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The
Pet Project is about people and their companion animals.
The
Pet Project for Pets, Inc. (The Pet Project) is a
nonprofit organization that serves the needs of low-income
pet owners who are living with AIDS or terminal or disabling
conditions and illnesses. The Pet Project offers comprehensive
services designed to enable our clients to keep their animal
companions. Services include an animal food bank, referrals
to subsidized or low-cost veterinary care, dog walking, litter
box maintenance, grooming, foster care and adoption when necessary.
At
the Pet Project we are dedicated to preserving the human/animal
bond between or clients and their companion animals. Those
that we serve are people with limited abilities and the animals
with which they share their lives. We provide comprehensive
care for approximately 300 animals in Broward and Dade county.
Our mission is to keep those animals with their guardians
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Emotional Support
Animals |
Advocates
and professionals have long recognized the benefits of assistive
animals for people with physical disabilities, including seeing
eye dogs or hearing dogs who are trained to perform simple
tasks such as carrying notes and alerting their owners to
oncoming traffic or other environmental hazards. Recent research
suggests that people with psychiatric disabilities can benefit
significantly from assistive animals, too. Emotional support
animals have been proven extremely effective at ameliorating
the symptoms of these disabilities, such as depression and
post-traumatic stress disorder, by providing therapeutic nurture
and support.
The
Fair Housing Amendments Act of 1988, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation
Act of 1973, and Title II of the Americans with Disabilities
Act protect the right of people with disabilities to keep
emotional support animals, even when a landlord's policy explicitly
prohibits pets. Because emotional support and service animals
are not "pets," but rather are considered to be
more like assistive aids such as wheelchairs, the law will
generally require the landlord to make an exception to its
"no pet" policy so that a tenant with a disability
can fully use and enjoy his or her dwelling. In most housing
complexes, so long as the tenant has a letter or prescription
from an appropriate professional, such as a therapist or physician,
and meets the definition of a person with a disability, he
or she is entitled to a reasonable accommodation that would
allow an emotional support animal in the apartment.
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