Service animals like cat and dog are trained well to perform certain tasks that are similarly related to the disability of a person. Therefore, this type of cat is required to solve the disability of a person and give companionship to person mainly in the public places like the government buildings, open businesses in public as well as the public transportations.
The law that is provided by the American disabilities act gives permission to the disabled persons to be accompanied by service animals. Compared to other animals, cats are trained only to a certain limit. However, the training given for service cat is not so easy. There is no possible ways to train them in an accurate level like teaching them to change the behavior in a glowing and cheerful relationship with the owners is enough. The relationships between the human and animal is the best training for the cat.
Some people are choosing cat as the emotional support animal to get relief from the traumatic disorders, reduction of blood pressure level as well as give companionship for those feeling stress. In these situations, cat act as the best partner for their improvement. These animals are so affectionate and will be comfortable for the people in the nursing homes as well as the other service care facilities.
Necessities for selecting a service animal
While selecting a service cat, the essential requirements that are needed for the selection process are :
- The first simple step is, the person needs a disability certificate that helps them to qualify as a person with some sort of disability and that must be based on the American Disabilities Act. Whereas most of the types of disabilities are invisible and occur rarely.
- Next step is the animal have to take the public access test to know how it is behaving in the public.
- Meet the requirements of the real service animal.
While selecting the emotional support animal as a service animal, every person should need to know about the criteria along with certain rules.
Rights and acts
The housing rights for the ESA can come under the act of Fair Housing amendments in the year 1998 with the requirement of all the landlords to put forward with the sensible accommodation for the animal to give permission to live with the tenant. This amendment act should remain on all housing landlords with their house rules.
Airline companies also provide support to the emotional support animal to come up with the ways that the disabled person can travel together with their emotional support animal. For those passengers, the airlines promote proper comfort, according to their convenience. The airline companies, make these travel arrangements for service animals through the Air Carrier Access Act.
The basic suggestions that are given by the airline companies are the person should explain the necessity of an emotional support animal and also to put the identification patch on their animal along with the ESA letter and the photo identity of the animal.