Good.
This emotional support animal stuff is nonsense.
I’m too lazy to open the article and though I’m afraid to ask, I gots to know!
WTH is an emotional support animal?
The emotional support dog situation is getting way out of control. People can fraudulently obtain a prescription from a PA or physicians’ secretary for an emotional support animal and any animal, whether trained or not, can be used. People at check in desks at airlines see this on a daily basis.
The kind of people who need an animal with them at all times for emotional support are too dangerously unstable to be allowed on airplanes. Whatever level of crazy you have to be at to need an “emotional support animal”, it’s beyond the level of crazy acceptable for public safety.
This emotional support animal stuff is nonsense.
I agree. Some years ago, like up through the mid 90’s, one had to have a valor award, a purple heart, or at least a CIB or Navy/Marine Corps combat action ribbon to even be considered for PTSD. Now I am not saying helicopter pilots and crew did not see serious action as did others. My point is we have men and women who were never even in a combat zone drawing VA disability for PTSD. A retired Major or LTC who was MI in Berlin draws VA disability as he fears the KGB will kill him. This PTSD has gone whacko. Dogs and cats make great pals. They do not belong on planes or in public unless to help the blind.
I agree. At home I understand, but out everywhere is ridiculous.
At a museum where I volunteer which is part of the National Archives, pets are not allowed. However a few months ago, a woman was going through the galleries with two pit bulls that were supposedly "service dogs." The management told us that we could do nothing but let her go through. She did so without incident, but I questioned the policy of allowing a dog of an unstable breed into the museum despite its status as a "service dog."
Before I retired from my Pentagon job (2013), I went to a building meeting and the topic of emotional dogs came up. There for years had been a rule in place that the only dogs allowed on the grounds (within the structure) would be guard dogs and seeing-eye dogs. At some point after 2005, they rewrote the regulation and allowed emotional dogs (you had to apply for the waiver to enter).
So at some point, there was a dog-on-dog fight (two emotional dogs in conflict, if you can imagine this). So the management of the building sat and down to review this. They had roughly forty people who were bringing in their dogs now. This was on a upward trend. Management then kinda admitted....the building, the lengthy hallways, and the limited grounds....just weren’t made for a massive number of dogs.
All of this was leading to a point where they’d have to make the rules more stringent, and make this support animal business more regulatory.
Exactly. A bunch of snowflakes and bedwetters who can't face the stress of travelling without their four-legged companion. Grow the hell up.
My sister has allergies to pet dander. I have a much milder case of it. These selfish pet owners just make me sick (sometimes literally). Leave your smelly dogs and cats at home where they belong!
It might keep a Muzzie from sitting next to you.
ML/NJ