Emotional support dogs also known as ESA's are commonly used around the world. Emotional support dogs help with stress, loneliness, and can encourage routines and activities. Most people ask if Emotional support dogs need basic training or not. Basic training with Emotional support dogs can improve the safety and cause less stress for the owner but can lead to the lost of tons of money and/ or cause debt. Basic training for Emotional support dog can help the safety for the owner and the dog itself. Basic training improves the dogs behavior in public and at home. It reduces the risk of the dog jumping on others and running after others or at small objects in the area. It also reduces the barking from the dog in small or crowded places. Basic training can lower the stress of the owner. With the training, it helps the owner have more time of the day to do other activities instead of training the dog themselves. Basic training creates a calmer environment for the owner and looses the anxiety the owner could have. The training helps the owners anxiety when going out places. It can also help build trust and have a stronger connection with thier emotional support dog. A con of basic training is the cost. Basic training can vary to a couple hundreds to a couple of thousands. This could result to the owner not being able to take care of the dog properly and causing more stress on the owner. The cost could lead the owner to give up the dog and/ or causing more anxiety and loneliness. In conclusion, basic training should be required for emotional support dogs. For the safety and for reducing stress of the owners. The cost if basic training shouldn't be required or should be lowered. Basic training should be a requirement world-wide.
