More and more you see people bringing their pets everywhere they go. They’re claiming some of the most outrageous creatures as “emotional support” animals — but are they really? How many people do you think are just abusing the system because they either don’t want to board their pets or they don’t want to leave them at home?

Seriously, there’s no way an iguana is calming anyone’s emotions.

Prescott Valley, AZ 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 just to prove his point.

Guess what? It worked.

“A lot of people thought it was hilarious and a lot of people were getting upset,” Keller 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.

Keller was inspired to go through with the registration after seeing a service dog that was obviously untrained.

He said, “I could very easily tell that it was not a service animal because it was pulling the owner to the parking lot.” Adding, “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.

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