Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Seeing-eye dogs and common house pet policies

[Catya Belfer-Shevett (catya]

> If I can add to the question. Has any community had to face a situation
> where you had a service dog and a dog-allergic member?

We're not up and running, but my feeling is that unless you had a 
serious unmedicable allergy, the service dog would take precedence.

I can't -imagine- not letting a service animal go wherever its person 
was allowed to go.

On the other hand, if there was a special allergen-minimizing shampoo 
or something, i think it would be totally within reason for the 
allergic member to ask that it be used on a resident service dog, or 
for the allergic member to ask for a special cleaning after the common 
house was visited by a service dog, that sort of thing.

My two cents,

        - catya
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