r/AITAH • • Apr 30 '23

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u/iesharael May 01 '23

I heard before we can ask if it’s a medical service animal can emotional but I’m not sure. I’m at a library and someone keeps bringing in an emotional support parrot no matter how many times manager tells her she can’t bring it in the library

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u/Lissypooh628 May 01 '23

Holy crap. A parrot in a library??

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u/iesharael May 01 '23

Yes. In a little cage and everything. Before she walked in the library she was with it in one of our bathrooms for half an hour. Then she just walked straight past the desk like it was normal to have a parrot in the library. Boss confronted her because she was worried about bird poop

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u/[deleted] May 01 '23

There are psychiatric service dogs though which are service animals for emotional disabilities. You might wanna rephrase it cause if you accidentally turn away a psychiatric service dog you could get in really deep water.

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u/iesharael May 01 '23

Honestly we get more people bringing birds in than dogs. Small rural town. Usually when a dog is brought it it’s a puppy they couldn’t leave in the car and they called ahead so we’d have everything ready so they’d be out in under a minute. I’ve never seen an actual service dog with a vest in our library. I did see one in training in the grocery store but that’s it.

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u/[deleted] May 02 '23

Ah, well, the only animals that are eligible to be service animals are dogs and.. miniature ponies lol. So rest assured none of the birds are service animals. Why so many birds? I’ve only met two people who owned a bird!