Radio "required" not working, check-box not appropriate…

Hello. The reservation form on this site (green button on right):
https://happyhound.com

…contains a radio selector at the top, and as you’ll see, there’s a script associated with the ‘no’ option that puts up a special message when you select it. This option needs to be selected by the user, can’t be selected by default (because we have no way of knowing if they are a new customer), and that script doesn’t work when I try the ‘checkbox* exclusive’ option (and that option doesn’t seem to toggle between the yes/no choices anyway).

So I’m wondering if there’s not some way of having the radio button be required as it’s supposed to be. The owner of this site gets about 30% of inquiries that do not answer this question, and it needs to be answered.

Thanks!

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