Posted on 02/23/2018 9:52:23 AM PST by Gamecock
A dog injured a child onboard a Southwest Airlines flight, the latest incident in the controversy over allowing emotional-support animals on planes.
It happened Wednesday night while passengers were boarding a Southwest flight from Phoenix to Portland, Ore. A spokesman for the airline said the dog’s teeth scraped the girl’s forehead as she approached the animal, causing a minor injury.
Southwest said paramedics examined the girl, who was later cleared to continue on the flight. The dog and its owner remained in Phoenix while the plane left about 20 minutes behind schedule. Neither the girl nor the dog’s handler was named.
Southwest allows trained emotional-support animals to travel on domestic and international flights as long as their handlers provide health certificates, permits and vaccinations required by the “country, state or territory from and/or to which the animal is being transported.”
[United changed its policy for emotional-support animals. That peacock still can’t board.]
The incident comes as two major airlines have changed their policies in response to an uptick in the number of reports involving animals on commercial flights.
Delta Air Lines said in January that it is requiring advance documentation, such as proof of health or vaccinations and signed paperwork confirming that the animals can behave. The new requirements are in response to an 84 percent increase in incidents since 2016, from urinating or defecating, to barking or growling, to mauling a passenger whose face needed 28 stitches. Delta said it carries nearly 250,000 service or support animals each year.
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Heh.
It was probably that same doctor that gave her a “prescription” to get that therapy dog.
Karma.
Professionally trained and registered service animals only.
It's a safety and health issue.
It's time for this to end.
I want an emotional-support leopard!
Its like everything in our atomized, emotive, debt-fed society.
Maximum self-realization on one’s own terms, zero responsibility
During a recent business trip and while at a well-known chain hotel, I was awoken at 5 AM by the constant barking of a dog in the room next door
Too bad there was no emotional support gun near by. s/
That's not true. I know a dog trainer who trains real support animals for the veterans, the handicapped, the blind and even drug sniffing dogs for the police. It a long laborious process. Then there is a two month process of training the dog's new owner how to handle it. I'm not saying every animal that people try to pass off as a support animal is an actual support animal trained like this but some certainly are.
“Emotional support animal owners are going to give handicapped space parkers a run for their money.”
I was the hospital for 2 months. I got a Handicapped” hang tag for my rearview mirror. It’s been useless except at the post office. Everywhere else, the spaces are all full.
If someone needs an emotional support animal to cope with the outside world, maybe they need to be institutionalized.
I always say, our pets would eat us if they could.
I had a miniature dobie hit me in the throat when I was little. Scared the bejeezus out of me but I eventually got over it.
What really irks me are communities that spend tens of thousands of dollars on stupid dog parks........
You mean I need a Doctor’s note to bring my emotional support nest of Hornets on a plane? Outrageous.
My emotional support animal is my wife!!
Just nuts.
Can I bring my Hungry, Hungry Hippos into the Mall with me?
I have them both on a leash.
I swear, America is become more and more like a cartoon.
Hungry, Hungry Hippos - The Movie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJxDz2y59E0
If you like to read and you patronize public libraries, try to get a hold of the book “Mort/e” by Robert Repino. This story might confirm your opinion.
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