I can't imagine any business giving this woman and her service horse any trouble - Flirty 'heels' better than 90% of dogs out there, and she's not sniffing merchandise, interacting with the public, or eating food off the floor! I would be honored to meet up with this service animal team in some random store with my own service dog - at least I wouldn't have to worry about Flirty lunging or barking at my service dog like I do with so many of the dogs we come across out in public!

About time these little hooved heroes got some recognition!

Slight correction - service animals CAN go to pools and water parks, just not in the actual water.

The stares I already get with my dog partner, I couldn't imagine it with a horse.

It’s a shame we have such evil people who would have to audacity to tell a person to take their own life. That’s a sick evil person. It’s just a miniature horse for goodness sake, leave the woman and her service animal alone. She’s doing what she needs to do for her. I’m looking into what type of service dog I will need down the line. I’ve never seen these before, but I think it’s super cool. My children knew about them, and told me, so now I’m researching.

It's lovely to see the horse being shown to have the ability to know when she is stressed. If people have never had PTSD then they have no comprehension on such a disabling problem. Many men who came home from the Vietnam War slept with rifles next to them would have been diagnosed as having PTSD. Instead of being told to, sadly, "just get over it " . With medical recognition of PTSD att, suicide numbers would have been lower. It wasn't the case, though. It's wonderful this medical problem is now accepted as real and this little horse is helping this lady. An old saying is true" Don't judge someone until you have walked a mile in their shoes".

We get very similar responses here in Central North Carolina. My service animal and me often have to put up with a barrage of people always coming up to ask to pet my horse or take pictures with it. It's no big deal, I just kindly let them know that she's working and move on about my business. Good luck pursuing Federal action with your discrimination case. I had a case several years ago and the Department of Justice and the department of the Interior told me that they had way too many claims to pursue mine at the current time.

very well informed on the difference between SAs and ESAs

I don’t understand why people would be upset at an obviously well trained animal like Flirty. I can understand someone simply not knowing mini horses are covered under the ADA but not being mean.

Thank you so helpful 💜

If I managed any kind of food store I'd want to see proof that that horse was a service animal.

Yup those of us with service animals hate it !

I don’t understand why someone would continue not to let a very obviously well trained horse in once they see the verbiage of the law. It’s a very clearcut law.

It's Flirty the mini!

Exactly, I have CPTSD, Hypoklemia, Hypoglycemia and Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome and that's not the one people got from covid. And I have bad days, unfortunately many businesses around me particularly retail like to allow fake posers in to make profit off of them at the expense of actual handlers like myself and my service animal. We then as a result of that get people including the police thinking it's okay to come up to us whether or not we are walking around getting things or in the checkout to just try to talk to my service dog tell my service dog how good he is behaving ask me the breed anything and everything that could be considered distracting a service dog from their job they are literally doing and part of it is again people come in there with but you are not service the animals and they get money off of it and then these people come in there for attention-seeking and validation and they let people touch their dog and pet their dog and act like you know everything's fine to violate Federal Ada law because then the next time around when they actually see somebody with a legit service animal they think they can come up there with their kid or themselves and start doing the same crap to them and when you call it out on them they get all upset they throw a tantrum they're like but but why can't I because the person you probably saw before was a fake poser that's why, if you knew Federal Ada law what you're doing is considered malicious intent to cause harm to the Handler by your behavior and your actions call me yes is he coming up and bothering us asking his name trying to talk to my service animal, you're not supposed to be trying to get his attention telling him what a good job he is and you know all this stuff to try to distract him you should know better. Unfortunately after you make claims unless you have the actual proof in the pudding they don't do anything so like other handlers I am actually putting a little mini camera on my service animal so if it does happen I have the recording I have the proof they can't hide behind a hearsay and they can't sleep in under the rug and they're going to take it instant action on it cuz they actually have the video of it, cuz a lot of businesses will try to erase the recording of what happened in the incident and and like about what really happened because they don't want to get held accountable. I've even been told I had no rights and I should be ashamed of myself for having to use a medical handicap parking spot, or because I'm using a harness with a special handlebar that many people you know you as something that would be used for someone who's blind but are completely unaware and completely ignorant to the fact that some handlers have medical conditions you cannot see that cause instability of coordination balance vertigo things like that can put them off kilter and that is why I specifically have that type of handlebar attached to my service dog harness what regardless of his glasses on or not or his jacket is on or not during the winter and rainy time you know I have some stuff on it that shows the same stuff and all medical or give us space and it's just unfortunately people that serious type you based off your parents and because you don't look disabled enough to them they say you have you can't have that dog without a leash on them in the store I've had a pet store that you can try to explain you know my medical condition you may not think but that causes a dangerous situation for the Handler and the service dog if you have a medical condition like mine that's a group version and I have even dislocated my wrist my arm broken it because of the situation of having a leash so yeah I'm doing it a different way because I have a right to because of a medical condition. But again I get met with condescending remarks so you don't look disabled enough you're not physically handicapped you're not blind you should always have your dog on a leash undermining that I have a harness with a handlebar and I do Let It Go when I'm putting stuff in my grocery cart and I continue to seem to get more of these malicious attacks by seniors saying I don't look disabled how dare I you know mock blinds people and physically handicapped and how do I take the handicap parking spot from one of them it's like are you kidding me do you really think I want to be in this situation until there's a cure for this there's my service dog and I have a medical condition just because you can't see it and people are ignorant to the fact that there's many other medical conditions outside of mental illness and psychiatric in which somebody would have off leash using a harness and handle method or a tether method for their safety because of the medical condition and that does not make them any lesser of a human being there and it doesn't give anyone right to undermine them and their dignity by chastising you based off of your parents and I can't tell you how many times I've been told to move my car from a handicap parking spot and they assumed I was like 30 years old I'm 40 and that somehow I might have taken my family's relatives handicap sticker and stuck in my car I've had to deal with explaining and showing on police a paperwork for my doctor's office at specifically says here's all the medical conditions this is why I have my service dog and it has an are accurate with the diagnosis and my service dog size breed and everything he does for me and it's just like I have to take that out just to actually get a point across to a business or when I'm being really hounded by people when I'm getting out of my car or getting into my car and they become very hostile towards me and my service animal because they don't think I have a right to have a parking spot as if it were a physical disability should be only that because I use a harness with the handle instead of a leash that shame on me for trying to act like I'm blind and I'm not because he refused to look at the fact that there could be other medical conditions they can't see. That's why many like myself are actually taking initiative and putting a camera on her service animals so that if we go in places we can activate the cam if something happens we have to prove and they can't sweep it under the rug and and undermine what just happened. And another thing people don't seem to understand it's just cuz you don't look this is Abel doesn't mean you're not disabled and there's a lot of people who assume that if you don't look disabled it's a mental condition that you have, when in fact a lot of times that is not the case and the person is not mentally unstable they have a medical condition you cannot see and it's not activated at that time. So don't judge them based off of their appearance. This is not an invalid argument.

