Oakland woman and service dog kicked off Southwest Airlines flight

San Jose Mercury ^ | 11/29/2013 | Kristin J. Bender

[Trailerpark Badass]

Nope.

[AppyPappy]

Everyone is a victim now.

[lastchance]

The dog is signalling her to take her medication. A trained seizure dog is very expensive. Not all dogs are suited for the task.

[driftdiver]

Doesn’t mean I want to sit next to her pitbull on an airplane

[hinckley buzzard]

Got an idea there, einstein. Why don't you tell that to the hundreds, maybe thousands of combat vets with PTSD who rely on service dogs on a daily basis. After all, you think you know more about trauma than they do.

[Gay State Conservative]

Twenty plus years of experience on the staff of a big city ER taught me a lot about genuine suffering *and* frauds and phonies.You sound like a quack psychologist who works exclusively for one of those SSDI lawyers you see advertising on Oprah's failing network.

[Revolting cat!]

Professional neurotic.

[lastchance]

Unfortunately the imagination of cruel people set on abusing a child is unlimited by concerns like hell fire and damnation. If the abuse was severe enough that her doctor has diagnosed PTSD then yes she is a victim.

[Theoria]

Big deal. You should see what my cats do when they know I want a beer.

[elcid1970]

A pitbull is a pitbull is a pitbull. Jaws like a steel trap. Bottom line. Is that the only breed trainable as a seizure dog?

Pitbulls are good at seizing things, in a bonecrushing grip, and once they start pulverizing flesh & bone, they’re only stoppable with a .44 Magnum or thereabouts.

[Farmer Dean]

Service dogs have had their temperament tested.No worries about an unprovoked bite.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

I don’t have any problem with someone who TRULY needs a service animal for physical/psychological needs. The last straw was when my husband came home at the beginning of a semester. He’s a prof at a local school. The staff were informed that they had to accommodate a student with a “service animal”.........which was.....get this.....a “comfort chicken”. I kid you not. That’s what admin came up with to label this....”situation”.

The unfortunate teacher of the student with the “comfort chicken” had the thing clucking throughout the lecture as the student clutched the bird under her arm.

True story.

[Rome2000]

Everyone in this article with the possible exception of the dog appear to be insane.

[driftdiver]

Its a pit bull

[bubbacluck]

I am sorry for being rude but when I think of “comfort chicken” I think of KFC.

[lowbridge]

Those yorkies sure are braggarts.

[Cvengr]

Teach the class dressed as Col Sanders.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Heh! I couldn’t believe it when he told be. The admin is INSANE and all PC. The kids and I were doubled over laughing. I thought he was kidding. The admin were DEAD serious.

[artichokegrower]

Don’t want to take the red eye sitting 6 hours next to a pit bull. It’s a freakin’ airplane and it’s hard to get away from an angry dog. What’s next a companion alligator?

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

“me”....sorry, typo