In this case - Delta probably should have delivered the dog.
But - due to the horrible abuses this nation is dealing with regarding service animals - incidents like this are bound to happen.
Cry baby whiners.
And what an emotionally manipulative article.
When you can buy “service animal” vests off of eBay, and everybody with a dog starts using them to take PETS where they don’t belong, people needing genuine service dogs suffer. People can be such assholes. Dogs, typically not so much.
I’m starting to see many people with these so-called ‘service’ animals everywhere. You used to hardly ever see one, maybe once or twice a year. Now it’s so common, I begin to wonder if they are real service animals, or just pets that the owners put some special harness on.......................flame away.............
I think a contributing factor is the upswing of people with “emotional support” animals. Which I see as a cheesy excuse to bring your pet with you to places they’re typically banned. A kid last spring was bringing is boa constrictor to school as “emotional support” because without it he felt unloved and panic stricken.
Which is blurring the line between true service dogs and this weird snowflake BS.
Why does the dog have to ride in the passenger section? Why can’t it go in cargo where most animals being shipped by air are kept?
Pit Bulls going off at 30,000 feet with 250 unarmed civilians, what’s wrong with that?
Put your “service animal” in the hold, it does not fit under your seat anyway.
Moronic tide pod eater...
We’re heading for a time where the passenger compartment on an airliner is going to resemble a Tijuana bus ... chickens and dogs running up and down the aisles — notwithstanding that they would be “service chickens” and “service dogs”.
BS. The parents should have been to watch over the child. No dog needed on that flight. More nonsense.
Why would you get a pitbull as a service dog?
Kudos Delta!
Seriously, are there no ‘dogs of this type’ in California?
There is a nutjob in our small town with a “service” boa constrictor he wears around his neck and goes to Safeway. Haven’t seen him in a while, maybe the snake got tired of it.
It’s time to end this “service” animal stuff 100% on airplanes and in establishments where food is sold.
An iPhone could answer a question, give GPS-based directions, call an airline for stewardess assistance, etc.
Fido, where’s the Delta counter for flight 1038? [no response]
On airplanes, true service animals are called either steward or stewardess.
Give me a break.
I would guess 90% of service animals are scams. The Seeing Eye dogs were around for years without any problems And then suddenly all the entitled people felt they needed a service dog too. A liberal grievance based legal system obliged them, and not without the help of overreaching intrusive Federal laws.
And the thought of a pit bull suddenly going full crazy on a crowded airplane is as horrifying as snakes on a plane, and certainly not worth the risk to innocent people to allow them on board.
This is NOT a situation where a person with a disability was traveling with a dog trained to do a task.
The disabled person was not present.
“I said that’s discrimination. That’s illegal,”
That sounds correct -- I can't imagine anyone being aroused by a legal issue.
Worst imaginable writing. If there's a "two-year-old child dealing with seizures on one of its flights" they should call 911 not the ASPCA.