text: While the long-term solution of better defining what constitutes a “support animal” may very well rest with new Federal regulation (and we all know how loooong that will be!), more immediate relief is available for associations that institute a well thought out set of rules regulating animal behavior. For, while it may be “impossible” to completely restrict such exceptions, it IS possible to regulate the behaviors, such as noise, messes, damage to people or property, etc. that animals sometimes cause.