Love your Website and glad to know you are safe! We (Dolce, Elvis, Finnegan and Mommy, aka Drea) have been thinking about you a lot after hearing about the fires.

What a great idea! and quite a nice job on the website! congradulations–

i have an italian greyhound that looks just like you but shes grey and white. she is going to be 8 in march and she is crazy! lol she loves to zoomie!! i think thats all she does and shes called down alot since she was a puppy. o wow i want another one so bad. mine is pure breed and her name is maddie.

Luigi, What a lovely job you do! Good luck on all your adventures. My puppy is going to start training as a guide dog soon and it is so very comforting to hear about your working day. Thank you for your blog. Carey

Hi, Luigi. I’ve read all that about you and I am impressed of what an important a great work you do! You do so much for your Mum.
I guess it is probably hard work – to train so and to be trained so.
Moreover you are just a cute dog and you’re absolutely charming!
Also, cool site! I like it very much)

I have a Boxer who is my seizure alert dog. He is now retired and passing his knowledge at the age of 11 1/2 to our new 2 year old Rottweiler. I wanted to share this with you because depending on what Luigi is assisting you with this law may effect you in the very near future. Please feel free to contact me and or pass this information around to all you know with service animals. I have been published in the local newspaper and am trying hard to have this stopped!

Best Regards,
Rainette
760-780-3772

As you may know the Department of Justice as July 29th amended the ADA law in regards to service animals. As an independent volunteer advocate for persons with service animals in California this is of concern for the patients I work with. What does your organization plan on doing in relation to this new law? I have enclosed a link with the new DOJ regulations and also enclosed the highlights within a paragraph in regards to what a service animal will now mean and highlighted in red the details as to the emotional, psychiatric and companionship definition.

Please contact me as I have several clients who need their animals to get through each day for psychological and physical reasons. I am hopeful that we can work collectively as a community for those with special needs.

Regards,
Rainette Murphy Lopez
760-780-3772 – Home
661-670-7373 – Cell

http://www.ada.gov/regs2010/ADAregs2010.htm

Service animal means any dog that is individually trained to do work or perform tasks for the benefit of an individual with a disability, including a physical, sensory, psychiatric, intellectual, or other mental disability. Other species of animals, whether wild or domestic, trained or untrained, are not service animals for the purposes of this definition. The work or tasks performed by a service animal must be directly related to the handler’s disability. Examples of work or tasks include, but are not limited to, assisting individuals who are blind or have low vision with navigation and other tasks, alerting individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing to the presence of people or sounds, providing non-violent protection or rescue work, pulling a wheelchair, assisting an individual during a seizure, alerting individuals to the presence of allergens, retrieving items such as medicine or the telephone, providing physical support and assistance with balance and stability to individuals with mobility disabilities, and helping persons with psychiatric and neurological disabilities by preventing or interrupting impulsive or destructive behaviors. The crime deterrent effects of an animal’s presence and the provision of emotional support, well-being, comfort, or companionship do not constitute work or tasks for the purposes of this definition.