Posted on 01/14/2016 12:40:43 PM PST by Hojczyk
If you think that air travel has gone to the birds, it has -literally.
We're talkin' turkey, as in that big Thanksgiving bird, one of which recently was spotted aboard a Delta flight acting as a "support animal," and that's causing a flap over how passengers are using, and abusing, comfort animal rules.
So how can a turkey get on a plane? Simple. The passenger provided proper documentation proving the fowl was indeed their emotional support animal, so Delta let the bird on board, and even gave it its own seat.
Turkeys aren't the only animals used as emotional support animals on flights. Horses, pigs and--yes, dogs are regularly used.
In 1986, Congress passed the Air Carrier Access Act, allowing service animals to fly on planes and ensuring they can't be removed simply on the grounds that other passengers object. That turkey, or other emotional support animals, requires documentation from a mental health professional. It can't walk about the cabin and can't do their business during the flight (after 8 hours the animal's owner must plan for the clean disposal of waste), something that must be a written guarantee from the human passenger. They also can't block aisles or take up seats near the emergency doors.
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another day another Democrat!
What’s next? Skunks, raccoons, vultures, gila monsters...
ESA’s are not service animals. Just sack up and take a pill like the rest of us, you weak emotional pansies.
Lunatic.
Dogs at least give you love back.
So you could bring your support horse on board?
Snakes and gators aren’t “unusual”.
“With God as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly.”
Can I bring on board a tankful of Urechis unicinctus as my support animals?
Turkeys are dangerous animals................
They can! ...........on Delta Airlines!...........FWIW, WILD Turkeys fly very well over short distances..............
It would great if all of the ‘support animal’ craze would go away, but now that the camel’s nose is under the tent - hey! That’s not just a camel. It’s a support camel.
Only if you’re headed for Tijuana.............
Dangnabit! You made me look something up again.
“So you could bring your support horse on board?”
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As a matter of fact, yes!
I remember reading a thread on flyertalk.com a number of years ago about a passenger in First Class who had a Shetland pony as a service animal.
Of course, the pony did its business in the aisle.
I would not want to shell out the money for a First Class plane ticket and have a Shetland pony standing in the aisle, especially on a long-haul flight.
But I am entitled!!!
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