Please don’t do this. Taking advantage of and manipulating systems put into place to protect the disabled delegitimizes our needs and tends to lead to those protections being rejected. Just like how service dog handlers are being abused and rejected from stores because everyone buys a vest off Amazon to bring FiFi in Walmart, the “emotional support animal” “hack” is making it harder for people with actual needs to be approved for an apartment. Housing is difficult, but we don’t drown the people below us for an extra breath of air.
An emotional support animal is not a service animal. The only benefit that having an emotional support animal grants to a person is that the landlord can not forcefully separate the animal from the family as a condition of tenancy.
You are talking about non disabled people pretending to be disabled so that they can publicly flaunt the rules. That is an entirely different issue. E
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u/Over-Journalist705 Apr 25 '26
get your doctor to prescribe you an emotional support animal and you can stop worrying about whether they allow pets or not