Emotional Support Animals Make A Difference🐇🐩🐱
Learn Why And See How To Register Below:
An Emotional Support Animal (ESA) is a animal that
provides a therapeutic benefit (e.g., emotional support, comfort,
companionship) to a person with a mental health or psychiatric
disability (such as a serious mental health condition).
An ESA is not considered a Service Animal, but under
U.S. law, an emotional support animal is also not considered a pet and
is generally not restricted by the type of animal.1, 2 Any domesticated
animal may be considered as an ESA (e.g., cats, dogs, mice, rabbits,
birds, hedgehogs, rats, minipigs, ferrets, etc.) and they can be any
age. However, an ESA must be able to be manageable in public and does
not create a nuisance.
ESAs do not perform specific tasks, instead, it is the
presence of the animal that relieves the symptoms associated with a
persons serious mental health condition. For a person to legally have an
emotional support animal (ESA), the owner must be considered to have a
qualifying mental health or psychiatric disability by a licensed mental
health professional (e.g., therapist, psychologist, psychiatrist, etc.),
which is documented by a properly formatted prescription letter. The
difference between a legitimate ESA and a pet is the letter from your
licensed mental health professional.