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Rehobeth Beach, Delaware was dog-friendly and full of kind and gentle
people who fell in love with Jack. We walked day and night on the
boardwalk, which for Jack was a safe enough distance from the ocean. Jack
developed a fan club whose members would shout a greeting when they saw us
at different places in town. As usual, Jack was fond of all the attention
and curious about the people we met. He retrieved and gave objects to so
many strangers.
Jack
was the first service dog many people had seen - particularly restaurant,
hotel and shop proprietors. We were allowed admittance everywhere,
sometimes after first being refused. We see our public travels as an
opportunity to educate people about the law and about how service dogs (of
all statures) help people with disabilities. Because Jack is so small and
I am not obviously disabled, we strive to be a model service-dog and
handler team so that everyone who sees us learns that service dogs act
with the utmost composure and professionalism when they work. |