Posted on 08/15/2019 5:05:34 AM PDT by ConservativeMind
Miniature horses are among the service animals approved to take on flights, according to new guidelines provided Thursday by the federal government.
Service animals on planes has been the subject of much debate over the past several years, especially when the animal is a little exotic. To curb some of the debate, the U.S. Department of Transportation clarified which common service animals should almost always be allowed.
“With respect to animal species, we indicated that we would focus our enforcement efforts on ensuring that the most commonly used service animals (dogs, cats, and miniature horses) are accepted for transport as service animals,” the department said in a statement.
Here's a miniature horse on a plane pic.twitter.com/1aSt94nvDW
— James Kelleher (@etienneshrdlu) October 22, 2016 While not as common as dogs, miniature horses are known to make great service animals. They can live as long as 35 years, generally stand about 2 to 3 feet tall and weigh around 100 pounds when fully grown.
This doesn’t mean that all airlines are now obligated to board therapy miniature horses by law, but if they decide to ignore the new guideline, they could face a penalty.
The statement clarifies that animals outside of dogs, cats and miniature horses must be accepted or denied flight on a case-by-case basis.
Airlines will not be subject to punishment for denying access to service animals like snakes, reptiles, ferrets, rodents and spiders, according to the DOT.
The airlines have approximately 30 days to review and revise company policies in order to comply with the new regulations.
This is getting ridiculous.
Horses are not trainable. They crap when the spirit moves them. Therefore a stable animal.
Soon you will be able to book a stall in the stable section of the plane.
Is Mrs McConnell out of her mind?
Stupidity run amok.
They better let me take my miniature service elephant with me or I will sue.
We're way past ridiculous, it's becoming surreal.
Antonio!
Fetch me a sammich!
Antonio?
That is what I heard. Horses cannot be ‘housebroke.’
Airborne cattle cars.
Sheesh! I seriously may never fly again. (what horseshit! LOL)
Are these people really that starved for attention? How ever did they survive in the old days, before common sense went out the window?
Just plain HS.
Hyacinth’s sister Violet will be pleased!
Guess we have to put ‘shrinks’ up their with lawyers and pols as idiots out for their own good - no matter how misguided.
If we really want to get into studies and things that cause things to go bump in the night, I think if looked at hard enough when can find a straight line from the ‘temper calming drugs’ administered to students very early in their life - you know the ‘harmless’ drugs that are supposed to keep baby boy - now girl - in a calm enough state so as to sit in his seat for the school day.
Yes, we have always had some out of the way nutcases that would go on a rampage but I would imagine if it was really looked into hard, that we would find that most of these doing the modern ‘nasty crap’ are no stranger to some sort of mind altering ‘help’.
We ‘know’ it can’t be an unstable family life as most of the ‘doers’ are described as ‘good kids’ who just happened to get mistracked....
So, if I understand correctly, when you fly you can now have your pony.
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