An Emotional Support Animal is an animal that provides emotional support which alleviates one or more identified symptoms or effects of a person’s disability and/or provides emotional support to persons with disabilities who have a disability-related need for support.
Service Animals are working animals, not pets. The work or task a dog has been trained to provide must be directly related to the person’s disability. Examples of such work or tasks include guiding people who are blind, alerting people who are deaf, pulling a wheelchair, alerting and protecting a person who is having a seizure, reminding a person with mental illness to take prescribed medications, calming a person with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) during an anxiety attack, or performing other duties