Any chance that you are living outside of the U.S.?
Some info that I copied:
"When there is no restriction on species, unfortunately, too many are encouraged to push the boundary or to use disability law to keep exotic pets that would not ordinarily be permitted. We've seen instances of pigs, goats, snakes, birds, hamsters, and fish claimed as service animals. Despite the fact that most of these animals cannot be trained to actually perform any useful tasks. In short, they are comfort animals that cause people to feel better just by their presence.
The U.S. Department of Justice has long had a policy that animals whose sole function is to provide emotional support are not service animals, and now is planning to explicitly include that in the definition of "service animal" as it applies to the ADA. They are also considering restricting the species that can be used either to "common domestic animal" excluding "wild animals (including nonhuman primates born in captivity), reptiles, rabbits, farm animals (including any breed of horse, miniature horse, pony, pig, or goat), ferrets, amphibians, and rodents," OR only dogs.
There will be no more goats, pigs, monkeys, horses, or anything like that after the updated ADA changes go into effect in 2009. For those of us who have legitimate service animals, it is a great relief."
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03 Mar 2009, 9:37 pm
it is suppsed to help kids with aspergers by calming them down before a fit and we are thinking about getting me one because animals calm me down it basically is the same reason why they have theripy dogs it might also help me with not getting hyper because of my adhd there is a boy at my school who has a seeing eye dog
