I have severe allergies to dogs and haven't been able to fly in some years because of the impossibility of securing a dog free flight, due to all these idiots and their ESA's (which are actually covered under faa regulations for a plane, not the ada). I am glad to see other people besides me realize how ridiculous all of this is. I hope regulations catch up soon. If air travel was just limited to real, actual service animals (a guide dog for the blind, for example) this would not be such a problem.

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Anonymous wrote:They need to eliminate the 'emotional support animal' designation. It's fairly meaningless.

In sad news, an emotional-support hamster named Pebbles was flushed down the toilet by its owner in February 2018 after Spirit Airlines informed the student she could not take the pet with her on the flight from Baltimore. Another man got angry at United Airlines for denying Dexter, his Instagram-famous emotional-support peacock, a seat on the plane from Newark, even though he had purchased a ticket for the bird.

I was just reading up about the hamster. The owner of the hamster obviously has a few problems herself to flush an animal down the toilet. Imagine the uproar if she had flushed a small kitten?

Yeah, the hamster owner clearly had big issues — “I cannot possibly fly without my hamster, but I can kill it in a horrible way.”

Anonymous wrote:They need to eliminate the 'emotional support animal' designation. It's fairly meaningless.

In sad news, an emotional-support hamster named Pebbles was flushed down the toilet by its owner in February 2018 after Spirit Airlines informed the student she could not take the pet with her on the flight from Baltimore. Another man got angry at United Airlines for denying Dexter, his Instagram-famous emotional-support peacock, a seat on the plane from Newark, even though he had purchased a ticket for the bird.

I was just reading up about the hamster. The owner of the hamster obviously has a few problems herself to flush an animal down the toilet. Imagine the uproar if she had flushed a small kitten?

They need to eliminate the 'emotional support animal' designation. It's fairly meaningless.

In sad news, an emotional-support hamster named Pebbles was flushed down the toilet by its owner in February 2018 after Spirit Airlines informed the student she could not take the pet with her on the flight from Baltimore. Another man got angry at United Airlines for denying Dexter, his Instagram-famous emotional-support peacock, a seat on the plane from Newark, even though he had purchased a ticket for the bird.

And here we have an "emotional support pitbull" who mauled a 5 year old in an airport waiting area. Keep your pets caged or in carriers or out of the airports. She had to have tear duct surgery and has permanent scarring.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/02/28/an-emotional-support-pit-bull-mauled-year-old-girl-an-airport-terminal-lawsuit-says/?utm_term=.7271ab67764b

Anonymous wrote:I’m training a psychiatric service dog (real one) right now. I agree with his suing. Animals need to be contained on flights. At the very least, muzzled.

+1. I flew a long time ago with Lufthansa with a tiny kitten. She had to be in her carrier at all times. This animal should have been contained.

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Anonymous wrote:I couldn't believe how many people had their dogs in Home Depot last weekend. People in this country are insane.

My DH just said the same thing recently!

A few years ago my then toddler son and I were in HD. A leashes dog came up to him and at the time he was scared of dogs. He crawled up my legs in order to get away from the dog. I posted in DCUM about it and was told that I needed to train my son to get over his fear of dogs. My argument was that my human child should be able to go into a retail store and not have to worry about encountering animals.

It's ridiculous. A dog came up to my 1 year old and licked her face which made her cry. I told the owner that dogs had to be leashed in that park and was told that he was helping my toddler toughen up so she would have no fear of dogs. Some pet owners are ridiculously entitled. If that ever happens again, I'm going to call the police/animal control.

Ridiculous! Someone should whack that person to toughen them up for the coming zombie apocalypse

My dog is going through a 4 week board and train program with a professional dog trainer who trains service dogs. He takes her to public places to teach her how to behave around people and unfamiliar settings. Home Depot and Lowe’s are two of the places he takes her because they’re noisy and allow dogs— he’s desensitizing her to noises/people. Those stores are great for that kind of controlled activity. I’d never take her there untrained, on my own.

