SERVICE ANIMALS

 SERVICE ANIMALS

Service animals are defined as dogs that are individually trained to do work or perform tasks for people with disabilities. Examples of such work or tasks include guiding people who are blind, alerting people who are deaf, pulling a wheelchair, alerting and protecting a person who is having a seizure, reminding a person  with mental illness to take prescribed medications, calming a person  with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) during an anxiety attack, or  performing other duties. Service animals are working animals, not pets.  The work or task a dog has been trained to provide must be directly  related to the person’s disability. Dogs whose sole function is to provide comfort or emotional support do not qualify as service animals under the ADA.

KAT recognizes service animals as defined by the ADA and welcomes them on our buses, any other animals not defined as service must be in an approved carrier and able to sit on passengers lap or under the seat.

For full ADA Service Animal ruling click here.