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What’s the Difference Between Service Animals and Emotional Support Animals? Service animals are trained to take a specific action to assist a person with a disability. Service Animals are protected under the rules for Titles II and III of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). This means that service animals must be allowed any place the public is allowed, including restaurants, hotels, and hospitals. Dogs, and in some cases miniature horses, are the only animals that can be recognized as service animals under the ADA. Under Oregon State Law, service-animals-in-training are also protected. Emotional support animals (sometimes called companion or comfort animals) provide disability-related emotional support. Emotional support animals are not specifically protected under the "in public" parts of ADA, and they do not have to be allowed into public spaces. And what about workplaces? Employers should fairly consider a request to bring a service or emotional support animal to the workplace like they would consider any other employee accommodation request.



The Fair Housing Act requires reasonable modifications to policy so that disabled people can use and enjoy our housing. It is common to modify a no-pet policy to allow service and emotional support animals. Any animal can be recognized as an emotional support animal. Both employers and landlords can ask for documentation from a health professional stating that an emotional support animal is required because of a disability. If the need for a service animal is not obvious, employers and landlords can also ask for documentation from a health professional that a service animal is required because of a disability. This is different than in public places, where documentation cannot be requested. Who Uses a Service Animal? And What Do Service Animals Do? Service animals are not just for blind people. It is a common misconception that service animals are only used by people with visual disabilities. Dogs can be trained to perform a variety of tasks like alerting their handlers to sounds, checking areas for a threat, detecting seizures, retrieving items, detecting low or high [[http://bloomwiki.org/index.php/Onetouch_Verio_Test_Strip_100%27s|GlucoLife blood sugar formula]] sugar, interrupting self-harm or distress, and more.



As you might imagine, these services could be useful for people with many kinds of disabilities. And people may have different service dogs who are trained to do different things. Notice all those discrete and very specific tasks listed above? This is also an excellent opportunity to mention that service animals do not "guide" or "lead" blind people from place to place. Service dogs are responding to a series of commands given by their handlers. What about emotional support animals? Emotional support animals could be any kind of animal, and they are not usually specifically trained. Instead, their presence provides disability-related emotional support and alleviates symptoms of a disability, like lessening anxiety or depression. Still fuzzy on the difference? Check out this excellent example of a psychiatric service dog vs. To recap, service animals are highly trained perform work or tasks to assist a person with a disability. Want to know how highly trained? Because service animals are allowed in any public place, there are still a lot of fears about badly-behaved service dogs [[https://www.houzz.com/photos/query/disrupting%20business|disrupting business]].



Let’s talk about some of the protections that exist and offer some brief thoughts on some of the most common, "What If’s" out there. What if I Think Someone is Lying About Having a "Service Animal? 1. Is your dog required because of a disability? 2. What work or task is it trained to perform? Questions about someone’s disability, asking the dog to demonstrate the task, or requests for "certification" or other kinds of documentation are not allowed. Why? Well, disability is private, the task may not be demonstrate-able, and people are allowed to train their own service animal (meaning they may not have documentation). This is a situation where we are balancing the right of people with disabilities to have some privacy and autonomy with the rights of business owners to protect their business and customers. With the increasing visibility of service animals, confusion over emotional support animals, and conversation around fraud, there are lots of people wondering why service animal handlers don’t have to provide proof that their animal has been trained or registered as a service animal.