Man registers a bee hive as an emotional support animal

[Catherine]

No he doesn't see his bee hive as an emotional support animal. He did it to prove a point. It is too easy to register any animal as an emotional support animal. There is a lack of oversight and standards. All you did is fill our a form on a web site. So out there right now are many animals that people are calling emotional support animals. They get all the benefits and rights of a trained service dog, but they are just someone's pet. Many times they are badly trained pets.

https://globalnews.ca/news/6282569/bee-e...rt-animal/

Registering the bees was funny is some ways, bit it is also worrying. It should not have been possible to register them.
All these untrained pets out there claiming service dog status, puts at risk the rights of real service dogs.

Service dogs are trained and tested before they ever work with someone with special needs. Even as puppies they are fostered with people who prepare them for a life of service. When they are older they are retired and live out their lives in peace. These are working dogs and they deserve our respect and any special rights that we can give them.

Bratty untrained pets that have somehow gotten certified are not the same thing. We might feel that a pet is an emotional support and in many ways they are. That does not make them a therapy pet. If nothing is done to regulate this situation then actual service dogs are going to suffer the backlash against this whole "service animal" craze. I see dogs in service dog vests that clearly have no special training. They are not even well trained as an ordinary pet. I don't know how this can be regulated, but something has to be done.