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Anonymous wrote:I couldn't believe how many people had their dogs in Home Depot last weekend. People in this country are insane.

My DH just said the same thing recently!

A few years ago my then toddler son and I were in HD. A leashes dog came up to him and at the time he was scared of dogs. He crawled up my legs in order to get away from the dog. I posted in DCUM about it and was told that I needed to train my son to get over his fear of dogs. My argument was that my human child should be able to go into a retail store and not have to worry about encountering animals.

It's ridiculous. A dog came up to my 1 year old and licked her face which made her cry. I told the owner that dogs had to be leashed in that park and was told that he was helping my toddler toughen up so she would have no fear of dogs. Some pet owners are ridiculously entitled. If that ever happens again, I'm going to call the police/animal control.

What a jerk! Who asked for his “help” to “toughen up” your child?

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Anonymous wrote:I couldn't believe how many people had their dogs in Home Depot last weekend. People in this country are insane.

My DH just said the same thing recently!

A few years ago my then toddler son and I were in HD. A leashes dog came up to him and at the time he was scared of dogs. He crawled up my legs in order to get away from the dog. I posted in DCUM about it and was told that I needed to train my son to get over his fear of dogs. My argument was that my human child should be able to go into a retail store and not have to worry about encountering animals.

This happened to my son at a park. He was a toddler and the dog was much bigger than him. Now he’s 10 and is deathly afraid of dogs. We are looking for a therapist who can help him. It is a very difficult phobia to have bc dogs are in stores, parks etc. We went to Old Town (very dog friendly) last weekend and he was in full on panic mode the whole time. And it makes going to someone’s house extremely challenging if they have a dog.

Anonymous wrote:I couldn't believe how many people had their dogs in Home Depot last weekend. People in this country are insane.

+1 Why can’t the dogs stay home?

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Anonymous wrote:What dog breed was it?

That’s disturbing! I had to stop reading the article.

They said chocolate lab/pointer mix

That is what the dog owner said, but if you look at the actual pictures of the dog, it looks like a pit bull to me.

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Agree. Hard to see the snout but the ears look like pitbull ears. Not lab nor pointer ears

I don't see pit. I don't see lab either. That's a straight up mutt.

No one can tell for sure from that one particular photo, pit blood or not; however, the term "mix" these days is often code for "got some pit bull in him but I won't admit it."

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Anonymous wrote:I couldn't believe how many people had their dogs in Home Depot last weekend. People in this country are insane.

My DH just said the same thing recently!

A few years ago my then toddler son and I were in HD. A leashes dog came up to him and at the time he was scared of dogs. He crawled up my legs in order to get away from the dog. I posted in DCUM about it and was told that I needed to train my son to get over his fear of dogs. My argument was that my human child should be able to go into a retail store and not have to worry about encountering animals.

It's ridiculous. A dog came up to my 1 year old and licked her face which made her cry. I told the owner that dogs had to be leashed in that park and was told that he was helping my toddler toughen up so she would have no fear of dogs. Some pet owners are ridiculously entitled. If that ever happens again, I'm going to call the police/animal control.

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Anonymous wrote:What dog breed was it?

That’s disturbing! I had to stop reading the article.

They said chocolate lab/pointer mix

That is what the dog owner said, but if you look at the actual pictures of the dog, it looks like a pit bull to me.

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Agree. Hard to see the snout but the ears look like pitbull ears. Not lab nor pointer ears

I don't see pit. I don't see lab either. That's a straight up mutt.

Anonymous wrote:You definitely do need to teach your children how to protect themselves from animals.

Getting mauled can change your life forever.

I’ve owned a small, aggressive dog that bit me. I’ve also been attacked by a dog while canvassing. It always happened SO fast and hurt so much that thinking about what to do was impossible. In tight quarters, like an airline seat, how exactly does one prevent an attack?