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Flying with an emotional support animal may soon get a whole lot more difficult (do it!)
yahoo ^ | 9/11/2019 | quartz

Posted on 09/12/2019 2:09:25 PM PDT by max americana

Emotional support animals come in all shapes and sizes—as large and ostentatious as a miniature horse or full-sized peacock, or as unobtrusive as a well-trained guinea pig. Some offer support via timely yaps, others by quiet companionship. Some are friends to all, others take their work too seriously to bother with strangers. In the US, most public places are under no obligation to make any allowance for these animals, whatever their demeanor or size. The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) defines service animals in terms of their extensive training—think guide dogs or medical-emergency animals that receive months of specialized instruction. But emotional support animals, who may receive no training whatsoever, are excluded from the law’s protection.

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A crackdown is underway As of last year, airlines can now require paperwork in advance that confirms animals have been vaccinated, are certified as emotional support animals, and that their owners take complete responsibility for them. Since August, airline employees have been able to exclude animals they consider to be a safety risk—though excluding entire dog or cat breeds is prohibited. The anti-vax movement is effectively reversing decades of progress in disease prevention More rules may be forthcoming. In a months-long open session last year, the department received around 4,500 comments on the topic. In response, it announced in August this year that a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on the transportation of service animals would come as soon as it had reviewed these comments. Many came from a coalition of stakeholders—multiple US carriers, flight attendant and pilot unions, guide-dog foundations, and members of the disability community—who have asked federal officials to up the ante and put further restrictions in place.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Pets/Animals; Travel
KEYWORDS: airlines; aviation; cats; dog; pets; servicedogs; servicepets
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To: max americana
perhaps these lazy entitled liars and cheats should be required to carry a bond, like a million dollars incase their little pets bite somebody or God forbid, cause a crash...

I'm NOT talking about seeing eye dogs....

21 posted on 09/12/2019 2:40:29 PM PDT by cherry
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To: Varda

Well, what about Popeyes’ Emotional Support Chicken?


22 posted on 09/12/2019 2:40:37 PM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: cherry

That’s a good idea. Why not?


23 posted on 09/12/2019 2:42:52 PM PDT by max americana (Fired ONE libtard at work at every election since 2008 because I enjoy it. I hope every lib die.)
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To: Vendome

I’m like you... I just admit to myself that certain things are disgusting...like dragging your animal into grocery stores where cleanliness and order should be top priority...its just arrogance and a wink wink look what I got away with mentality, cuz you’re too cheap to kennel your animal....


24 posted on 09/12/2019 2:43:58 PM PDT by cherry
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To: yesthatjallen
...Any doctor or shrink can write a note to the airline. It's the same abuse as handicap parking permits.

Yep. I know a couple who travelled extensively all over the world and boarded their dog while they travelled. Then when they were moving to London they got their doctor to write a note saying the dog was the wife's support animal and they bought it a first-class ticket. The dog is well-behaved and a sweetie, but I wouldn't want to be on a long flight with her. And I don't care how well behaved an animal is, in emergencies animals can be unpredictable and could impede evacuation and other safety efforts.

25 posted on 09/12/2019 2:45:45 PM PDT by Kipp
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To: max americana

I demand they accommodate my full grown giraffe and remember animal cruelty laws if he gets a sore neck so raise the roof.


26 posted on 09/12/2019 2:47:36 PM PDT by bgill
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To: familyop
Went to the UK in the early 1990s. A couple had a Golden Retriever, iirc.

They must have dosed it, and got the first center seats in commercial. That is, they had a section wall in front of them.

They, including the dog, didn't get up when deplaning, so they probably were the last passengers off the flight.

27 posted on 09/12/2019 2:48:13 PM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: max americana

Pets in cargo all too often die.

I used to take my French Bulldog, Louie on the airplane with me when he was a puppy, but now I drive my SUV and like it much better.

Of course, I also have 2 French Bulldogs. Lola and Louie. There’s no way Lola would sit quietly on an airplane. I wouldn’t dare subject fellow passengers to her.


28 posted on 09/12/2019 2:49:29 PM PDT by onyx
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To: max americana
Me and my emotional support animal may have to protest this.


29 posted on 09/12/2019 2:49:55 PM PDT by Delta 21 (Be strong & prosper, be weak & die! Stay true.... ~~ Donald J. Trump)
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To: cherry

Nope.

is more the former of your statement:
“its just arrogance and a wink wink look what I got away with mentality,”

Total conceit to push boundaries in search of conceited purpose, vain validation at the expense of others....


30 posted on 09/12/2019 2:58:45 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BB0ndRzaz2o)
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To: max americana

A few months ago, a couple brought their “comfort” pit bull to the local Walmart. The dog was very skittish and did not want to be there. It might have made its handler comfortable but it made everyone else quite uncomfortable.


31 posted on 09/12/2019 3:00:26 PM PDT by CommerceComet (Hillary: A unique blend of arrogance, incompetence, and corruption.)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

You are so right. The airlines need to improve their treatment of pets in their crates!

If the airlines had better treatment of luggage you wouldn’t have everybody trying to drag many large suitcases aboard. You wants to have anything of value stolen from their suitcase.

The airlines have asked for all the luggage brought aboard and all the emotion support animals.


32 posted on 09/12/2019 3:06:05 PM PDT by ladyjane
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To: yesthatjallen

In Illinois, you have to have your dog certified by the state as a “Good Citizen”, meaning that it is safe to be in public. A professional trainer does an evaluation, and forwards the results. Anywhere that offers dog training will generally be able to perform that service.

My dog is certified as a therapy dog (dogs brought to hospitals and nursing homes for therapy), and is being trained for service.


33 posted on 09/12/2019 4:08:16 PM PDT by Tacrolimus1mg (Do no harm, but take no sh!t.)
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To: Tacrolimus1mg

I want my massage therapist with me on long flights. Would they make room to set up her table?


34 posted on 09/12/2019 4:39:43 PM PDT by oldasrocks (Heavily Medicated for your Protection.)
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To: Tacrolimus1mg

screw that.

A good citizen dog?

a certification?


35 posted on 09/12/2019 4:43:40 PM PDT by Chickensoup (Voter ID for 2020!! Leftists totalitarian fascists appear to be planning to eradicate conservatives)
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To: real saxophonist

Heheh, I always liked that one...:)

Seriously...I think people are fed up with this crap.


36 posted on 09/12/2019 4:43:57 PM PDT by rlmorel (Trump to China: This Capitalist Will Not Sell You the Rope with Which You Will Hang Us.)
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To: familyop

There was a documentary about the discovery of the USS Quincy in Ironbottom Sound near Guadalcanal, and the guy who flew there on one of those island hopping planes had to share the planes with goats and other livestock!


37 posted on 09/12/2019 4:45:51 PM PDT by rlmorel (Trump to China: This Capitalist Will Not Sell You the Rope with Which You Will Hang Us.)
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To: surrey

Babies have become an inconvenience to be killed in the womb, so the maternal instinct has been transferred to animals.


38 posted on 09/12/2019 4:47:34 PM PDT by Rastus
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To: ladyjane
The airlines need to improve their treatment of pets in their crates!

Not to mention, the airlines need to improve their treatment of humans in economy class.

39 posted on 09/12/2019 4:47:42 PM PDT by Inspectorette
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To: Delta 21

I like him. I also like Wally the Emotional Support Alligator.

And, personally, I prefer a gnu. Soon Sue the Emotional Support Gnu will be flying all over the place.


40 posted on 09/12/2019 4:58:47 PM PDT by Veto! (Political Correctness Offends Me)
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