Recently, a restaurant put up a board saying it does not allow emotional support animals in its premises.
The sign created a stir online, with some criticizing the move while others praising the bold decision. Before deciding whose side you are on, read further.
First, let us get some things straight. An emotional support creature is not a service animal.
The Americans with Disabilities Act explains service animals as small horses or dogs that are trained to execute specialized tasks, such as detecting seizures or leading a blind person.
On the other hand, emotional support animals offer comfort with their presence, and usually, do not undergo special training.
To update a pet’s status as ESA or emotional support animal, all a person requires is a letter by therapist asserting the creature adds to their psychological wellbeing.
However, there are for-profit websites, knows as ESA mills by some psychologists, that will facilitate a dubious and quick disability appraisal by a psychologist via a web survey or over the phone to those who do not have a therapist.
And while ESAs are not legally allowed to go around everywhere in public along with their owners, they do come with advantages.
Equipped with a psychologist’s letter, ESA’s owner may take their pets into an animal-free dormitory or apartment, and fly with their ESA in a flight’s cabin for free.
Many people interchange the term service animals with emotional support animals, which is wrong.
Service animals have been provided with special training that instructs them how to behave professionally, whereas, an ESA has not been given any such training.
So, they might behave unprofessionally, attacking service animals and people, urinating, and defecating publically.
There have been reports of ESAs like peacocks starting pandemonium in airports, hamsters being flushed in frenzy, amongst other such incidents.
Now, what do you think about the restaurant’s decision?
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