ESA is not for People with Physical Disability

Emotional support animal therapy is so common nowadays. Several people including teenagers are suffering from mental health problems like anxiety, depression, anger, and stress. In the USA, laws are passed by lawmakers for ESA pets so people can take their pets to schools, stores even for traveling. ESAs are different from service animals as ESA does not train to do things like service animals, they need the same attention and care as a mentally ill person.

 But many people try to change and bend the rules according to their needs. ESA animals are not trained to go anywhere like in schools and universities with the owner. After the law of Fair Housing Amendments Act (FHA) people take ESAs as their support to cure mental disabilities. But some people who are mentally and physically disable misuses this act and also takes ESAs for service animals as well. Although ESAs are not considered under service animals by the government.

For people who are physically disabled, they can take specially trained animals to do many disability tasks like pulling or pushing something. These animals also provide a guide to blind people. 

Services are licensed to go in places with their owner but ESAs are not allowed. ESAs are not specially trained for a physically disabled person so they are not allowed at schools, universities, and traveling. In case of mental disorder issues, you get a special license to get your ESA pet with you at school, university or hospital otherwise everyone has not allowed doing so. 

You can further check “free emotional support animal letter” samples online to get a better idea of how to write an ESA letter. You can contact professionals as well to get assistance in your process.

Many people, mostly youngsters get ESA pets but don’t aware of their responsibilities and care that ESA pet needs. They treat them as service animals, take to the public places and not care about their needs. Professional pet trainers clear that there is a huge difference between ESA and service animals. A person who is documented as physically disabled then they are recommended to take especially task performing service animals.

For a physically disabled person like who lost their vision, hearing or not be able to walk service animals are specially trained to provide support. That’s why service animals accompany a person at school, office or any other public place. While ESA rests at home and supports people who fight with their mental disabilities.

 So emotional support animals stay home when you go out and give you support when getting back home. If you want to have your pet to give you support 24 hours then you must know that you have to take a service animal for this purpose, not an ESA pet. Because ESA can sense your mood and make you happy.

What we need to do is to educate people about the difference between ESA and service animals. Service animal’s purpose is to provide you physical support and ESA provides you just emotional support to cure your mental illness. Because there are many ESA pets we see, which are used to do service work as well. This is against the law of ESA pets and most of these laws are written on the ESA letter.

In many institutions, professional animal trainers give training to animals to do physical tasks like turning of switching the lights, stop children from going into traffic, and give the training to follow the instructions of their handlers. All training is given to service animals for a physically disabled person.