23. Animal Assistance for Mental Health (Service dogs, emotional support animals, and therapy dogs)

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The Healing Pod: Navigating Anxiety and Mental Health Together

Megan McRae

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The Healing Pod will offer practical guidance by sharing authentic, real-life examples to help you learn how to apply essential skills in deepening your relationship with self, your surroundings, and your support systems through humor, real talk, and all things that speak to our souls. We will explore ways to navigate anxiety and cultivate genuine connections with personal growth and progress as we learn to take up space in this world and allow ourselves to be seen.

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23. Animal Assistance for Mental Health (Service dogs, emotional support animals, and therapy dogs)

The Healing Pod: Navigating Anxiety and Mental Health Together

52 minutes 15 seconds

10 months ago

23. Animal Assistance for Mental Health (Service dogs, emotional support animals, and therapy dogs)

Episode 23

Welcome to the Healing Pod!

In this episode, Kc pinch hits for Jessica again (hi new Jess nephew!! Hope all is well still!!) and we talk about the difference between a Therapy Dog (Kirby’s job), Emotional Support Animal (housing rights for a pet that benefits your mental health treatment, requires a doctor’s note), and Service Dog (medical equipment taught to do a task to mitigate a disability).

Kc will likely share this with dogbook so hi! Thanks for finding us! If you want to talk feel free to reach out to us anywhere online. And if you would like to come on the podcast and talk more about this topic either to expand on our limited information or to correct it, just let me know! Always happy to have a guest.

I did find someone that recorded a call with the ADA who told them no, a wolf-dog hybrid is not allowed as only dogs are allowed: https://actuallyservicedogs.tumblr.com/post/133418301708/servicedoodle-can-wolfdogs-be-service-animals

There is no breed restriction for dogs. Wolves are considered a different species, not breed. Same would go for coyotes/coydogs.

More handy FAQs for Service Dogs: https://www.ada.gov/resources/service-animals-faqs/

It is also helpful to know you can simply call the Department of Justice and ask the people whose job it is to know if you have any questions on ADA and Service Dog regulations.

As always, thank you to the wonderful Miki Anderson for our intro and outtro music. She can be found under Pax Minerva on Apple Music and is all around a wonderful human being.

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