HR take on snakes as a service and emotional support animal

[RamMac]

I think all these comfort and emotional support crap is comedy. I had a service dog and I think that someone in a wheelchair would benefit more from him so he is back with the trainers.

All this I need my dog in the Wal-Mart cart with me cause I have anxiety. GTFO of here.

ESA is a scam for people who have bullcrap issues. That's why the ADA doesn't recognize them. If you have real issues than you would get a service dog trained for you.

Tell me what does your snake in a backpack do for you emotionally. What a crock. Does it crawl out and alert you to cues of your anxiety?

If your animal doesn't meet the 3 question criteria set by the ADA then you have a PET. This goes for all of these fuzzy dogs in walmart and all of these compassion support pets...

I agree with you, and I'm saying this as someone with severe service related anxiety and depression. I love my snakes but I don't see how they would bring any sort of comfort in a public area (my biggest trigger). Even my dogs do very little to calm my symptoms and they are very keen to detecting emotions. Service dogs are a completely different story, an animal that is helping you with a physical task is very different than one providing you your subjective safe space. I also noticed someone accused you of finding people with emotional suffering funny. Virtue signaling at it's finest. I didn't see it that way at all.