While it's truly amazing that people struggling physical and mental illnesses or disabilities can receive assistance from a service animal, this thread points out just how easy it is to fake these needs to abuse the system. And unfortunately it happens all the time. I'd wager that many of the people you see on the subway, in restaurants, at bars, are getting away with a pretty big deception. Lying in this way can give service animals a bad reputation, complicate the lives of people who really n…