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

[Racheli Gai (jnpalme]

In <20020325175908.6A2192C926 [at] lightship.internal.homeport.org>, on
03/25/2002 
   at 12:59 PM, catya [at] homeport.org (Catya Belfer-Shevett) said:

>> 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 think that Katya is right in the sense that people see blindness as a
form of disability, but they don't see people with allergies or multiple
chemical sensitivities as disabled.  Yet, allowing a dog in a space might
make it inaccessible for someone who is highly sensitized.
I'm not choosing who is "right" or "wrong" on this one, I'm just pointing
out that we are conditioned, culturally, to opt for one over  the other.

R.
_______________________________________________
Cohousing-L mailing list
Cohousing-L [at] cohousing.org  Unsubscribe  and other info:
http://www.communityforum.net/mailman/listinfo/cohousing-l