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05-26-2010, 04:18 PM | #51 | |||
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To have your dog in that situation, you must have an ESA letter. (Emotional Support Letter). You have to have a letter from your doctor stating that you have a disability and need the dog. If you go to the HUD website and search "Emotional Support Animal" they have an example letter of what the letter needs to look like. If you do not have such a letter, they can exclude the dog. |
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06-19-2010, 08:19 PM | #52 | ||
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How can one go about finding someone to write these letters for you?
I'm moving 7 hours away to start law school in the fall and would like to bring my 8 year old lab. It's in a neighborhood that shuns dogs, just because the entire area is taken over by students due to the size of the university and documentation would obviously help. I don't want to live further away because I hate driving (and sold my car actually) and the possibility of being late makes my throat tight. When I'm upset I go to her. She doesn't actually 'do' things to comfort me but she helps me to keep myself stable (I think because her ears go back and she looks so worried when I'm upset). She lived with my mom while I was in college but my mom thinks it'd be really good for me to take her especially since I'll be in a new area. I have a psychiatrist but I've never really been satisfied with her or with the others I've seen in the past. I don't actually think she'd find this idea that lovely. I found the medications ineffective and the copays really unpleasant on my just-out-of-undergrad budget. Also, since I'm moving I won't be seeing that psychiatrist anymore... there has to be some easier way to go about this than seeing her and immediately finding a new one to agree to this right after moving. |
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06-23-2010, 03:53 PM | #53 | |||
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If she doesn't actually do anything, then she is not a service dog, but can be an ESA if you are disabled per the ADA definition. Your treating physician has to be the one to write the letters. You do not have public access with an ESA but can live in no pet housing. |
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01-30-2011, 08:11 PM | #54 | ||
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I do have a question. You wrote that your dog is a therapy dog. Did you mean a Psychiatric Service Dog? I kind of assume that you did mean a PSD, but the two titles are very different. If you can prove that you kept your dog in the crate and had all the paperwork, I think you should sue the heck out of Southwest. I forget if you mentioned the breed you have. I just tried to research a little about dogs in airplane cabins, and, at the very least Continental is very clear about their policy toward pets. I also looked up the Southwest Airline's pet policy, which was a little ambiguos, but the dog should have been allowed on the airplaine "Small cats and dogs are now (effective June 17, 2009) allowed to travel in the cabin of the aircraft on Southwest Airlines flights. The pet must be small enough to fit in an approved under the seat carrier. Each airline has different rules regarding pets in the cabin. There was no mention of a policy for PSD's, but that makes your story even more infuriating. I'm not a lawyer, but I'm very passionate about the rights of people with invisible disabilities. I also don't remember the date that you had posted your story (memory issues directly related to my conditions), but I hope you don't have to go through an ordeal like that again. |
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01-31-2011, 06:56 PM | #55 | ||
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How about not using the term "psychiatric", "emotional" or "therapeutic." Simply "Medical Assist Service Dog." They are not allowed to ask the nature of the disability (severe psychiatric disorders, by the way are MEDICAL) - they just may ask what the animal is trained to do for you. Some give the pat answer of "ameliorate my medical disability." If necessary talk about alerting to medical episodes, or whatever.
Therapy dogs are NOT protected under the ADA. Just Service dogs. Medical vs emotional. Here's a book. Many medical conditions are "invisible" - such as epilepsy, meniere's, fragile bones, hearing loss, episodic fluctuations in blood pressure, heart conditions, and more. They are not allowed to ask the diagnosis. Last edited by Jaspar; 02-01-2011 at 12:40 PM. |
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05-01-2011, 07:49 AM | #56 | ||
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A doctor's Rx does NOT make an animal a service dog!!!! The SD MUST be trained to mitigate your disability so when you say "My dog qualifies as a SERVICE ANIMAL as she is necessary for me to live a bit more normally, organize my life, and provides me the courage to go places I need to go." it really sounds like you are living with a great pet, not a service dog. How is your dog trained to mitigate your disability? Please clarify. |
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05-01-2011, 11:02 AM | #57 | ||
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Here is a wonderful LONG list of tasks a dog can be trained for in order to help mitigate psychiatric disabilities:
SERVICE DOG TASKS for PSYCHIATRIC DISABILITIES It was written up by Joan Froling, Trainer Consultant, Sterling Service Dogs. The author of the It's Not Mental book talked about her and the use of such a dog (psychiatric service dog / medical assist service dog), even adding some to that list because of what the dog ended up doing for the child in the book. There were articles about the use of service dogs for a child with autism and a child with hallucinations and such in an IAADP newsletter years ago. These dogs were trained to "help mitigate disabilities." |
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06-24-2011, 09:58 PM | #58 | ||
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Only the third link (Fair Housing) is still good.
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01-20-2012, 04:27 PM | #59 | |||
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Therapy dogs are not one of the category of dogs that can stay with you. They must be 'invited' to the place where you take them. They do not have the same status as service dog.
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11-06-2012, 06:20 PM | #60 | ||
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I was wondering what other animals are used for emotional support I heard that some people use capuchin monkeys for this,if so dose anyone know how to get one I had a cat but he was no company at all talk about stuck up lol and I am scared of dogs, I live alone and do not go outside my home because it makes me have panic attacks my phych.thinks it would be good for me to have a monkey because it would be like a baby only it would not grow up and leave home,all my kids are growen and do not have time to keep me company any help on this would be most apersheated.
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