Posted on 01/22/2020 6:00:04 PM PST by Hojczyk
The Department of Transportation (DOT) is seeking public comment on a proposal issued Wednesday defining what can and cannot be labeled a service animal on an aircraft.
The DOT explicitly defined a service animal as as a dog that is individually trained to do work or perform tasks for the benefit of a qualified individual with a disability, including a physical, sensory, psychiatric, intellectual, or other mental disability.
The agency also put additional limits on emotional support animals, saying that while these animals can be recognized as service animals, airlines do not have to recognize them.
Owners with disabilities would also have to fill out three universal DOT forms before their animals would be allowed to board an aircraft.
One form would have to show their animals history of training and good behavior, another would have to provide proof that the animal is in good health, and the final one would have to demonstrate that the animal has the ability to not relieve itself or relieve itself in a sanitary manner on flights more than eight hours long.
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What about my service peacock?????
https://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/penguins-on-a-plane-meet-southwests-feathered-frequent-flyers/
“demonstrate that the animal has the ability to not relieve itself or relieve itself in a sanitary manner on flights more than eight hours long”
The prices are great at Dog Depot because they only sell 7-hour dogs.
I need my emotional support Indian Elephant (no not the Dem senator Elizabeth Pocafauxtus) to go with me on the plane to enable me to keep calm during the flight.
What about my emotional supporter, my pet skunk?

That's just great ;/
What the Hell am I supposed to do with my emotional support Cobra now!?
Thats your problem. Im more worried about my service moose.
“What about my service peacock?????”
I asked an Asian stewardess that very question and she slapped me.
My hope is what is really going on is they are making it harder for people to get their pets in the cabin. It has gotten out of hand. Selfish a-holes just stick a vest on
Arnold and bring them on the plane and if someone allergic too bad. and the Next you know the aisle looks like a SF street.
No support Gerbils?
San Francisco files injunction in 3..2..1...
I think there should be a special section at the back of the airplane where the emotional support rabbits and gerbils and lap dogs and cobras and pythons and leopards could all ride together in peace and harmony. You could sell pay per view. Take bets.
OMG I’m so there!
Spitty will be extra happy!
Train Your Service Dog to piss on the TSA Stupivisors Right foot on Command.
I don’t believe these “service” animals should be on board. In cases of emergencies they’d hamper a quick and timely exit.
bout time...
I wonder if they’d allow my service animal on the flight deck?
I need my emotional support mule.
And it would work out great because diversity!
All animals other than a service dog for a legitimately handicapped person should be transported in a carrier in the cargo hold of a passenger plane. No ifs ands or buts about it. Period.
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