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The ADA gives the example of a woman arriving at a restaurant with her service dog and asking to dine inside although dogs are only permitted outside. The restaurant cannot deny her request. 7.
An assistance dog pressing a button to open an automatic door Hearing-assistance dog being patted on its head. An assistance dog is a dog that receives specialized training to aid an individual with a disability in navigating everyday life.
A service animal is an animal that has been trained to assist a disabled person. The animal needs to be individually trained to do tasks that directly relate to the handler's disability, which goes beyond the ordinary training that a pet receives [3] [4] and the non-individualized training that a therapy dog receives.
Some animals are used due to sheer physical strength in tasks such as ploughing or logging. Such animals are grouped as a draught or draft animals. Others may be used as pack animals, for animal-powered transport, the movement of people and goods. Together, these are sometimes called beasts of burden.
Guide and service dogs are selected for temperament, resiliency and trainability, which make them suited for their roles, but many emotional support animals do not have the same characteristics.
A blind man is led by his guide dog in Brasília, Brazil. A blind woman learns to use her guide dog in a test environment. Guide dogs (colloquially known in the US as seeing-eye dogs [1]) are assistance dogs trained to lead blind or visually impaired people around obstacles.
Emotional support animals are typically household domesticated animals, [a] but may also be members of other animal species. [b] [4] There is no requirement under US federal law that an emotional support animal wear any identifying tag, patch, harness, or other indication that it is an emotional support animal.
Domestic rats have been trained as service animals, such as to identify damaging muscle spasms for people whose ability to sense this has been compromised by their disability; [8] [9] domesticated rats can be more useful than service dogs for purposes such as these due to their small size and lack of aggression.