Not every dog can be a service, therapy or emotional support dog. Influential factors include the age of the dog; quality of early socialization; aversive/ traumatic experiences; breeding; breed; quality of training; and individual differences.
I have seen a number of people who purchased a dog with the intent of making their dog into a service, therapy, or emotional support dog. Many times, they got bad advice and the wrong dog, and they are not openminded to hear that it wasn't going to work out.
I spoke to a woman with a disability a few months ago that had done this exact thing. She didn't want to hear that she had picked the wrong breed, wrong breeder, wrong training plan, that she needed to socialize the puppy before it was 16 weeks of age, that the dog was going to be too powerful for her to handle, and such. She had done her own research online and by talking to the breeder and believed what she wanted to hear.
Many people with disabilities are on a limited income. The amount of money that is necessary to invest in getting a dog to do the work can be significant. And then, if it doesn't work out, and often it won't, they will be with a dog that can't do the job, the disability won't be addressed as planned, and they will be out of luck because they will be out of funds.
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