With the listing being so new still, would you just be patient and move on from them to the next prospects or is a bird in hand better than 2 in the bush, as none of the other prospects have returned applications.Thank you in advance for any wisdom!!

I am not sure I can share the template but basically it just states name of the patient, type of animal required including breed.

It is hard to be patient though sometimes!  

Be patient and enjoy the process.

It is not a quick fix to make a tenant miserable but with patients and a firm commitment it does work.

Seeing so much interest should make it easy for you to be patient.

Just make sure you do it right.If faced with a request for a reasonable accommodation for a companion or service animal (they're different) I'd have a form that I'd give them, with the definition of disability, and the basic law that the need for the animal must be related to their disability and/or trained to perform a particular task (service animals), and have them give it to their primary care provider (doctor) and have them fax it to me from their office after they've completed it, verifying that this patient meets the definition and has a related need.  

Otherwise every person could just claim every animal is a "companion", but I'm sure they are not.There are problems with online "doctors" who claim to give prescriptions or recommendations for companion animals to whoever pays for one, however, these are mostly scams, and I don't think landlords actually are required to accept their fake "prescriptions" if they don't actually have a proven doctor/patient relationship.

Yes but unless you want to see your name splashed all over the local news as the bad landlord who kicked out a dying patient, review number 4.Gail

I think you have to be patient and wait for an appropriate tenant.