Few Do’s and Don’ts of Service Animal International Travel

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2. Few Do’s and Don’ts of Service Animal International Travel • We all live in a busy and chaotic world with burdens, stress, and turmoils apparently around every bend of our lives. While we all deal with such burdens and stress in our everyday life, for some folks, these troubles can be unbearable. When we realize that we are unable to bear the stress and burdens of our everyday life, we might find ourselves questioning what we can do to help improve our emotional suffering. While medications can help deal with these conditions, not everybody wants to go this way. • In the recent times, it is widely noticed that befriending an emotional support animal could help you manage your unbearable anxiety, stress or depression. Sometimes all it takes is a lick to the face or a furry cuddle to lift your spirits. No doubt, humans share a great bonding with animals. It is widely observed that animals can greatly impact the emotional and psychological condition of the people. There are many stories about how dogs have helped individuals with depression. What’s the most exciting part is that formal research shows that service and companion animals are effective in treating depression and anxiety, as well as improving overall health.

3. Often times, it has been noticed that anxiety or depression avoid contact with the outside world, either out of fear or stress of what may happen. Anxiety and depression involve emotional turmoil and negative internal self-talk. These thoughts typically spiral into unrealistic negativity and this continues in a vicious cycle. • Animals like dogs can help break that cycle by offering comforting companionship and a sense of purpose for their owners. The unconditional love and support provided by the animals helps the individuals a lot, dealing with stress, anxiety, or depression. Love and true connection do exist in the world, and animals are a great resource to find this within one’s life. • Owing to this great bonding shared by humans and animals, the concept of service animals or support animals came into existence. The most important job of a service animal or support animal is to lessen or mitigate the psychological or emotional symptoms associated with the handler’s psychological or emotional disabilities. Animals are a lot more smarter than you think and can provide their owners the emotional comfort or support needed when they are depressed or feeling low. They also act as a constant companion and friend for the handler.

4. Here are the few ways a service animal or support animal can change your life if you are suffering from a psychological disorder or are feeling low: • Help Battle emotional conditions like depression, anxiety, stress, etc • Improves overall health condition • Alleviates anxiety

5. These days, having a service or companion animal is quite common. But, because of the popularity of the therapeutic treatment offered by these kinds of animals, there were introduced strict laws on it. So, if you are emotionally distressed and believed you could benefit from a service animal, your first step should be to visit a mental health professional. If the psychiatrist diagnoses you with a debilitating mental illness or an unbearable emotional condition, you can get yourself a companion or service animal of your choice. The certified therapist will issue you a service animal letter that will help you deal with the travel and housing-related laws. Having a service animal letter holds an utmost importance because there are reportedly problems faced on flights due to ESAs. Moreover, there are some do’s and don’ts as well that implies on traveling with service animals on flights. The safety of every person boarding the flight is of utmost importance.

6.  Even if you are having a service animal domestic or international travel letter, you are required to follow few do’s and don’ts. Let’s see what are they: • Do Necessarily Provide Proper Documentation  • It is important that you provide all the documentations related to the service animal properly. Carrying proper documentation will make the process of flying with your ESA or support animal simpler. • Don’t Bring Excessively Large Animals  • While you need the support of your companion animal, it is also important that you consider the safety of others as well. Bringing in large animals can cause problems. Moreover, there are accommodation issues as well. • So, to individuals with peacock or a horse as an emotional support animal, it is a recommendation to not board the flight with these kinds of animals. It is very difficult to accommodate these kinds of service animals on airlines.

7. Do Help Your Animal Behave  • Make sure that the animals are properly trained regarding their behavior. They shouldn’t be harming anybody on the flight. • Don’t Travel with these Exotic Animals  • If you have reptiles hedgehogs, ferrets, rodents, or spiders as an emotional support animal, then don’t travel with them on flights. They can harm others. While the way these animals can help is appreciated, it is also important that the safety of all others boarding the flight is kept in mind. So, try and avoid traveling with these kinds of animals. • Do Keep the Airlines Informed about Your ESA Beforehand • Each airline has a different set of rules and regulations, so keeping them informed about your service animal travel will help them as well as you, to make, the procedure of boarding, convenient. They will able to do travel accommodation for your service animal and keep you informed about the documentation and procedure you have to follow during boarding the flight with your service animal.

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