Scam Prevention
Solution to Fake Service Dog Trainers
1. Federal regulations mandating certification for service dogs, no matter who trained them -- owner or organization.
2. Qualified Independent Review (Certification) of a given Service Dog's training. This simple elegant solution prevents unqualified trainers from selling poorly trained dogs as Certified Service Dogs.
3. Scammers have capitalized on a serious lack of professional Service Dog Trainers. This dearth of qualified SD trainers exists because ADI currently only certifies organizations that are not-for-profit. Allow for-profit organizations to train Service Dogs so professional dog trainers can provide competition to scammers and poor trainers that are protected by the requirement that Service Dog Training organizations must be non-profit. Virtually overnight these scammers will be starved out of the business because legitimate dog trainers will finally be able to train Service Dogs.
Solution to Fake Service Dogs
1. Stricter laws for punishing fraudsters.
2. Federal regulations mandating certification by qualified certification bodies for all service dogs no matter who trained them. This ensures training to standards is maintained.
3. Government issued ID once a dog passes certification. Businesses can simply ask for ID just as they would ask a person for ID before serving alcohol. This makes it easy to identify and report fraudsters.
ISCTA is a strong and vocal proponent of national service dog standards, including formalized training, certification by approved certifying bodies, and government issued IDs, like driver's licenses. This will --overnight-- eliminate both scam trainers AND pets being masqueraded as Service Dogs. In addition, it will quickly and effectively disintegrate the self-appointed and under-qualified Service Dog Police that have taken it upon themselves to determine who is a "real" service dog or trainer and who isn't.
National Standards are NEEDED NOW!
1. Federal regulations mandating certification for service dogs, no matter who trained them -- owner or organization.
2. Qualified Independent Review (Certification) of a given Service Dog's training. This simple elegant solution prevents unqualified trainers from selling poorly trained dogs as Certified Service Dogs.
3. Scammers have capitalized on a serious lack of professional Service Dog Trainers. This dearth of qualified SD trainers exists because ADI currently only certifies organizations that are not-for-profit. Allow for-profit organizations to train Service Dogs so professional dog trainers can provide competition to scammers and poor trainers that are protected by the requirement that Service Dog Training organizations must be non-profit. Virtually overnight these scammers will be starved out of the business because legitimate dog trainers will finally be able to train Service Dogs.
Solution to Fake Service Dogs
1. Stricter laws for punishing fraudsters.
2. Federal regulations mandating certification by qualified certification bodies for all service dogs no matter who trained them. This ensures training to standards is maintained.
3. Government issued ID once a dog passes certification. Businesses can simply ask for ID just as they would ask a person for ID before serving alcohol. This makes it easy to identify and report fraudsters.
ISCTA is a strong and vocal proponent of national service dog standards, including formalized training, certification by approved certifying bodies, and government issued IDs, like driver's licenses. This will --overnight-- eliminate both scam trainers AND pets being masqueraded as Service Dogs. In addition, it will quickly and effectively disintegrate the self-appointed and under-qualified Service Dog Police that have taken it upon themselves to determine who is a "real" service dog or trainer and who isn't.
National Standards are NEEDED NOW!
