Emotional support animals

[AKcharger]

This is about emotional support animals NOT  see-eye dogs or animals that sense seizures...

[Troy]

Are they classified as "service" animals? I know a girl who has panic attacks and her dog can be a huge help. Whether I think it's necessary isn't really my call. I do think that service animals should follow all the rules that give them special treatment (ie. don't drag your dog along when it isn't necessary just because you can).

Troy

[bill440rt]

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULlbNznGUE4

[68X426]

Here in the PRK we got people with parrots on their heads for emotional support, and snakes wrapped around their shoulders for emotional support.  Dogs in purses, rabbits in baby carriages, hamsters in holsters, turtles in coat pockets.  We see it all.

So it's impossible to take any of this seriously.  Frankly it's bullshit 99% of the time.  Sorry that for the 1% that it can help that the druggies and lunatics and the do-gooders have won out and claim disabilities.

Again this is the PRK.  Maybe in the real world the percentage is much higher of those who benefit and are legit, but not here.  Not legit.

Me, I laugh hard at the scenes in Groundhog Day [edit: the movie is What About Bob - Lisa got it right] when Bill Murray carries around a fish in a bag of water to help him cope with everyday life.  

[68X426]

You know what, this topic got me fired up as I talked about it.

To get real serious for a moment: we as a society (well, a large part of it, not everyone) is shitting on our veterans, AGAIN.  Just like the last time around, our vets are getting a bad deal, not just on the everyday stuff but on the emotional support.

And then I see the parrot people and the snake people.  They are "disabled", becoming a protected sub-group with rights and privileges, and sympathy.

Meanwhile our vets get little or none of that emotional support.  They get a wheelchair, or new limbs.  And not enough of the emotional support.  Irony is painful - who is the party between these two groups who needs support?

There it is.  Just calling it like it is.  I'll stop with the rant.

Where's my pussy cat?



 

[twodko]

Total BULLS**T!

Everything 68x426 said. Unless it's a service dog, eat it, stuff it or forget it.

Just sayin'

[Ranger Max]

My animals help me forget this.

[mrsskip68]

Me, I laugh hard at the scenes in Groundhog Day when Bill Murray carries around a fish in a bag of water to help him cope with everyday life. 

That  movie was "What About Bob." Just a fyi!

[68X426]

Mrs S, where you been? 

Yeah, that's what I said, Bill Murray in What About Bob.


I got no memory.

[AKcharger]

Well my  is medical animals are understandable, but "emotional support" is a stretch. I mean I love my cat, I'd love to take that ill guy everywhere but I don't. Is it a case of these people just love their animals and want to save on doggie day care when they take trips or these people just could not function in life without them?

And of course if they're that emotionally fragile they need, like 68 said a snake, maybe they should be more concerned with solving their issues than going on vacation

[RallyeMike]

There are probably a few people who this really helps, but I'd also bet that most all could get by without. That being said, as long as it isn't a hygiene or safety issue, I don't see it as hurting anyone else. Just like with disabled parking permits, most of the people who have them don't absolutely need them, and a good percentage don't really need them at all. These people leave a bad impression in our minds for the very select few who actually do receive a real benefit from it.