williams1662 said on 29/06/2012 at 10:41 am
hi, my name is Ian and my wife is visually impaired and has a guide dog. we often try and go away and stay in different parts of this lovely country of ours, well that's what i thought. how many times have we been refused to stay at different places because of the guide dog i have lost count and my wife finds this very upsetting. STAND UP FOR YOUR RIGHTS . well i think its about time we formed a name and shame board, this could have 2 affects
1. educate people/businesses in the law regarding assistance dogs.
2. shame people/businesses whom will not comply with the law on assistance dogs.
YES i feel strongly about this as there are a lot of people/businesses that don`t know the law and assistance dogs and need to be educated, making this very upsetting to individuals when being refused, why should you put up with this ? making you a second hand citizen.
the first a foremost thing to do is try and educate these people in one of two ways,
1. send them guidance notes on assistance dogs
2. approach the local chamber of commence for help in education
these are my ideas, do you have any? comments?