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Dogs supposedly trained to detect and respond to potentially life-threatening blood sugar levels in people with diabetes were, in reality, often untrained, un-housebroken puppies with hefty pricetags—currently set at $25,000. At least, that's according to a lawsuit filed this week by Attorney General Mark Herring on behalf of the Commonwealth of Virginia.
According to the lawsuit, the non-profit company Service Dogs by Warren Retrievers and its owner Charles Warren Jr. made extraordinary claims about their "diabetic alert dogs." The company and Warren said that the dogs were highly trained and that their performance was "backed by science."
[...] Virginia has a bone to pick about almost all of that. Though the prices were real, the dogs' abilities were not, according to the lawsuit. Customers said they received "ready" dogs that were not at all trained to detect and respond to blood sugar levels.
[...] Moreover, SDWR's dogs lacked even basic pet training, according to the lawsuit. Some dogs were merely puppies that were not housebroken, struggled to walk on a leash, chewed on things, and didn't respond to their names. They also displayed behaviors incompatible for service animal work, including frequent barking, jumping on people, and being terrified of loud noises.
[...] "[T]hese hopeful and vulnerable consumers receive poorly trained, ill-behaved dogs that are not equipped to help them manage a life-threatening disability and are little more than very expensive pets," the lawsuit concludes.
(Score: 2) by istartedi on Friday May 11 2018, @09:55PM (1 child)
Very well then, seize all the dogs and redistribute them. According to our most recent study, the USA has 0.27 dogs per capita. Please stand in line. Your 27% of a dog will be available sometime in the next 10 years.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 11 2018, @10:08PM
Sorry, states are starting to pass laws banning the eating of dogs. Not that anyone is really eating dogs in this country, but just so they can feel superior to other countries and gain election points. Of course those countries feel superior than us because they ban eating cows or some other animal. It's all bullshit or dog shit or whatever. It makes no sense to ban eating of any animals except humans. Eat your own species and you'll eventually get improperly folding proteins which'll make you crazy.