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    Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 30 Jan 2018
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    Okay Emotional Support Peacock (henceforth ESP) is almost certainly a publicity stunt and a pretty good one. I suspect the only animal which can meaningfully play that role is a dog. Not even cats or parrots. Larger mammals could but would be inconvenient.

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      2. Dan Hon‏ @hondanhon 30 Jan 2018
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        Humans?

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      3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 30 Jan 2018
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        Humans are worse than peacocks for Emotional Support

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      2. Bushra Farooqui  🎄 🌉‏ @startuployalist 30 Jan 2018
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        Technically, anything warm and with weight that rests upon the human body, can be a form of emotional support. They have weighted blankets for reducing anxiety, for example.

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      3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 30 Jan 2018
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        Presumably animals add an emotional attachment angle otherwise they’d just prescribe teddy bears and blankets. Peacocks afaik, add no features beyond blankets and are probably worse than blankets. Unlike dogs.

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      1. Chenoe Hart‏ @chenoehart 30 Jan 2018
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        That the peacock "...belongs to a Bushwick-based artist" is all I needed to read. (From this article after a quick search: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/59w7nq/the-support-peacock-that-couldnt-get-on-a-flight-has-a-fire-instagram-vgtrn …)

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      2. Jonathan Fernandez‏ @Forgehammer 30 Jan 2018
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        This is serious: in California miniature horses can be trained as support animals and thus are allowed in businesses etc. i admit I’ve never seen it, but i’ve only had 12 business for 30 years, there’s still time

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      3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 30 Jan 2018
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        Yeah I’ve heard of this

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      1. Jonathan Fernandez‏ @Forgehammer 30 Jan 2018
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        Someday a manager will call me and say “dude is here with his horse and says he gets to shop with it” and I’ll be like “all righty” and level up

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      1. MetaJess‏ @ssica3003 31 Jan 2018
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        I would love to have an emotional support elephant

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      1. Lawrence of Dystopia‏ @laprice 31 Jan 2018
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        My emotional support swarm of locusts is necessary; I cannot live life unless my team of grasshoppers is laying waste to the land around me.

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