( Jeff McIntosh / THE CANADIAN PRESS )“When I’m holding them, I’m feeling, I’m smelling, I’m hearing,” she says. “What calms me down is all of those sensory aspects of being with them.” Pike is working to formally register her “girls” as livestock emotional support animals under a new city program. “That’s incredibly stressful on top of my already crazy life that involves a lot of anxiety.” Read more: Calgary city council approves livestock as emotional support animals Pike urged the city to amend its pet bylaw to allow animals normally found on farms into urban homes for mental-health purposes. An exception there was made for a family with a pot-bellied pig. In 2014, Trevor Dahl and his family convinced Strathmore’s town council to allow Chuckles, a pot-bellied pig, into their home.

Source: thestar May 05, 2019 14:15 UTC