Zhat is not my dog ...
Posted on 02/23/2018 9:52:23 AM PST by Gamecock
A dog injured a child onboard a Southwest Airlines flight, the latest incident in the controversy over allowing emotional-support animals on planes.
It happened Wednesday night while passengers were boarding a Southwest flight from Phoenix to Portland, Ore. A spokesman for the airline said the dog’s teeth scraped the girl’s forehead as she approached the animal, causing a minor injury.
Southwest said paramedics examined the girl, who was later cleared to continue on the flight. The dog and its owner remained in Phoenix while the plane left about 20 minutes behind schedule. Neither the girl nor the dog’s handler was named.
Southwest allows trained emotional-support animals to travel on domestic and international flights as long as their handlers provide health certificates, permits and vaccinations required by the “country, state or territory from and/or to which the animal is being transported.”
[United changed its policy for emotional-support animals. That peacock still can’t board.]
The incident comes as two major airlines have changed their policies in response to an uptick in the number of reports involving animals on commercial flights.
Delta Air Lines said in January that it is requiring advance documentation, such as proof of health or vaccinations and signed paperwork confirming that the animals can behave. The new requirements are in response to an 84 percent increase in incidents since 2016, from urinating or defecating, to barking or growling, to mauling a passenger whose face needed 28 stitches. Delta said it carries nearly 250,000 service or support animals each year.
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Screw that. Give the human an O2 tank and a parka, and let them get their emotional support down in the cargo hold with the dog.
Those are a drop in the bucket, and are basically the same as “service animals” for the disabled.
Most of the ones out there nowadays are just regular pets with a vest someone bought off the internet slapped on them.
That is the intention and that is the effect.
I'm not sure "most" is correct, maybe, but I acknowledged in my post that a percentage are probably just that.
[Emotional support animal owners are going to give handicapped space parkers a run for their money.]
Especially the idiots that try to squeeze in the blue lined area between spaces. (grin).
My local Walmart is starting to have a dog fight about every fifth time I’m in there. The lawsuits will be soon to follow.
Zhat is not my dog ...
Can I fly with my emotional support gun? When I’m carrying it, I do not feel depressed nor do I cower in fear of other people in close proximity. I was personally trained with it and it has a biometric trigger which means I am the only one it obeys. Please?
“What the hell does an “Emotional Support” dog do?”
As far as I can tell, “emotional support” animals are what are usually called “pets”.
Real support/service dogs (is there such a thing as a service cat or something other than a dog?) have usually had training and been evaluated for disposition and properly house broken.
“I can’t help but think having to handle an animal while traveling, especially on a plane, would do nothing but add stress.”
That’s probably because you’re a normal, responsible person who doesn’t expect the world to take care of you. You’d probably be worried about getting your animal out to some grass or something so they could do your business. A lot of these people with “support” animals just seem to let them do their business wherever they want and let others clean up after them. Life’s easy and stress-free when you don’t worry about anything and let other people do all the work.
Some say that emotional support animals are BS. But that accepts the premise of the owners’ argument. I say, if people are so emotionally disturbed they have to have an animal with them to fly, they should not be allowed on an airplane. These people themselves are too dangerous, not just their untrained animals.
I have two small dogs that crate easily. It would be cheaper for me to buy a seat for their crate then to board them for a couple days. I know someone that got their pit bull certified to avoid housing discrimination laws against pit bulls. I don’t see an easy solution to this problem because some people honestly need some of these animals. When you board your pets they usually come home sick and covered with fleas. I hired people to house sit my pets when I travel.
AWWWW!!
It’s GAMERA!!
Can I bring my emotional support Hippopotamus on the plane?
They'll charge you extra for his trunk.
Me and a buddy were having lunch at a local restaurant and there is a gal with a service/emotional support dog there. She gets up to go to the bathroom with the dog. I pondered aloud as to what she needed the dog for. He said “look lassie we are out of toilet paper” ... I spit most of my beer out.
When I was about 7 the neighbor’s dauchson (sp?) Bit my left cheek in two. Luckily they had a plastic surgeon on call & he did a miraculous job.I understand her fear, but I strangely have zero fear of dogs. It’s a traumatic event for a kid.
I have an emotional support Trouser Snake. Sometimes I just need to hold it.
And... by the way...
W...T...F is an “Emotional Support Dog”???
And what f***ing idiot dreamed up THIS latest buffoonery (not that I have anything against dogs... I LOVE dogs... can’t stand buffoons, though...)
Wonder if they would allow an emotional support alligator.
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