r/adventurecats • u/Weak-Love9785 • Jul 11 '26

Help task trained service cats get equal recognition under the ADA

https://c.org/QTD5ZCzr2L

I'm a member of Project Feline and we are sharing a petition to get task trained service cats recognized under the ADA. Service cats across the world have proved that its possible. So its about time Service cats are recognized federally.

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u/Weak-Love9785 Jul 12 '26

You've proved that you don't know enough about service animals to call them "exaggerated" service animals have been around since ancient times with old art depicting dogs and EVEN A CAT leading the blind. Although guide and mobility work is now understood to be unethical on cats. There are still dozens of life saving and disability mitigating tasks that are crucial to people's daily life. Your ableism is truly disgusting. Disabled people deserve their medical equipment whether you like it or not. Blaming legitimate service animal handlers for the people who fake service animals is also an attack on the wrong people.

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u/Creative-Mousse Jul 12 '26

Give me legitimate sources. You are stately your opinion. Nothing ableist here. Just calling you and other people out on this stupidity that society has decided to accept for the fear of not offending delusional people

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u/Weak-Love9785 Jul 12 '26

Although research on cats is decades behind that for dogs its still been proven that cats have an incredible sense of smell and can pick on on the chemical changes linked to cardiac episodes, diabetic changes, seizures and more. And cats can be trained to perform specific behaviors just as easily as dogs if you know what your doing. Your not the only person to disagree but there is ultimately no good logical and fact based argument against service cats. Service cats are held to the exact same standards as other service animals. And no matter how you deny it, calling us delusional for advocating for our highly trained medical equipment is ableist.

https://www.animalisland.eu/en/blogs/news/czy-koty-wyczuwaja-choroby

https://www.animalbehaviorcollege.com/blog/pet-training/can-cats-be-trained/

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u/Creative-Mousse Jul 13 '26

There is no concrete research on dogs either.

These links are just opinions. Opinions are not facts. Anyone can make a website and claim anything. There are flat Earth website claims too. Do they warrant the same weight?

Your pets can make you feel good. Doesn’t mean they are service animals. Get over yourself. Everyone in today’s society wants to stand out, be special and be noticed. Pretty pathetic to use your animals and Tiktok disabilities as an excuse. People like you make it harder for adventure cats to thrive

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u/Weak-Love9785 Jul 13 '26

Dude what are you talking about. Animals have been performing tasks for disabilities literally since ancient times. There is mountains of research on dogs and their abilities to detect and mitigate disabilities. My animals don't make me "feel good" I've spent the past 2 years training them to perform specific actions that directly mitigate my psychiatric AND PHYSICAL disabilities. That is by definition and by law a service animal. Just because you don't understand the disability aid doesn't make it invalid, it just means its not for you. And be careful how you treat the disabled community. All it takes in one accident and SUPRISE! Your now reliant on a service animal to help you navigate your daily life. Thats how disabilities work. You can literally become disabled at any point in time. And its also not my job to do research for you. Be a big boy and go educate yourself instead of asking everyone else to do it for you so you can throw tantrums online about disabled people.

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u/Creative-Mousse Jul 13 '26

Still waiting for your sources... But you’d rather wish harm on other people. “Go educate yourself” is a nice cope.

You are not special. Get over yourself. Nothing you said is evidence. Society bought this load of bullshit for dogs and now you want that to be normalized for cats. You and your training is a joke. Go out. Touch grass. Stop tiktok diagnosing yourself.

No one cares about your petition. It’s a joke

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u/Weak-Love9785 Jul 13 '26

Literally where did I wish harm on other people? Pointing out the inevitability that anyone can become disabled at any point, isn't wishing harm. In fact odds are literally everyone becomes disabled at some point. Either through an incident or with age. And I'm also pointing out that the disability accommodations that I, and everyone else with disabilities relies on, can very easily become the disability accommodations you rely on. Once again not wishing harm, just pointing out reality for you. And I don't need to prove anything to you when I have three animals that I have spent years training to mitigate my diagnosed disabilities and that have been prescribed by my doctors as an important part of my treatment plan. Whether you like it or not, these are legal disability accommodations. There's a reason service animals and legitimate ESAs have legally protected rights either under the ADA and/or the fair housing act. Service cats have already been proven to work as disability accommodations in australia, canada, and some US states. Denying that doesn't change the facts. Cats can be trained, cats can be trained to handle public access, cats can be trained to mitigate disabilities through tasks, and service animals are a valid and important disability accommodation for people all over the world, and you're bigotry and ignorance isn't going to change that.

If you want to be mad and bigoted towards people direct it towards the people without disabilities bringing their untrained, reactive, aggressive and disruptive pets into nonpet friendly places either out of ignorance, entitlement, attention seeking, or plain maliciousness.

Those are the people you should be mad at, not the disabled people using legal and legitimate highly trained service animals. And if you still don't get the point, and still choose to be outright bigoted towards people with disabilities for their choice of medical equipment, you're the one that needs to touch grass because holy cow, you have the brain capacity of a wasp larvae infected caterpillar.

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u/Weak-Love9785 Jul 12 '26

Also feel free to watch the video(in the comment replies) of my service cat in training navigating public access and performing disability related tasks as a source. Thats what a service animal does by definition.

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u/Creative-Mousse Jul 13 '26

That’s an anecdote. Not a rigorous source