I follow Flirty on instagram😃

I'm going to tell you right off the back by every comment she's made it sounds like she has a emotional support task trained horse and not a service horse because I'll tell you for a service horses ears would never be back like that neither should a service animals ears be back like that cuz they're stressed and anxiety and fear you can tell she hasn't even gone that horse properly accumulated and decompressed into the environment that they're going to be going to frequently because if she did that horses Behavior there in terms of the ears and the way it was looking shows me it doesn't want to be there it needs more training and and she comes off as the type of person who will say her animals a service animal when it's just an emotional support task trained animal and yeah you can train them all you want but if it's for emotional support for your stress anxiety and all that which is an Esa not a service animal you're making it up because you want attention-seeking and validation and your harming literally legitimate handlers with service animals including service horses because I'll tell you I know people who have service horses and the horses don't have their ears back like that and they don't look like they're stressed and anxious they look comfortable because they've been adjusted to the places to decompress in a simulate and I don't see her doing any of that behavior that shows me she's a Handler by her actions it seems to be all about Texas City validation for her but undermining the Stress and Anxiety that she's pushing on to her horse because he's not comfortable with what is going on and that is something she needs to rectify if she's truly a Handler it's not about her it's about how she and horse wouldn't be responding to her and acting like that with the ears back the tail down flushing irritably if she was on the same page she needs to go back to training and work with her horse and be on that same level with the horse because otherwise it's all about her and I can say that's what it's coming across is she wants emotional support horse and she's going to claim it as a service animal and it's not because if it was she would not be treating her horse the way she's doing, and that horse would not be agitated frustrated and scared and fearful I'm worried that she's been taking her her anger or something out on the horse because the horse should not be eating like that and you can tell a good Handler and a service animal well it's a horse or a dog because they are in sync with one another and they are calm and they are not stressed and their ears aren't back and their tail is not swishing the Handler has to be aware of the well-being and safety and the connection with the horse or their dog and they have to make sure that they're comfortable at all times she clearly doesn't care about her horse like that.

Flirty’s ears are back when she’s walking, that means a horse is stressed or unhappy. I hope she enjoys her job

She shops at my grocery store work. She yelled at me for touching her horse when today I didn’t. I have autism and I like to feel things. I have touched flirty in the past but this time I didn’t. She literally accused me of doing something that I didn’t do except for in the past. How rude, just because you have a service animal doesn’t mean you can yell at people or be rude. It made me feel so bad I went home in tears.

This is BULL-SHIT.....she has a SERVICE DOG....named Sam. Again, she's lying.

If you have to take a horse with you,you arent fully functional...The world has gotten so ridiculous.my girlfriend is my emotional support animal yet she cant fly for free.

She is 100% after attention.

So sad that we have to put up with this nonsense. !00% attention and sympathy getter. All she needs is a trained monkey with a cowboy hat to ride her other pet. Maybe they can teach the monkey to dispense her meds with a tip of the cowboy hat too. Great. What a world we live in that we have to cater to these babies who just want attention.