Pets are an essential part of the family.
People have risked their lives to save them because they provide vital emotional support in dealing with trauma from death, occupation, war, and the experience of becoming a refugee.
Pets have played a crucial role in supporting their well-being, helping them cope through all the loss they have endured—family, friends, schools, relationships, and homeland
It is too cruel for the Irish government to expect them to part with the one thing that has helped them through such trauma