For what reason do you bring that up? We’re talking about animals that are so large they’d be a hazard to a safe evacuation of an aircraft; how’d you like to be tripping over a pig or small horse? You bring that up just be provocative.
Never mentioned size in this thread...just facetious examples of snakes, bats, etc.
Miniature horse do indeed serve as blind animals.
No idea what the pig is doing so cannot speak to that *however*, many veterans are being helped with myriad issues, using dogs.
They are not technically “service animals”, per se, unless the vet is blind, also, but they serve an honorable purpose.
Other people have balance dogs, seizure alert dogs, diabetes alert dogs, etc and they’re not classified as “service dogs” in the same way as seeing eye dogs.
There is a balance between the ridiculous and the genuinely beneficial.
A line between necessary and just wanted...and I hate to see it being crossed out of hand just to be funny.
Don’t have a dog in this hunt as I have never and will never fly on a plane.
I do, however, know people with PTSD dogs, and not all of them veterans.
Some are little kids who have been physically and/or sexually abused.
The dogs make a world of difference but they are not “service dogs” in the strictest sense of the phrase.
Looking for a bit of balance amongst the absurdity, here.
I do not think I’m asking too much.