Having an emotional support animal is very helpful for a lot of people’s mental health. It’s a source of unconditional love, goofy antics, and cuddles that doesn’t care about how much money you make, where you’re from, or what you look like.
A lot of people rely on emotional support animals, or just pets in general, to help keep them mentally afloat, but let’s not forget the reason a lot of people have emotional support animals is because they are in fact mentally struggling.
Having an emotional support animal means that there is a certain amount of energy you’re going to have to devote to your animal every day so they can live healthy and happy lives, and in a lot of ways that’s good because it gives people a certain amount of accountability that they need to show up for every single day.
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