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What do you think about emotional support animals being allowed on airplanes?
Personally, I think its a bunch of bull crap to allow such a thing. Riding on an airplane is already stressful and cramped. Allowing people to bring their untrained animals to sit next to other passengers is just wrong.
Doesn't everybody have pets that support them emotionally? I mean, you don't have an animal because it causes you grief...you have them because they make you feel good.
Meh, I would rather sit next to a dog than some big fat guy.........first world problems.
Which can be done for $69 and filling out a brief questionnaire on the Internet without the "professional" ever laying eyes on the person.
Yes, that direction does exist and can be easily done. Legally a service animal is property and is dealt with in that manner. We'll see if it ever makes it to court.
the injured person must show that:
the animal is vicious or dangerous,
the owner was careless with the animal or let it "go at liberty," which caused the injury, and
the injured person did not provoke the animal.
What do you think about emotional support animals being allowed on airplanes?
Personally, I think its a bunch of bull crap to allow such a thing. Riding on an airplane is already stressful and cramped. Allowing people to bring their untrained animals to sit next to other passengers is just wrong.
Doesn't everybody have pets that support them emotionally? I mean, you don't have an animal because it causes you grief...you have them because they make you feel good.
And anyone who doesn't see that is one of the inmates that run the asylum today. Everywhere you turn, they're there, and we've (collectively) let them take over.
As though we needed yet another reason to NEVER fly. The world gets a little more nuts every day....because we allow it to.
I'm solidly with you, as is everyone else of sound mind.
The word "kennel" is heavily misused to be synonymous to crates/carriers in the US. When I hear or use the word "kennel" a fenced area quickly comes to mind. People who don't own fenced areas or leave their animals at kennels while they go out of town for an extended time for whatever reason use the same word to mean both. Even online sellers use it wrong as people use the word as a search term and the only way to generally search for one is to type in the word.
Mundy entered the plane with the dog crated. When he sat in his seat he let the dog out to sit on his lap so he could play with it during boarding. He lost control of the dog for some reason. They were all taken off the plane and that flight left after statements were taken. The man injured was taken to a hospital. With all the statements in hand, the police released Mundy and his dog who were placed on a later flight. Since this happened on the 4th and nothing new has come out, it's going to be played out in the courts.
Pruzhany, we'll have to agree to disagree. I know what I'm reading. Nowhere in the article, which I HAVE read, thank you, does it state the dog was in a crate and then released. Nowhere. You're making that whole thing up.
The passage you posted:
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The dog was secured inside a dog crate and released to Mundy, who was not charged, according to the police report. He was allowed to fly with his dog in the kennel, according to Delta.
is AFTER THE INCIDENT happened. AFTER the incident, the dog was secured inside a dog crate and released to Mundy, who was not charged. I'm shocked you're not getting that.
And you seem to be completely ignoring the bolded part (bolding mine) further in the article:
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Delta’s website says it “complies with the Air Carrier Access Act by allowing customers traveling with emotional support animals or psychiatric service animals to travel without charge” if they comply with certain conditions and provide required documentation.
The animal “must be trained to behave properly in public settings as service animals do,” according to Delta’s website. “A kennel is not required for emotional support animals if they are fully trained and meet same requirements as a service animal.”
Read THE link, MPowering is correct. The emotional support dog bit the passenger. After they were escorted off the plane the dog was crated and allow to fly on a different flight.
No idea where you read the bolded, it is nowhere in the article.
Thanks, VG! I still don't think he'll get it, but thank you for the assist.
The dog should not have been taken out of its crate. Passenger is completely at fault. One of my children is very allergic to dogs and this would have been a nightmare flight for her. At the very least, the dog should have had a muzzle or not been taken out of its crate.
The dog wasn't in a crate until after it bit the passenger's face. At the bottom of the article it states support dogs don't need to be crated.
And airlines don't care about people with allergies. They'll remove you before they'll remove the passenger with the dog. A child was having an asthma attack and he and his family were escorted off the plane.
Meh, I would rather sit next to a dog than some big fat guy.........first world problems.
Ding ding ding! We've got our winner!
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Originally Posted by brownbagg
what about muzzles?
Dopey dog owners doing this would probably whine that it's unfair to the dog.
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Originally Posted by seaduced
Maybe there's a compromise - require the owner to purchase an extra seat..
How would that stop a dog from attacking a passenger? The dog was on the owners lap. Having no lap between the dog and the seat doesn't do anything to prevent an attack.
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