Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A dog on a plane wouldn't bother me but I was at the symphony the other night and a woman came in with a large dog who was wearing a service dog vest. She was seated down in front where the dog had plenty of floor space. I watched the cellist on the outside of his row cut his eyes at her big time. It was hilarious. At a quiet spot in the music the dog stood up and went to shake (you could sort of see the windup if you are a pet person). It was wearing a ton of jingly tags with no tag silencers. The woman leapt on to the dog to stop it. I could not for the life of me see what in what capacity it was a service dog. The vest did not look as "official" as some I've seen.

Service dogs perform all kinds of functions that you may not recognize - it's not just leading the blind. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10670951/

And there aren't any "official" service dog vests.

I flew two days ago and there were no dogs on my flight. I'd have loved to sit next t the dog on OP's plane.

It is very easy (for me, at least) to tell if a dog is a real service animal or a fake. The big, patient service dog at the symphony who just stood up once to shake off and then lie back down? Totally legit. The panting, whining goldendoodle who is pulling on the leash trying to greet/sniff other people at the grocery store? Fake.

Well I guess it's a good thing that you know so much about dogs. DOGE should hire you with all your well informed insight.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A dog on a plane wouldn't bother me but I was at the symphony the other night and a woman came in with a large dog who was wearing a service dog vest. She was seated down in front where the dog had plenty of floor space. I watched the cellist on the outside of his row cut his eyes at her big time. It was hilarious. At a quiet spot in the music the dog stood up and went to shake (you could sort of see the windup if you are a pet person). It was wearing a ton of jingly tags with no tag silencers. The woman leapt on to the dog to stop it. I could not for the life of me see what in what capacity it was a service dog. The vest did not look as "official" as some I've seen.

Service dogs perform all kinds of functions that you may not recognize - it's not just leading the blind. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10670951/

And there aren't any "official" service dog vests.

I flew two days ago and there were no dogs on my flight. I'd have loved to sit next t the dog on OP's plane.

It is very easy (for me, at least) to tell if a dog is a real service animal or a fake. The big, patient service dog at the symphony who just stood up once to shake off and then lie back down? Totally legit. The panting, whining goldendoodle who is pulling on the leash trying to greet/sniff other people at the grocery store? Fake.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This exact post has been written before. Month or 2 ago. Someone just doesn’t like pit bulls and wants to keep complaining about them.

There is a devoted anti-pit poster or two, and they will drag out any clickbait news article to rant out their pit hate. If there isn't recent news, we get these "eyewitness reports" of pit bull sightings.

Pit bull seen on plane (simply being a dog)! News at 11...

The real headline is that they were on a plane and nothing happened

Anonymous wrote:A dog on a plane wouldn't bother me but I was at the symphony the other night and a woman came in with a large dog who was wearing a service dog vest. She was seated down in front where the dog had plenty of floor space. I watched the cellist on the outside of his row cut his eyes at her big time. It was hilarious. At a quiet spot in the music the dog stood up and went to shake (you could sort of see the windup if you are a pet person). It was wearing a ton of jingly tags with no tag silencers. The woman leapt on to the dog to stop it. I could not for the life of me see what in what capacity it was a service dog. The vest did not look as "official" as some I've seen.

Service dogs perform all kinds of functions that you may not recognize - it's not just leading the blind. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10670951/

And there aren't any "official" service dog vests.

I flew two days ago and there were no dogs on my flight. I'd have loved to sit next t the dog on OP's plane.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I mean, we do remember the stories of people getting mauled by pit bulls and "lab mixes," right?

Being in a enclosed, noisy environment with lots of strangers is a difficult situation for not properly socialized dog (i.e., fake service dog). I love dogs and have owned many GSDs through the years, and I absolutely would not want to sit next to an agitated pit bull, GSD, etc. A little yappy/snarly chihuahua in a carrier? Annoying, but not worrisome.

Take your xanax and handle it. You have a phobia. That doesn't make a dog breed a credible threat.

Besides, this isn't even the reality being described. The dog was fine. Sorry you're not. Get help, if needed.

Sigh. That is such an inflammatory response. This dog was fine, nothing happened, the world moved on. However, I do think that airlines should crack down on fake "service" dogs... because every 3 or 4 years, an onboard dog does end up biting another passenger. So, yes, the OP should contact the airline to complain.

Anonymous wrote:I'd rather sit next to the dog than next to most people on airplanes.

+100

Anonymous wrote:I mean, we do remember the stories of people getting mauled by pit bulls and "lab mixes," right?

