Hey tumblr! Did you know that if you suffer from depression / anxiety or any other mental illness, you can register your dog as an emotional support animal, making it illegal for a landlord to refuse to rent to you? That’s right. No breed restrictions, no weight restrictions, no matter what, they are not allowed to refuse.
This includes cats, rabbits, birds, guinea pigs, etc.!! Go here to register your pet as an ESA :~)
No, no, please do not use that site. Please. Any site that charges a fee for this is a huge scam, all you will get is a meaningless piece of paper that your landlord can shrug off with no consequences. Unfortunately, the internet’s full of unscrupulous assholes who have no problem preying on disabled people.
Emotional Support Animals are a thing that your doctor can legitimately give you a prescription for, but you have to go through your doctor to have any leg to stand on and it isn’t a no-strings-attatched trump card over your building’s animal policies - you landlord has to make reasonable concessions, but they can still object if your animal is disruptive to other tenants or destructive of property. The law protects your right to have a companion animal to help you function, not your right to have a hundred and thirty pound furbaby you insist can do no wrong even while it’s eating holes in the walls and barking at the neighbor’s children.
If you rent your home and want to establish your pet as an emotional support animal, the Service Dog Central website has a page with advice for securing an emotional support animals in housing, including samples of what your letter to your landlord might look like, and how to write a “resume” for your pet to establish that it’s suitable as an ESA.
Please be careful and do your research - stick to websites associated with nonprofits and educational institutions, and don’t pay any money to anyone who isn’t your doctor or your lawyer. See also, the aforementioned unscrupulous assholes.