paved the way for all other service animals. We fought for the right to have public access. When we did we realized that we were set apart from other service animals. Guide dogs have been around for 60+ years, service animals since ADA, 20+ years. When ADA ask, we as a special group had many advantages and did not want to step on toes. All but one seeing eye schools charge nothing for a handler to have a dog, the one school that charges charge only $200. This includes free training, room and board for 28 days of trading, air fare to training, follow up training, harness, dog supplies, vet care, everything is free, except dog food. How sitting at a table writing a law were we going to say no you must mandate things for other service dogs, some people pay more than $20000 for there dog that lives and works for 8 or 9 years. Why should people with other disabilities not be able to raise, train and use whatever dog they need, my deaf nephew has always been able to get his dog from a pound and train the dog to tell him phone is ringing, ambulance siren is coming, door bell is ringin, two huge differences, his dog hardly even goes into the public like my guide dog does so yes needs some obedience but not like mine, his dog also is not saving his life in the same way my guide dog is saving mine.
20+ years later, yes, we now see the mistake, but how do you fix it. Because we have fake service dogs do we make it so that every dog has to go thru blank blank and blank training, what if the disabled is on a fixed income and has time to train there own dog, but not the money to hire a trainer. Then there is also the problem of putting more pressure on singling out the disabled, can we be like the nazi and make the disabled carry a picture of them and there dog just to show they are disabled, I don't think so.
3) I wrote this here under another discussion not long ago, people have to understand, laws, they are not one fold, ADA does not hold the full laws on service animals, it holds how businesses can not discriminate. Also the law states nothing about the dog being trained in obedience, all it states is the dog must be trained in a task or work for the disabled, and that if the dog is unruly you can ask it to be moved from the business. It gives us access.
Local laws give us more indepth laws on behaviors. For the public to get involved and help get rid of fake service animals, they need to know what local laws state. There are laws about behavior, laws about service animals, and laws about dogs. Like all dogs in public (parks, streets and fields) need to be on leash, service dog or not dogs should be on leash (there is exceptions for people with no arms and service dogs on leash. But the law states the leash has to be 6 or 8 ft depending on your local law.
Why is this important. Well ever see a service dog on a retractable leash of 20 ft, no school or training would ever allow it, so you are looking at a fake service dog. Number one clue it is a fake service dog.
Other things public need to look for to spot and train those around them. Service dogs should not be distracted, so why are there service dogs without being spayed or nuetered, yes you may be able to control the dog but you can not control the other dogs if yours is not spayed or neutered, that would be a distraction.
We were taught in school all service dogs need to have all four paws on the floor, even those pesky little wimp dogs. Why they can not do there job up on your lap. I know of no school who trains small dogs, not alert dogs they use medium dogs. Not guide dogs they use medium to large dog. Not mobility dogs, they use middium to large dogs. Not seizure dogs, they are at least medium size. So if no school uses small dogs, why would people. Most would not especially if you are training them. Small chows, yorkies and such would be hard to walk around on all fours, so why put so much money into a dog that would be hard to leave down on ground to walk when you are out in a store. Also like alert dogs need to move around to smell your sugar highs and lows. A alert dog for deaf would need to be able to see and hear so would need to be high enough off ground.
All in all, I think the public must come together start reporting to businesses that unruly dogs need to go, the public needs to start questioning and then the fake service dogs will be less and less. Do we need laws, I guess but I don't think them helping. It is more fear of knowing they have access and confronting people.
Even today, I should have confronted someone. I was leaving a business and I had my guide dog. As I was walking to the door another lady scolded her dog to stop barking, which it did not. I should have stopped got the manager and asked them to have the dog removed, but I try to protect my dog, who can ignore it, but my fear is when will that other dog jump down and bite, do I want to wait for a manager, or just keep walking and get my dog safely way. I can't see the other dog and know when he will make a move. If I had someone who would stick up with me, I would go just outside and have the other person go get a manager and make the complaint. Yet I never can alone, that is where the public can come in. I know this business would have made the other dog leave, I just can't without sight leave my dog in a situation where he could be bite because I need my dog every day. So please public, learn the rules, learn how to spot fake service dogs and then when those dogs go off on real service animals, speak up, tell us you will go get management for us. Otherwise these fake service animals will continue because we live in an entitled world everyone feels they are entitled to do what they want without knowing or caring how that might hurt others.