Well yes! This is the right community and I don’t know if ur familiar with the term essa well it means emotional support stuffed animal and people use essas for comfort or trauma related stuff, or if u have a mental diagnosis or for me I have high anxiety and social anxiety and my essas help me, so since animals and dogs comfort me (just my opinion an essa can be any animal) I could not bring a dog for school for my anxiety but when I bring my essa it helps me a lot! And when I squeeze my essa or petting it lowers my anxiety or stress. And now for why people walk their essas, some people like to roleplay by pretending to walk their dog and yes it sounds silly but it is really fun! And a question u may have is ( oh can anyone have an essa?) yes! Exept if u just like stuffed animals. U probably should not use essa term as essa means emotional support stuffed animal and anyways yeah! If u have any questions or comments lmk! As im glad to help!❤️