What finally helped was an emotional support animal in the form of an emu, the large flightless bird, prescribed to him by a local psychotherapist, he says. Olenik raised the bird from a tiny ...

“The ground’s too hot, I don’t want you walking on the ground,” McWilliams said, scooping the bird ... s my emotional support animal.” She’d left her official red vest at home, but ...

If he wins the election, he said, one of his main priorities would be clarifying laws concerning emotional support animals like Nimbus. “She rescued me,” he said. “All I needed was a bird.

Nicholas Olenik says he’d never experienced grief and depression until his brother and father died in the span of less than two years. “It was just a little much. I never felt that low before ...

But Olenik's therapist-signed letter declaring Nimbus an emotional support emu helped him establish that the bird was a permissible pet under the city's zoning code. "I read the law, and I already ...

An Emotional ... support is a function of their presence and interaction with the person with a disability. ESAs are not pets, but they typically are animals commonly kept in households as pets. An ...

Similarly, the presence of a harness or vest ... may not be sufficient evidence that the animal is, in fact, a legitimate service animal." In cases of emotional support animals, the airlines can ...

She has a letter from the vet saying it's an emotional support animal. There was never a question as to what type of bird my mother was bringing.' On Wednesday, the Fraterrigo's told the local ...

Mallory Bennhoff petting her emotional support dog Finn ... While Turgeon has found that most people aren’t allergic to her bird, she said other problems can slow down the process of getting ...