Iraq Veteran loses apartment over PTSD Service dog

Orangevale Soldier Forced Out Of Home Over Service Dog Dispute
CBS Sacramento
Ian Schwartz
April 4, 2014

ORANGEVALE (CBS13) — A dispute over a soldier’s service dog has forced him out of his home after he says his landlord threatened to evict him because he thought the dog was a pit bull.

While Zorro isn’t a pit bull, both should have been allowed to stay.

Eric Salonga and his wife are in the process of moving after they say they ran out of options because the landlord refused to listen to them when it came to their service dog.

Zorro is a family member, friend and service dog to Eric Solanga, an Iraq War veteran coping with post-traumatic stress disorder.

“He knows when something is freaking me out, and he’ll come and lick me,” he said.

For six months, the family lived with Zorro in an Orangevale duplex with no problems. Then the landlord saw Eric’s wife walking a couple of months ago.

“And he said, ‘That’s a pit bull,’ and my wife said, ‘No he’s not.’ It doesn’t matter anyway,” Eric said.

He says the shelter where the got Zorro listed him as a Jack Russell-Beagle mix, not a pit bull. Eric told his landlord and gave him paperwork showing Zorro was also a service dog recommended by his doctor.

“Then we received a letter, and it was from his attorney, explaining why they wanted us to vacate,” Eric said.
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