For example, service horses are federally recognized as a service animal.

A service dog can ONLY be a dog (or rarely, a miniature horse).

Looking back, I think a few things I did right (at first by lucky accident, and later by deliberate planning) made this possible:1)I timed my appreciation plays very well ... not that I nailed the absolute bottom of the market upon purchase (though I have), but like horse-shoes, hand grenades, and nuclear warfare, close is sometimes good enough.

@Art Maydan  Hold your horses!

It needs to be fenced and cross-fenced cause we got horses.

Miniature horses are a popular ESA!

That horse has left the barn.

Sounds like you may be that rare thoroughbred.

I'm running a business here, not a charity' kinda puts the cart before the horse. 

Lived on the property in an Airstream trailer during this time with a horse and dog and put in a couple fences and then raised a couple pigs.I was very young at the time and didn't make squat while living in the mountains and canned my own food, etc.You might be able to do something similar in today's world, but I'm here to tell you it was rough.