March 2019
By: Elizabeth B. Stallard
An area that o en leads to questions, especially given recent e orts by airlines and others to limit animals in their places of business, is what kinds of animals are entitled to legal protection.
A “Service Animal” is a dog that is individually trained to do work or perform tasks for a person with a disability. Examples of the kinds of work and tasks that a service animal may perform 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. e work or task the dog has been trained to perform must be directly related to the person’s disability.
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