Arizona Man Registers Swarm of Bees as Emotional Support Animals

Prescott Valley, Arizona, resident David Keller thinks the application process to register an emotional support animal is too easy — so he tried registering a swarm of bees as his service pet. It worked. “A lot of people thought it was hilarious and a lot of people were getting upset,” David tells CBS affiliate WTRF-TV. He recently went on a website called USAServiceDogRegistration.com and successfully uploaded a random photo of a beehive as a service animal “to bring awareness to the issue that anyone could do this,” he explains. David was inspired to go through with the registration after seeing a service dog that was visibly untrained. “I could very easily tell that it was not a service animal because it was pulling the owner to the parking lot,” says David. “I was thinking that it’s just too easy to get these animals to be service animals.” The website he used to register his swarm is one of many that make the application process for emotional pets too easy, experts say. “They’re very silly. They don’t mean anything. You can go pay for a registry on one of those websites and basically you’re just paying for a piece of paper and to put a name on a list,” service dog trainer Jaymie Cardin tells WTRF. With registration so easy, how an animal acts is a better way to tell if it’s worthy of the title.