Posted on 08/16/2018 9:31:06 AM PDT by upchuck
Come September 17, people will be able to carry miniature horses onboard Southwest flights as trained service animals, according to airline officials.
Officials announced the policy change, via a statement on its website on Tuesday. In the statement, officials name miniature horses, along with dogs and cats, as some of the most common service animals that will be accepted onboard. Passengers, however, will need to be able to provide credible verbal assurance that the animal is a trained service animal.
In addition, the company announced other changes, such as formally accepting Psychiatric Support Animals (PSAs) as trained service animals, after accepting them informally as such in the past, and will also limit each passenger to one Emotional Support Animal.
Passengers with an ESA will, according to the statement, still need to present a complete, current letter from a medical doctor or licensed mental health professional on the day of departure.
Wonder how the horses' 'personal needs' are handled?
Feel sorry for pax on a flight with a horse.
Here’s your soda and a road apple. You’re welcome.
Chickens, pigs, cattle, horses... Gee, like a 3rd world bus. How nice...
This is INSANE!!!!!!!!! !
When did this fiasco start?...and who started it?
Gee, there’s hope now that they’ll approve my pet sloth.
Sir Oinksalot. Even went to the trouble giving him goggles.
What about a Gorilla?..................
The people who made this decision are a horses rear....
George H. W. Bush..............The ADA...........
How about alligators?
Like in the Valley of Gwangi?
I’m taking my emotional support honey badger on my next flight.
I don’t see what the problem is, Ma’am.
He is small... for a Clydesdale!
The gorillas are all down in baggage handling abusing the American Tourister luggage.
are they same as ponies??
JERRY: Horses? They’re like big riding dogs.
ELAINE: What about ponies? What kind of abnormal animal is that? And those kids who had their own ponies...
JERRY: I know, I hated those kids. In fact, I hate anyone that ever had a pony when they were growing up.
MANYA: (angry) I had a pony.
(The room goes dead quiet.)
JERRY: Well, I didn’t uh really mean a pony, per se...
MANYA: When I was a little girl in Poland, we all had ponies. My sister had pony, my cousin had pony... So, what’s wrong with that?
JERRY: Nothing. Nothing at all. I was just merely expressing...
HELEN: Should we have coffee? Who’s having coffee?
MANYA: He was a beautiful pony! And I loved him.
JERRY: Well, I’m sure you did. Who wouldn’t love a pony? Who wouldn’t love a person that had a pony?
MANYA: You! You said so!
JERRY: No, see, we didn’t have ponies. I’m sure at that time in Poland, they were very common. They were probably like compact cars..
MANYA: That’s it! I had enough!
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