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| Service animals in the theater-ever seen them? | |
| Posted by: bobby2 09:29 pm EDT 05/16/18 | |
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| Not talking about guide dogs but the comfort animal types. I was just reading how airlines are cutting back on what they allow. Got me thinking about last year when I saw Natasha and Pierre there was a young woman sitting in the stage seats with a dog she was clutching in her lap. For the longest time I thought it was part of the show since the actors in that show would mingle around the audience pre-show. But no. It was apparently just a dog she needed for anxiety or whatever. |
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| re: Service animals in the theater-ever seen them? | |
| Posted by: selmerboy 01:46 pm EDT 05/17/18 | |
| In reply to: Service animals in the theater-ever seen them? - bobby2 09:29 pm EDT 05/16/18 | |
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| When I saw Once On This Island earlier this year there was a guide dog on the front row laying in the sand. The cast all came up and said hi during the pre-show. It was extremely well-behaved with all the commotion going on around it. | |
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| re: Service animals in the theater-ever seen them? | |
| Posted by: vegas 11:54 pm EDT 05/16/18 | |
| In reply to: Service animals in the theater-ever seen them? - bobby2 09:29 pm EDT 05/16/18 | |
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| You can't necessarily tell if it's an assistance dog or a comfort animal. Lots of assistance dogs aren't "guide dogs". They might do medical alerts, for example. So they can be very small dogs. I've seen both a small dog and a big dog at the theater. Both were quiet and well-behaved. Better behaved than many human theater-goers. |
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| re: Service animals in the theater-ever seen them? | |
| Posted by: garyd 11:51 pm EDT 05/16/18 | |
| In reply to: Service animals in the theater-ever seen them? - bobby2 09:29 pm EDT 05/16/18 | |
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| I see this all the time on air flights. Not service dogs, as I understand the term, just people wanting to travel with their dogs. it is part of this whole dog thing currently going on. | |
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| re: Service animals in the theater-ever seen them? | |
| Posted by: JohnPopa 09:32 am EDT 05/17/18 | |
| In reply to: re: Service animals in the theater-ever seen them? - garyd 11:51 pm EDT 05/16/18 | |
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| Not so much a dog thing, it's much more of a social anxiety thing. They're often not officially service animals (which are trained for specific duties) but they serve a similar function to help people who have struggles handle being amongst crowds. | |
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| re: Service animals in the theater-ever seen them? | |
| Posted by: bwaywatcher 10:44 pm EDT 05/16/18 | |
| In reply to: Service animals in the theater-ever seen them? - bobby2 09:29 pm EDT 05/16/18 | |
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| Saw a woman and a non-guide dog at The Trip to Bountiful five or so years ago. I think I may have posted about it. | |
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| re: Service animals in the theater-ever seen them? | |
| Posted by: schauspieler 11:02 pm EDT 05/16/18 | |
| In reply to: re: Service animals in the theater-ever seen them? - bwaywatcher 10:44 pm EDT 05/16/18 | |
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| Saw one at Carnegie Hall recently and after initially freaking out was amazed at how well behaved it was. | |
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