Retirement Home Has ‘Emotional Support Skunk’ and the Internet Is Obsessed [Video]

When you think of a skunk, the first thing that springs to mind is the smell—and not its suitability as an emotional support animal.

However, a viral Reddit post shared by user CoffeeMilkLvr suggests that skunks have a bad reputation and actually have a softer side. In fact, they can be trained as emotional support animals (ESA).

An October 7 post, captioned “My grandfather’s retirement home has an emotional support skunk that comes in,” shows an adorable image of a skunk and has garnered 98,000 upvotes. The Redditor told Newsweek the skunk, called Meadow, is one of many animals that visits the retirement home in the Philadelphia suburbs.

Kristen Jacobsen, a licensed clinical professional counselor, spoke to Newsweek about the unconventional ESA, noting that it can offer the same benefits typically associated with more common ESAs like dogs and cats.

Chicago-based Jacobsen …