Being in a enclosed, noisy environment with lots of strangers is a difficult situation for not properly socialized dog (i.e., fake service dog). I love dogs and have owned many GSDs through the years, and I absolutely would not want to sit next to an agitated pit bull, GSD, etc. A little yappy/snarly chihuahua in a carrier? Annoying, but not worrisome.

Take your xanax and handle it. You have a phobia. That doesn't make a dog breed a credible threat.

Besides, this isn't even the reality being described. The dog was fine. Sorry you're not. Get help, if needed.

I'd rather sit next to the dog than next to most people on airplanes.

I mean, we do remember the stories of people getting mauled by pit bulls and "lab mixes," right?

Being in a enclosed, noisy environment with lots of strangers is a difficult situation for not properly socialized dog (i.e., fake service dog). I love dogs and have owned many GSDs through the years, and I absolutely would not want to sit next to an agitated pit bull, GSD, etc. A little yappy/snarly chihuahua in a carrier? Annoying, but not worrisome.

Anonymous wrote:This exact post has been written before. Month or 2 ago. Someone just doesn’t like pit bulls and wants to keep complaining about them.

There is a devoted anti-pit poster or two, and they will drag out any clickbait news article to rant out their pit hate. If there isn't recent news, we get these "eyewitness reports" of pit bull sightings.

Pit bull seen on plane (simply being a dog)! News at 11...

Anonymous wrote:Once a dog starts barking in the gate or on the flight, the owner has been outed as a fraud. Airlines need to be more punitive in banning that person from ever flying with an animal again. There needs to be some limits.

Says the expert.

Barking, whining, pawing, agitated behavior, etc. can all be trained alerting behaviors, idiot. You think the dog is going to speak English? "Pardon me, Susan, but I wanted to let you know that your blood sugar is going low." That you think you know what's going on doesn't make you magically better-informed than the owner and the airline staff, who aren't blind to the dog's behavior. If the dog was there, there was a reason. You don't need to know it; you're not entitled to everyone on the flight's personal business. Just mind your own.

The dog flew on a plane, and you didn't like it. That's the whole story, and you sound absolutely unhinged for trying to make more of it than it was.

This nearly identical post was posted in July. I think op is just a troll. https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1215401.page

Anonymous wrote:The airlines may be choosing to do it given the weather/below the plane isn't heated so the dogs could die.

No, they don’t do that. When you buy a ticket for your pet to fly cargo, they won’t let you buy it if the weather is below a certain temp or over a certain temp in any area where you are flying. And they also tell you that if the temp unexpectedly goes above or below that temp, they will NOT take the dog in the plane and you will be SOL. You also need a layover of more than a certain time but less than a certain time (I think between 1 and 3 hours) as they don’t want the dog to miss the connection or to have to take care of the dog for a long layover. It’s actually super hard yo fly a dog cargo. For a brief moment there was a plane company that only flew dogs but I think they went out of business very quickly. This is one reason a lot of people give up their pets when they move — it’s really hard to transport them if you’re not driving cross country.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Dogs are easier than crying kids. I flew once to Hawaii and a big lab was in the same row but different side. He was the sweetest boy. The owners were moving to Hawaii and were allowed to have him in the cabin. He just slept whole time except for a few times people stopped to pet him. Let’s worry about real things. Also pit bulls are sweet dogs that on occasion are raised by people who teach them to be awful and this can happen with any breed.

There is always one of you in every dog thread comparing humans to dog. It’s a mental illness. Seak therapy.

Totally. Dog people here sound like entitled lunatics. F! No to pit bulls on planes. Comparing A dog favorably over a baby is a new state of crazy.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A dog on a plane wouldn't bother me but I was at the symphony the other night and a woman came in with a large dog who was wearing a service dog vest. She was seated down in front where the dog had plenty of floor space. I watched the cellist on the outside of his row cut his eyes at her big time. It was hilarious. At a quiet spot in the music the dog stood up and went to shake (you could sort of see the windup if you are a pet person). It was wearing a ton of jingly tags with no tag silencers. The woman leapt on to the dog to stop it. I could not for the life of me see what in what capacity it was a service dog. The vest did not look as "official" as some I've seen.

People with epilepsy have dogs to warn them about siezures. People with diabetes have dogs to warn them about glucose spikes. Lots of very legitimate reasons a person might need a service dog.

+1 My son knew a girl in college who had her service dog with her. It would alert her when her heart rate reached a certain point.