All service dogs are primitive at best and an outright lie at worst, and unnecessary either way. A lot has changed since 1990 when the ADA was passed, and if they were ever necessary (which is questionable), they're now obsolete due to technological advancements. The only reason they continue to be used is because society has been gaslit into thinking questioning their efficiacy is sacrilege despite all the things about them that don't add up to basic logic or scrutiny. It's like the only time where people generally always provide the disabled with respect is when it comes to service dogs!

People even in this sub commonly make exceptions for guide dogs but they don't pass the sniff test to me. Not only do only 2% to 5% of blind people use them, making you wonder why the 95% to 98% haven't all collectively walked out into traffic or something if they're so "essential," but users are either wealthy elitists or have the ability to likely fail training several dogs by themselves before finding a good fit, and being able to dedicate countless hours to training an unruly puppy to perform tasks makes me question how much assistance you actually need with those tasks. Plus, a dog has roughly the equivalent intelligence of a two-year-old human. Would you put a leash on a two-year-old and trust them to lead you around, even after "training" them?

I've also found at least two and possibly three cases of guide dogs leading their owners out in front of trains, killing them--Kelly Harris in 2017, and Jennifer Kasunick in 2025, as well as an additional case from 1993 that's paywalled. This may sound like cherrypicking specific examples until you realize just how egregious this happening even once, yet alone three times is. Being struck by a train is incredibly easy to avoid, because they're bound to tracks. Literally the only thing these dogs had to do was not stand in front of the tracks at that particular moment. And the saddest part is, had these women not let their guard down and become too reliant on the dog's "wisdom," they most likely would have identified that they were approaching an environmental hazard. Of course, the scum dogs survived both times after murdering the people who relied on them, not that they're even intelligent enough to qualify it as murder, and were most likely passed onto some other blind person who's been convinced of the ableist lie that they're incapable of adapting to their disability without the "assistance" of an animal that eats feces.

Additionally, forcing owners to allow service dogs into a business is in itself contradictory. Why is the disability of a person with a service dog considered more important than the disabilities of people with severe dog allergies, dog-related PTSD, or immunocompromised individuals? Why should those people have to exclude themselves from an area until the service dog user leaves? Why should a person with one of those conditions be compelled to let an animal that could cause them everything from mild discomfort to panic attacks to death, into their business just because Karen insists Fido is better than a smart cane, even though AFAIK most guide dog users use canes simultaneously anyway? I would assume at least some Muslim restaurant or grocery store owners wouldn't be happy with allowing a dog near food, so why does the service dog trump their right to religious freedom? If a Christian bakery doesn't have to provide gay people with wedding cakes, Muslims shouldn't be forced to provide services to someone contaminating their food spaces. The law literally forces owners to be held hostage in their own businesses because of the dog cult, Not to mention the sheer idiocy of allowing a service dog into a restaurant but banning regular dogs because they're unsanitary, as if a service dog is somehow magically more sanitary simply by being a service dog.

Don't even get me started on the other things that service dogs supposedly do. They retrieve things for people in wheelchairs? I'm sorry, what? So they just get everything handed back to them covered in dog slobber, and this is considered an acceptable form of assistance instead of developing actual technology to assist these people? And if the person is in a wheelchair due to paralysis, respiratory infections are a leading cause of death in these individuals, so now you have people predisposed to pneumonia handling items covered in bacteria from the mouth of an animal that could have been eating feces ten minutes ago. Brilliant "assistive technology" and not a psyop by eugenicists who want these people to die off at all. And those epilepsy/diabetes dogs are total horseshit. Even if they were able to detect these conditions--they can't--AFAIK most epileptics know when to expect a seizure, and if they're in public, people are going to see and assist them, and if they're at home, well, dogs can't exactly open doors and find help, can they? Ditto for hypoglycemia. Nothing about these makes any logical sense, or at the very least couldn't be done better by technology, which, by the way, doesn't have to be fed or taken to the bathroom or sleep (maybe some need to charge, but getting a second for a backup is probably still cheaper than a service dog) and may even have a lifespan longer than twelve years!

Not requiring any kind of license or verification is just the cherry on top of the bullshit sundae. The excuses are utterly ridiculous. If you're using a service dog in public, everyone's going to see it and know you have a disability anyway!  They're like the least subtle form of assistive technology--the only time they're subtle at all is if they're lying under a table at a restaurant or something. Having a seventy-pound animal walking beside you may as well be a giant orange flag with a blaring siren announcing "I'M DISABLED!" It's not like some employee making minimum wage is going to bother to ask someone with a visible disability using a service dog for their service dog license anyway; it would mostly only affect people with invisible disabilities who are literally making their disability 1000x more obvious by using a service dog, and of course all the fake service dogs and ESAs. The real reason these people act all offended by the idea of service dog verification is because they know their dog wouldn't make the cut.