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What an a*se you are Nigel.

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All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
George Orwell, "Animal Farm"

I ahve muslim drivers working for me and they DO take dogs in the car it is just a minority of drivers who think that Britain shoukl be run according to non British traditions

Why can we not have a basic application questionnaire which asks questions like

Will you allow dogs in your car ? before issuing a badge

we live in a secular country not a muslim one if I visited a muslim country i would be expected to observe their customs and traditions the reverse should apply we are not denying them the right to their religion just asking them to accept a more pragmatic approach to living in a non muslim state

wel live just looked and my plate says "licensed for 4 PERSONS" no mention of dogs, cats, vietnamese pot belly pigs or parrots...

tell me, if a hack only offered the boot space for a dog and the punter declined, would they still be liable for a smack on the wrist?

my collie is happy in the boot

Maybe I'm bias, but I like dogs better than most people. As long as the dog is on the floor and behaving, itself what's the problem? At worst it means covering the seat with some sort of cover or blanket.

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All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
George Orwell, "Animal Farm"

if i didnt like dogs i wouldnt have this one, nor would we have had the last one for 12 years




the point is that paying (not me) maybe £20K for a nice new car and having Rover* leap across the seats isnt fair, not on the car owner nor the next punterm once moving the driver cant control where the dog is can he/she



*other dog names are available....

I can sort of see your point if it's a saloon car. Even so, I've never seen blind dogs leaping anywhere, they just do what they are told.

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All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
George Orwell, "Animal Farm"

Its not the act of carrying them i have a problem with, its the way the rules FORCE you to carry them and in some cases FORCE all HC's to be WAV's which never see a wheelchair job

No-one is forced to drive a cab.

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but if they do, they WILL ...... "whatever" ....

is that right?

I think that if drivers didn't discriminate using silly excuses there would be no need to 'force' them to take assistance dogs. These dogs are highly trained and well behaved and have always sat in the foot well in my vehicle. Drivers are not obliged to take any other animals if they don't want to

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and if the trained animal was other than a dog?....

Like what, exactly?

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Note to self: Just because it pops into my head does NOT mean it should come out of my mouth!!

doesnt/wouldnt matter, a hack is only SPECIFICALLY obliged to carry seeing eye DOGS

I agree. No one shouldn't be coerced into doing the job, for fear of losing their operator licence.

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All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
George Orwell, "Animal Farm"

I think you will find that you have to carry "assistance" dogs which also covers hearing dogs and possibly others.

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