Posted on 01/30/2018 10:06:41 AM PST by markomalley
Birds of a feather may flock together, but United Airlines recently shot down one travelers request to bring her emotional support peacock on a flight departing Newark Liberty International Airport.
Live and Let Fly reported earlier this week that even though the unidentified woman claimed that she had a second ticket for the peacock, the airline denied her request.
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They’re big, smelly and loud. And they can peck aggressively if teed off.
Those things crap like Rottweilers...
I think I should be able to bring an emotional support woman on a plane at no extra cost.
I think you just shattered all my illusions about peacocks. Let’s not talk about girls.
I am deeply offended and triggered by the airlines assumption to the avions gender and species identity, perhaps the fowl prefers to be recognised as a pehen or xehen, did anybody bother to ask? This poor gender fluid creature diserves the same rights as everyone else but also is entitled to extra rights. What kind of world do we live in if we cannot afford the same basic human rights to a bird?
Unfortunately that effed up logic is what we are facing, God help us.
They do not want their animal to fly in a crate in the bottom of the plane. A “support” animal gets to fly with them in the main cabin.
This was originally for seeing eye dogs for blind people. It is being abused by people like this that do not want to pay $300+ to have the pet spend the flight in a crate.
When you ship a dog you have to take it to the cargo terminal. It has to get there long before the flight leaves. The cargo hold is also not air conditioned. Therefore, if it is over 90 degrees they will not let your dog fly. Your dog also has to have a health certificate issued by a vet within a few days of the flight. My wife has shipped dogs as far away as Thailand.
I think she was just looking for trouble.
Captain’s decision always, and I’m certain the company would agree.
Unfair! I demand my Constitutional Right (it’s in there, somewhere, in invisible ink, under Penumbras, or Emanations) to have my beloved emotional support cobra in my lap with me at all times anywhere I go!
“Now imagine that sound in the airplane cabin......................”
The next sound would be the snapping of avian vertebrae.
LOL!.............
Did you want the chicken or the fish?
Peacock...............
The airline won’t let me bring my service animal on board either ... it’s a Mohave Green (Rattlesnake)
Well, I don’t have a pea on me.
But if you reach under my lap blanket here...
This is my emotional support gecko. Oooops!!! Where’d he go?!?!??!?!
I have been laughing so much over this feels great
i hate pets anywhere but petsmart and petco. I have 3 dogs/2 cats and they stay home when i go to the store.
People are crazy and demanding.
Legally these emotional support animals ARE allowed in
apartments/condos that don’t allow pets-—and when traveling.
It’s absolute madness.
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A guy I know used to raise them. He says they can be mean as hell........
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Only during breeding season.
I had a peacock show one day, and he never left. He was quiet and docile for nine months out of the year, and the other three months he was loud and aggressive.
Damn I hate United. Those SOB’s denied boarding my guide/support Hyena. The Hyena took it well though. Laughed through it all as the ticket agent refused to issue a boarding pass for Chuckles.
Boarding now Grizzly Adams and his emotional support bear.
We had peacocks as a kid, loud dirty birds. Can’t imagine traveling with one.
I do know a family with an emotional support duck...They flew with “Snowfake” out to Califonisto appear on Steve Harvey’s “Little Big shot”
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