Service animal is a STRICT legal definition and it shall remain strict for a very good reason and it's because your desire to bring along a little guy that makes your anxiety better does not trump people with allergies, phobias, or hygienic needs of a place that doesn't allow animals.
Additionally, the only miniature(!) (as small as a dog!) horses that can be a service animals are seeing eye horses for the blind and horses that pull wheelchairs. That's it! Horses are not allowed to be psychiatric service animals, allergy alert animals, diabetes alert animals, seizure alert animals, cardiac alert animals. All of those things can only be fulfilled by a DOG, and you know why? Because a dog is the ONLY type of animal that can be
1) trained to obey commands 100% without fail
2) trained to completely ignore other animals, people, and obstacles and be focused 100% on their handler 100% of the time they've on duty
3) work consistently and perform tasks without treats or reinforcement (which are still used, but it's important for them to NOT expect a reward)
4) be outside, in cars, planes, other moving vehicles, inside unfamiliar buildings, at any time, with any amount of noise and distractions, and still fulfill requirements 1 and 2
5) not vocalize unless alerting in a specific way
And that's just the basics. Go on, try to make your cat do all three, in ADDITION to the tasks they require, and often can't perform (alerting, guiding, etc). I dare you. The absolute majority of service animals are trained by a facility from birth for a very good reason, and that is because a service animal is a hyper specific, highly demanding JOB (and dogs with such a job typically retire at around 6-8 years because it is INCREDIBLY taxing on their physical and mental health).
Your rabbits or cats helping you and alerting you at home is cute and all and they will qualify as ESA (because ESA are just any animal and has absolutely no other rights than you can't be allowed to deny housing for having it), but unless you use them as a medical device being deprived of which significantly deprived you of ability or puts you in danger, and unless they're trained to fullfil those 5 minimal requirements and also fullfil other tasks depending on your disability, they aren't a service animal. And no other animal but a dog (and often a specific breed of dog because temperamental differences between breeds exist, and even more often those dogs come from specific LINES of service dogs) can be trained to reliably act as a service animal in a large scale.
So no, cats can't be service animals. I had plenty of smart as shit cats, cats are wonderful, but they can't be service animals. Nor should they be.
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