What is an Emotional Support Animal?
Sorry couldnāt resist, again. Ok, Iāll stop now, maybe.
JF
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The only thing I found outdated is on Airbnb you can now charge a pet fee for emotional support animals. Was there some else?
Iād love to host a miniature horse! Google says that they are normally house trained and our floors are all tiled, just in case. Our HOA doesnāt allow dogs but thereās nothing about other animals and Iāve often hosted guests with cats.
It would have to be in our upstairs apartment though, as I imagine a horse in our upstairs apartment would be rather clompy which would irritate our downstairs neighbour.
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Fantastic! 
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Bring on the tiny ponies 
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Yes- it seems that hosts are no longer required to accept ESAs, except in specific locations, right?
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Well, horse poop is a very different thing from dog or cat poop anyway. The poop of non-carnivores is no way near as objectionable.
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No Airbnb backed off that. Itās in this thread
The policy as it is currently written says:
What we allow:
- Unless the reservation is a stay in New York or California (USA) or another location where applicable law prohibits it:
- Hosts may charge pet fees for a guest who is traveling with an emotional support animal
- Hosts are allowed to decline the presence of emotional support animals from a stay or Experience
I got this notification from Airbnb yesterday:
The message is a hot link that went to this:
ESAs are just pets on Airbnb now and can be charged a fee or refused, Unless the reservation is a stay in New York or California (USA) or another location where applicable law prohibits it.
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Yeah. I just stepped/slid in a large lump of fresh deer poop (true story). I object. Vehemently.
But will confessā¦I canāt smell it from āup hereā, so thereās that.
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Thatās what I meant- it doesnāt smell bad at all.
LOL, I know. I was just being funny (well trying anyway 
). I really did slip in it though. Had to scrape it out of my shoe treads with a stick. Objectively objectionable 
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Thank you. I actually posted screen shots of their revised again accessibility policy two days ago & missed noticing that paragraph.
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Airbnb let me know on February 28th the policy is that they allow service and emotional support animals, and I canāt deny someone booking. I was able to decline the guest based on age as my minimum age limit is 28.
Service animals must be allowed in the USA-Federal law.
Emotional support animals are such a bother.
This thread is long and in a very short time, Airbnb did at least revisions to their service animal & ESA rules & removed existing policies. Screen shots of the new policy are a few posts up in the thread.
Glad you found a workaround.
Btw Airbnb just changed their age rules. They used to say ok to restrict age to rent as long as the restriction didnāt violate the law. They are now more restrictive. (Edit I take that back-some of the old wording is back. Theyāve been on a policy change binge)
The representative for Airbnb backed me on my age rule so who knows what they are up to.
I think people with emotional support animals should be required to rent a place that allows animals. Completely different from Service Animals.
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