ANFS100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Animal-Assisted Therapy, Emotional Support Animal, Service Animal
19 Mar 2019
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A service animal is any dog, trained/prescribed to do work or perform tasks for the benefit of an individual with a disability, including a physical, sensory, psychiatric, intellectual, or other mental disability. Defined in the americans with disabilities act (ada) of 1990. Other animals, whether wild or domestic, trained or untrained, are not service animals under this definition. The ada of 1990 prohibits any business, government agency, or other organization that provides access to the general public from barring guide dogs: The civil rights division includes miniature horses. The fair housing act requires that landlords allow tenants to have service animals in residences that normally have a no pets policy and that no extra fees may be charged for such tenants. The owner/landlord/hotel boss cannot restrict someone with a service animal or charge them extra to bring their animal with them. Service dogs are trained to provide assistance or perform a particular task for people with disabilities.
