Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

DOT Issues Proposal Defining Dogs as Service Animals on Aircraft
Breitbart ^ | January 22,2020 | KATHERINE RODRIGUEZ

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS:
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-35 next last

1 posted on 01/22/2020 6:00:04 PM PST by Hojczyk
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: Hojczyk

What about my service peacock?????


2 posted on 01/22/2020 6:03:06 PM PST by kaehurowing
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: kaehurowing
Or penguin?

https://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/penguins-on-a-plane-meet-southwests-feathered-frequent-flyers/

3 posted on 01/22/2020 6:04:38 PM PST by Captain Walker
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: Hojczyk

“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.


4 posted on 01/22/2020 6:13:18 PM PST by fruser1
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Hojczyk

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.


5 posted on 01/22/2020 6:13:46 PM PST by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Hojczyk

What about my emotional supporter, my pet skunk?


6 posted on 01/22/2020 6:15:28 PM PST by entropy12 (You are either for free enterprise or want gov't to protect your wage levels. Can't be both.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Hojczyk

That's just great ;/

What the Hell am I supposed to do with my emotional support Cobra now!?

7 posted on 01/22/2020 6:15:42 PM PST by chris37 (Where's Hunter?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: kaehurowing
> What about my service peacock????? <

That’s your problem. I’m more worried about my service moose.


8 posted on 01/22/2020 6:15:46 PM PST by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: kaehurowing

“What about my service peacock?????”

I asked an Asian stewardess that very question and she slapped me.


9 posted on 01/22/2020 6:17:47 PM PST by fruser1
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: Captain Walker

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.


10 posted on 01/22/2020 6:19:03 PM PST by gibsonguy
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: Leaning Right

No support Gerbils?
San Francisco files injunction in 3..2..1...


11 posted on 01/22/2020 6:22:30 PM PST by glasseye ("24 hours in a day, 24 beers in a case. Coincidence? I think not." ~ H. L. Mencken)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 8 | View Replies]

To: chris37

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.


12 posted on 01/22/2020 6:30:06 PM PST by Billthedrill
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | View Replies]

To: Billthedrill

OMG I’m so there!

Spitty will be extra happy!


13 posted on 01/22/2020 6:41:49 PM PST by chris37 (Where's Hunter?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 12 | View Replies]

To: Hojczyk; Chode; Squantos; SkyDancer; carriage_hill; Delta 21; MtnClimber; tubebender; Lockbox; ...

Train Your Service Dog to piss on the TSA Stupivisors Right foot on Command.


14 posted on 01/22/2020 6:45:14 PM PST by mabarker1 ((Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!! A fraud, a hypocrite, a liar. I'm a member of Congress !!!!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: mabarker1

I don’t believe these “service” animals should be on board. In cases of emergencies they’d hamper a quick and timely exit.


15 posted on 01/22/2020 6:47:41 PM PST by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me ,A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 14 | View Replies]

To: mabarker1

bout time...


16 posted on 01/22/2020 6:49:46 PM PST by Chode (Send bachelors and come heavily armed.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 14 | View Replies]

To: Hojczyk

I wonder if they’d allow my service animal on the flight deck?


17 posted on 01/22/2020 6:50:29 PM PST by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me ,A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Hojczyk

I need my emotional support mule.


18 posted on 01/22/2020 6:52:39 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (BLACK LIVES MAGA)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Billthedrill

And it would work out great because diversity!


19 posted on 01/22/2020 7:10:56 PM PST by polymuser (It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and so few by deceit. Noel Coward)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 12 | View Replies]

To: Hojczyk

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.


20 posted on 01/22/2020 7:11:07 PM PST by HighSierra5
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-35 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson