Puppies, Ponies, Pigs, and Parrots: Policies, Practices, and Procedures in Pubs, Pads, Planes and Professions: Where We Live, Work, and Play, and How We Get There: Animal Accommodations in Public Places, Housing, Employment, and Transportation

This Article addresses how disability discrimination policy clarifies when animals might be allowed as accommodations in various settings. It provides the basic statutory and regulatory framework for these settings, additional administrative agency guidance, and some judicial interpretations of these requirements in various settings. Major settings where animals might be an accommodation are addressed separately, with particular focus on (1) higher education institutions because those settings have the potential of incorporating several different types of settings and (2) health care settings because of the particular concerns about health and safety.