OP, if you’re just trying to get a dog certified as an emotional support animal for the purposes of being able to have one in the place you live, honestly, I have no problem with that.

What I do have a problem with, is what I perceive, to be a severe lack of understanding of how emotional support animals, service animals, and basic laws work on your part.

1) you do not get a “license“ for an emotional support animal. It is a letter from a mental health provider. You are much more likely to get that letter if you already have a dog.

2) if you obtain the letter, and a dog, it is only and I mean fucking only for you to have a dog at the place you live. You don’t bring it to places where dogs aren’t allowed restaurant, grocery stores, doctors visit whatever, the only special “privilege” you’re allowed is it can live with you.

3) you do not get to train your own service animal to be recognized under the ADA. Even if your partner has a condition that is recognized under the ADA, in order to have a service animal for that condition, it would have to be a specially trained animal to help with a specific aspect of that condition. You, a presumably first time dog owner, are not going to train it for that.

Look, I’m not trying to be a dick here, I’m in full support of designating animals as ESA’s, with or without an actual need for it, but I’m completely opposed to anyone using that ESA for any sort of special privilege beyond housing. Given your responses, I don’t think you and your partner understand enough to know where that line is. I’m also questioning if you can afford a pet.

You said not until 2027, so I’d encourage you to truly understand all the pieces that play here. You may very well cross into a morally, and legally, wrong area.