Unfortunately ESAs only have housing rights. They do not have public service rights like psychiatric service dogs.

I suffer from severe social anxiety and others and that’s not even enough to bring my ESA with me into places?

It’s wonderful you are getting an emotional support dog and ESA recommendation from your therapist. However, we want to make clear that ESAs do not have public access rights. The only place they have rights are in no-pets residences. You cannot however take them into stores, restaurants and other public venues that prohibit pets.

I am getting emotional support dog from my therapist who also understands that need to bring it to places because I had a very bad experiences in my life and I can get upset really fast because I am emotional person who can’t control myself
Will be taking it to lot of places to help me through my daily life that is very stressful for me

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I have an ESA. Unless you suffer with mental health such as anxiety panic attacks PTSD depression. Phobias you don’t understand the comfort and love they bring to you. I take her everywhere with me. I place her bed in the shopping cart and away we go. She is well received by all. Even the biggest of men that may look scary smile. To the person that commented on not wanting to use a cart a shedding dog was in. You do realize humans shed too. We carry more germs
Think about everything you touch and take those germs with you. ESAs provide comfort Love companionship sometimes more than a human does. Keep this in mind as one day you or someone you know and love may have a life altering experience and find great comfort and a beautiful relationship with an ESA. Please keep in mind ESAs fall under your civil rights

Although I understand 98% of humans have completely ruined it for the rest of us, most of us that truly suffer from severe social anxiety and panic disorder cannot afford a $40,000 service dog, therefore we have to rely on ESA dogs to get us through the day. There are good people left that obey laws and really count on these dogs to get us through the store in one piece. I have to go out sometimes. People are mean, rude, and scary. Emma keeps me focused so I can get what I need and get out without folding on the floor like a heap. Not all of us are using the system. I totally get where you are coming from, but my dog up in my cart where I can see her, and pet her is exactly where she needs to be. She has a working best, and no one is allowed to touch her. Just knowing she won’t leave me, and is there to calm me from cruel people right in front of me is why she is a registered ESA from my doctor. I didn’t do it to annoy you, or anyone else. It’s the people that use it wrong that are ruining it for the rest of us. Don’t judge everyone else. I also have a therapist I see every week. Emma is still needed.

ESAs do not have legal rights in stores or any other public venues. They only have housing rights and you need an ESA letter from a licensed healthcare professional to qualify for one.

Companion dogs/ESA dogs are NOT service dogs. Service dogs provide an actual service besides just being a calming presence. Service dogs guide people who are blind, can sense when a seizure is coming on, can sense when a diabetic needs insulin and so on.

Sadly if the law were to change than any person with a dog can claim they are an ESA when they aren’t. And on the other side of the coin people do have allergies to dogs and if a store has 20 people in it claiming they are all ESA dogs well that’s not fair either.