[upchuck]

Personally I consider this to be complete bullsh!t and just another way of abusing the system.

From the link mentioned in reply #14:

Service animals are defined as dogs that are individually trained to do work or perform tasks for people with disabilities. Examples of such work or tasks include guiding people who are blind, alerting people who are deaf, pulling a wheelchair, alerting and protecting a person who is having a seizure, reminding a person with mental illness to take prescribed medications, calming a person with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) during an anxiety attack, or performing other duties. Service animals are working animals, not pets. The work or task a dog has been trained to provide must be directly related to the person’s disability. Dogs whose sole function is to provide comfort or emotional support do not qualify as service animals under the ADA.

Note that only dogs can be service animals. The lady w/ the pot bellied pig should have been thrown off the plane.

Happy to see that last sentence in the regulation.

[from occupied ga]

The work or task a dog has been trained to provide must be directly related to the person’s disability. Dogs whose sole function is to provide comfort or emotional support do not qualify as service animals under the ADA.

good to know, but abused anyway. I was at an outdoor event in Palm Beach County where there was a sign service animals only. I saw one woman get out of her car (she was driving) get her dog, clip a harness on it with a handle like a blind person would have and proceed into the event.