The term Emotional Support Animal (ESA) is becoming quite popular.
Not exact matches
The
terms service
animal, assistance
animal,
emotional support animal, comfort
animal, and therapy
animal mean the same thing under the Fair Housing Act.
Sometimes people use the
term «PTSD dog» to refer to a dog that provides
emotional support but isn't specially trained, but such dogs are
emotional support animals (ESAs), not service dogs.
When you first start investigating the world of service dogs, and especially if you're looking into psychiatric service dogs, you'll quickly come across the
term ESA, or
emotional support animal.
The law is a bit ambiguous because when the ADA was created the
terms comfort
animal or
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