Weird Service Animals On Planes

GETTY IMAGES Tales of flights filled with service peacocks service rabbits service monkeys service turkeys and service iguanas have become an internet cottage industry.

Weird service animals on planes. Emotional support animals will no longer qualify as service animals for plane flight according to the rule but psychiatric service animals will. In May 2018 due to an uptick in strange support animals making it to 30000 feet American Airlines announced that hedgehogs would no longer be welcome on their flights. EMOTIONAL support animals can now be banned from plane cabins after the US government ruled only service dogs can fly with their owners.

Although commonly grouped together service animals and emotional support animals are very different. Airlines believed passengers abused the rule to bring a menagerie. On the other hand an emotional support animals sole purpose is to comfort.

As the Huffington Post reported in 2016 Maureen Van Dorn found herself sat beside a large dalmatian brought on board as a support animal. Snakes on a Plane the movie. Airlines meanwhile have expressed concern about the heightened attention these animals have received and the resources airlines expend each time an unusual or untrained animal is presented for.

A child was injured by an emotional support dog on a Southwest Airlines flight from Phoenix to Portland Ore in February fueling the debate over regulations regarding animals on. Sorry I cant help myself. Delta has a set of rules that bans snakes hedgehogs ferrets insects and sugar gliders.

The VERY strange emotional support pets passengers have taken on planes including ducks a kangaroo and a HORSE. As one Gawker writer said If I saw this happening in person it would not just make my trip or my month or my year it. One can only hope to be seated next to an adorable animal such as.

When it comes to service animals a dog is the most commonly used although the use of horses and monkeys has also been documented. A turtle is a trusty companion on a flight. But there has been at least one photo taken of an adorable kangaroo buckled into an airplane seat proof on American Airlines.