ICRC Factsheet, June 2010

Three Classes of Animals: 1. Pets are animals living with owners for purposes of love, affection, and company. 2. Emotional Support Animals provide some therapeutic benefit to person with mental or psychiatric disability, requiring no specific training. The mere presence of this animal mitigate the effects of the emotional or mental disability. 3. Service Animals are any animal individually trained to do work or perform tasks for the benefit of an individual with a physical, intellectual, and mental disability—IE guiding individuals with impaired vision, providing protection or rescue work, pulling a wheel chair, or fetching dropped items.