No offense meant : )
But I do recall about 2 years ago, going to my niece’s step son’s HS graduation and this woman stat down next to me had a Chihuahua with one of those service animal vests on that anyone can buy on-line. The dog was yappy and disruptive, at one point was clawing at my arm and when I shot her a dirty look and asked, actually told her to move, she told me “This is my service animal and I don’t have to do anything of the sort”.
Last year I was in a Lowes and the man had some sort of mutt, again with the phony service animal vest and was on one of those long retractable leashes, and the dog was running up to people jumping on them, at one point knocked down a little kid and then lifted his leg and pissed all over some merchandise. The man paid no attention what so ever.
I have no problem with legitimate service dogs, like I said, trained seeing eye dogs or dogs that are trained to help someone in a wheel chair such as a paraplegic, but this sort of abuse makes it difficult for those with legitimate service dogs.
And I’m sorry, but no one needs an “emotional support animal” and even if they think they do, they certainly shouldn’t be gaming the system to take their pets with them everywhere. And yes, that includes people with PTSD. Sure an animal may be therapeutic or comforting in such cases but way too many times they are not specially trained or even properly trained or socialized as a pet.
If you can’t leave the house or fly on an airplane without your hamster, you need psychiatric help.
Airline travel has become little more than cattle cars for the crazy and belligerent!