“Emotional support dog,” identify, inclusiveness, diversity,
..sounds familiar.
I think part of this madness goes back to George H W Bush and the ADA. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americans_with_Disabilities_Act_of_1990
Going back even further to the “civil rights” laws of the 1960s. In our now liberal country, everything is a slippery slope.
“Ronald Kevin Mundy Jr. of Mills River, N.C., as a military service member with the U.S. Marine Corps who “advised that the dog was issued to him for support.”