Just Google Emotional Support Animal letter and follow the "sponsored" links. You can have your letter in 24 hours after paying money. Our teams licensed professionals are waiting on-line now to respond to you. I'm not going to post any links, because why should I do something that will give those sites search engine pop.
Where do you draw the line between an emotional support animal and a pet? Really, you can draw the line anywhere you want to draw it, and if you make money giving out ESA letters, you will readily conclude that any animal that provides comfort to a person is providing emotional support. And when you can draw a line anywhere you want, there is not such thing as a line.
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But I don't know why you seem to be contending with me. You and I are in total agreement. I understand and accept that emotional support animals provide a legitimate service. I agree that people should be allowed to fly with emotional support animals. I just don't see where ESAs are in some fundamentally different category than pets. That is completely different from use of a service animal to provide vision or hearing assistance to a blind or deaf person.
An ESA letter must be written by a licensed mental health professional.
The rules are very clear when it comes to this question. In order to get a valid emotional support animal letter, it needs to come from a licensed mental health professional. Licensed mental health professionals include psychiatrists, psychologists, licensed clinical social workers, psychiatric nurses, licensed professional counselors, and other licensed therapists.
This is what your ESA letter needs to have:
Mental health professional’s letterhead and signature, as well as date of issuance
Mental health professional’s license type, date of license, license number, and the state that issued the license
Confirmation that an emotional support animal is a vital part of your life
Description of how the animal will help the condition (though they do not need to perform a task specifically for your condition)
“Prescription” (although not technically a prescription, it is commonly referred to as an ESA prescription) or recommendation for an ESA
Your name and details about your pet (type, breed, name, etc.) is not required but may be included
Like we have already explained above, only a licensed mental health professional can “prescribe” or recommend a valid emotional support animal letter. Take note of the term "licensed mental health professional".
And before this even comes into play yes, there are those claiming to be licensed mental health professionals. This is the case in any profession. If you wish to, you can find some scam artist who will provide documentation for any support animal. Even those animals supported in this conversation as legitimate. Does it happen? Of course it does. I've help put people in jail for claiming to be a doctor and even having their own office and guess what, all they had were fake degrees. So yes, it does happen. Always has and always will.
Just because someone doesn't believe that there are legitimate emotional support animals doesn't mean there's not.
Also, please don't take your pet to the airport claiming that they're a "legitimate" emotional support animal. Pardon the pun but, that won't fly.