What is to stop anybody just putting a jacket on a dog, an example being:

Awhile back I was in a supermarket and saw a person in an electric wheelchair with a dog with a coat/jacket on it. I wondered if it is was an Assistance Dog or a Hearing Dog so I went over for a closer look………amazingly it was a pet dog with a coat on that was advertising a small animal rescue organisation that ironically was nothing to do with dogs.

Wonder if the supermarket staff had seen the disabled person come in with the dog in its ‘jacket’ and assumed it was an assistance dog when in fact it was nothing of the sort?

Interesting about the puppies in training and non ADUK trained dogs not being allowed in to taxi’s under the law, will taxi drivers know the difference (the ones who do allow bona fide assistance dogs in their taxis?)