Petition · past parliament
Give Emotional Support Animals: Dog: the same rights as Physical Support Animals
Rejected
21 signatures
What the petition asks
We all recognise physical disabilities and why physical disabilities need support dogs.
We would like the Government to recognise the Emotional disabilities and understand why Emotional disabilities need Support dogs too. No discrimination.
We would like the Government to recognise the Emotional disabilities and understand why Emotional disabilities need Support dogs too. No discrimination.
Research shows animals regulate a persons internal emotional system. Studies show Emotional support from dogs enables people to be calmed, able to manage emotions, to move forward in tasks they previously could not do.
Adults & Children work with my Emotional Support Dogs constantly proved successful. Traumatised Children talked, Manic Children are calmed. Dissociative Adults don't dissociate, they stay present. The dog is representative of a neutral safe person.
No Emotional discrimination.
Adults & Children work with my Emotional Support Dogs constantly proved successful. Traumatised Children talked, Manic Children are calmed. Dissociative Adults don't dissociate, they stay present. The dog is representative of a neutral safe person.
No Emotional discrimination.
Why it was rejected
There was already a petition about this issue. Duplicates are rejected so signatures collect in one place.
Timeline
| 4 Nov 2018 | Petition opened for signatures |
| 14 Nov 2018 | Rejected by the Petitions Committee |
Key facts
Signatures
21
Status
Rejected
Rejected
14 Nov 2018
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Source: the official petition page. Last checked 15 Jul 2026.