Don't touch my hedgehog....

[JimmyBob]

George nails it:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...91602206fb7_story.html?utm_term=.7219f67c7009

 

[OKSTATE1]

Pussies

 

[imprimis]

Some person the other day who claims a fear of dogs was given permission to have a horse as their emotional support animal. Wonder how that will work when this person decides to fly again.

This isn't new. A&M has been using sheep and goats for decades. Even more after the shuttering of The Chicken Ranch in LaGrange.

 

[JimmyBob]

Some person the other day who claims a fear of dogs was given permission to have a horse as their emotional support animal. Wonder how that will work when this person decides to fly again.

This isn't new. A&M has been using sheep and goats for decades. Even more after the shuttering of The Chicken Ranch in LaGrange.

And gawd only knows what they do with the dead collies they worship!

 

[HoustonHammer]

It's worse than I thought. I gave up after the first 10-15 comments, but they were all trashing the article and talking about how important these ridiculous emotional support animals have become. We're doomed.

 

[Medic007]

George nails it:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...91602206fb7_story.html?utm_term=.7219f67c7009

This topic is hilarious. Animals, especially dogs, have long been used to assist folks with disabilities. The crossover into "emotional support" is a much more recent phenomenon. Of course the range of "emotional support" animals is much different than actual assistance animals because naturally peacocks, snakes, and hedgehogs can't actually assist a person physically like a dog can.

My youngest daughter (13, my avatar picture and a diabolical smartass) has a hedgehog. His name is Harley. She likes to take Harley out with us to run errands. Harley goes to Target, Wal-Mart, Home Depot, Orange Leaf, etc. She likes to bring him with us because she says Harley enjoys the adventure and she knows she can get away with it. Harley is no more useful at providing her emotional support than her socks are, and she knows that.

We've only been asked about why she had him in a public place once, and her response was magical. She said "He's here with me to support my emotional stability. I don't know what bad stuff might come into my mind if I didn't have him here." All I could do was shrug my shoulders and smile.

People are so afraid of offending someone these days that simple logic has become extinct.

 

[aix_xpert]

People are so afraid of offending someone these days that simple logic has become extinct.

Truer words were never spoken (or written in this case).

 

[trapped_in_tx]

We're doomed.

@AC2017 and I agree.

 

[AC_Exotic]

This topic is hilarious. Animals, especially dogs, have long been used to assist folks with disabilities. The crossover into "emotional support" is a much more recent phenomenon. Of course the range of "emotional support" animals is much different than actual assistance animals because naturally peacocks, snakes, and hedgehogs can't actually assist a person physically like a dog can.

My youngest daughter (13, my avatar picture and a diabolical smartass) has a hedgehog. His name is Harley. She likes to take Harley out with us to run errands. Harley goes to Target, Wal-Mart, Home Depot, Orange Leaf, etc. She likes to bring him with us because she says Harley enjoys the adventure and she knows she can get away with it. Harley is no more useful at providing her emotional support than her socks are, and she knows that.

We've only been asked about why she had him in a public place once, and her response was magical. She said "He's here with me to support my emotional stability. I don't know what bad stuff might come into my mind if I didn't have him here." All I could do was shrug my shoulders and smile.

People are so afraid of offending someone these days that simple logic has become extinct.

They have puppy rooms at universities to provide comfort for students.

We live in the days of the softest most fragile people in the history of humanity.

 

[Ostatedchi]

We are so advanced that we are devolving.

 

[trapped_in_tx]

We are so advanced that we are devolving.

There's more truth in this than one might think.

 

[trapped_in_tx]

They have puppy rooms at universities to provide comfort for students.

We live in the days of the softest most fragile people in the history of humanity.

Not that I don't believe you, because after all, I'm a mix of realist and cynic, but you have any linkage to support that?

As previously mentioned, I'm lazy and I'm not interested in needlessly benefiting @davidallen's employer.

 

[AC_Exotic]

Not that I don't believe you, because after all, I'm a mix of realist and cynic, but you have any linkage to support that?

As previously mentioned, I'm lazy and I'm not interested in needlessly benefiting @davidallen's employer.

http://dogtime.com/trending/16765-puppy-room-to-help-stressed-out-college-students

 

[trapped_in_tx]

http://dogtime.com/trending/16765-puppy-room-to-help-stressed-out-college-students

 

[JimmyBob]

http://dogtime.com/trending/16765-puppy-room-to-help-stressed-out-college-students

If anyone needs a puppy-room to cope; they'd better get their snowflake ass back to mommy's basement and opioid themselves to whereTF, 'cause the real world awaits 'em.