Emotional support dogs are just another snowflake pile of bovine excrement.
Agreed. If you're too emotionally unstable to travel without your "emotional support dog" then you're too emotionally unstable to inflict yourself on the public and you should commit yourself for a course of treatment.
I also wish Southwest would crack down on these phonies who travel with their pets loose on the aircraft. You see these a$$holes letting their pets run loose in the airport, ironically often right by the signs that says pets must be kept in carriers.
Not always. I’ve personally known vets who came back from war horribly injured and/or with serious emotional issues. For some of them, their support dogs have been a great help. There are groups now that specialize in dogs for vets:
https://neads.org/service-dog-programs/service-dogs-for-veterans/
“Emotional support,” pooh! The owner just does not want to have to pay a kennel or get a n acquaintance to keep and board the animal while they are away. Love of money is the emotional issue involved, if any. They inflict the hotels and businesses with the same pain.
hear,hear!!!