Originally Posted by
Grand58742
Perhaps the thread title was worded incorrectly? The article leans towards it being an emotional support animal rather than a service animal.
Trust me, I deal with this stuff day in and day out at my job. The problem is (with the law) is you are only able to ask two questions:
1. Is this a service animal?
Outside of said mini horse and a dog, the answer will always be no since those are the only two creatures allowed to be service animals. So, no such thing as a service cat or service snake or service turkey, etc.
2. What service does it provide?
Wording has to be accurate on this one since you start getting into HIPAA violations by asking pointed questions about a disability and get your ass sued off. Basically, those with service animals will tell you up front "yes, it is a service animal used as a guide dog" or "used to alert me to medical conditions." So on and so forth.
Basically, blame the airlines for allowing emotional support animals on planes. That's where this starts.
Accepted. Maybe I used the wrong terms. People who have an actual service animal that tells them when blood sugar is low and similar life threatening conditions are exempted and I tried to make that distinction in the OP.
Combat vets or anyone else with legit PTSD, again exempted. But I need my "snuggles" so I feel better about myself?...snuggles should be crated with the checked bags, especially if "snuggles" is a freaking horse.
We used to fly with dogs, he had to buy the largest kennel the airlines would accept so they could fly together and not spazz all the way out and we used to give them something the chill out, I think our vet had us give them dramamine.
Back then it wan't a problem we could watch the baggage handlers loading the dogs on the plane and usually they were social with the dogs. Only had one incident where they had some separation anxiety and if you listened closely you could hear them howling all the way from the baggage compartment even with the engine running.
But when we landed everything was fine. They were back to their retarded happy selves as soon as their kennel was brought into baggage claim and they saw us. Of course we didn't let them out of the kennel until we were OUTSIDE because everyone knows you don't let dogs run around the airport.
It's hard to be a ACLU hating, philosophically Libertarian, socially liberal, fiscally conservative, scientifically grounded, agnostic, porn admiring gun owner who believes in self determination.
Chuck, we miss ya man.
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