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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Only if you're ordered to assassinate another passenger without it being obvious.
I don’t believe in emotional support animals. They are frivolous. How, oh how, did people deal with stressful, emotional, traumatic crises before emotional support animals???
Oh, wait, I know: some of them, like I did in January, turned to Jesus. He and his Father will be my rock, not some dumb doggy. These people with these ill-tempered animals need Jesus!
In Maryland, if you’re having some sort of trouble, you can usually find a handicapped stop. Then again, the fine in this state for a violation is at least $250.
200$ in Ohio, but everyone seems to have the Handicapped hanger. I see young “teens” jump out of cars with the hanger.
STOP THIS MADNESS!!! CRAZY people should NOT be FLYING!!! And neither should their FAKE DIOGS, CATS, FERRETS, PIGS, PEACOCKS, SNAKES, MINI HORSES, etc!! STOP IT AIRLINES and CRUISE SHIPS!!
Yes, but has she been professionally trained? If so, what did it cost? I’d like to have my wife with me on airplanes.
I want an emotional support “empty space (a circle with a radius of 50 yards) call it - exclusion zone” that is “triggered (one of their words)” every time a person in need of an emotional support animal comes within the “exclusion zone”.
Yes there is widespread abuse and yes I agree that a very very large percentage of those that claim their animal is a ESA are lying pieces of crap that through their abuse make life extra difficult for those that actually need and have them.
Save your condemnation for those that abuse the law. It is against the law in many states, if not all to require proof of an ESA or Assistance animal. I too am angered to say the least by people that take their untrained and often dirty animals into grocery stores by claiming they are ESA's. It's a fault in the law meant to protect the disabled that allows the abuse to occur.
Since the law protecting the disabled was so poorly written that the management of stores cannot even ask beyond if the animal is a service animal......the law ties the hands of managers with the fear of a lawsuit, even when it’s obvious as in your experience that the animal was not.
Just wow, maybe you would like to take that show on the road to local VA's and tell the soldiers that.
Actually an ESA must be prescribed by a Doctor first and foremost, but there are numerous bogus companies that will sell you a pretty piece of paper document and service animal vest and just all sorts of crap. Unfortunately the way that laws meant to protect the disabled were written make it illegal to ask for proof and that’s what drives the wide spread abuse by people that treat their dogs more like children they can’t be away from.
Did the dog’s room have one of these signs?
Seems the right thing to do.
I don’t see an easy solution to this problem because some people honestly need some of these animals.
Has there yet been a case where someone who HONESTLY needed a pet (like a seeing eye dog) to ride on the airplane was not allowed to ?
How many cases that have been in the news have been about people who are abusing the whole concept ?
It's all about 'them' and not the pet. If you really want to see the truth to that concept, just watch what happens when TWO people with emotional support animals have to be near each other out in public.
I don’t like dogs.
The only “emotional support” dogs that should be allowed, are those for troops returning from war zone duty, or other victims of like situations, who have a bona fide diagnosis of PTSD. And then, they should be dogs that are trained at a bona fide dog training facility registered to train service dogs. This business of designating little Fifi, the ankle biter, as a support dog, is ridiculous. If someone is too emotionally impaired to go out in public without their pet, (as opposed to a genuine service animal), maybe they should either get some serious counseling, or just stay home.
That’s OK, I don’t like A-holes.
You are ok with people getting attacked by support dogs.
However it is true that you believe support animals are fake and that people that use them are frauds. So just go suck on your insult to all vets that have service animals as well as other legitimate disabled.
Adios, I'm through, so you'll just have to play with yourself.
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