“As a marine, we’ve always had someone there to watch our backs...Having Atlas at my side all the time gives me the same sense of security,” Nic Days says of his service dog.
After serving 13 years in the Marine Corps, including four deployments overseas, Nicholas “Nic” Day is “proud to have served my country and I would do it all again in a heat beat” — no matter the costs to himself.
After trying the full range of treatments for his PTSD with little to no success, Nic finally decided to try getting a service dog. However, with an increasing number of emotional support dogs, Nic says he sometimes has issues with businesses allowing him to have Atlas with him at all times. He was once refused at a local hospital after the staff would not allow his service dogs — an incident that left Nic on suicide watch for a couple of weeks. Now, the 40-year-old veteran says getting kicked out of an Oregon hotel for his service dog has once again “exacerbated my PTSD.
Nic says the night manager acquiesced after their explanation and checked the couple into their hotel room. However, the following morning, the couple found that their hotel cards were de-activated; they couldn’t get back into their room. When Atlas began pawing at his owner, Tina allegedly told Nic to walk away and allow her to handle the situation. When she printed out the ADA regulations on service dogs and explained that the last time Nic was refused that he was put on suicide watch, Nic claims the general manager asked if they had a gun.
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