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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.

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Anonymous wrote:I brought my elderly, ill cat on a transatlantic flight using the “support pet” angle when i was moving back to the US. Nobody knew she was there, tucked under the seat in front of me.

I realize that size prevents it being an option for most dogs, but ones that can fit in a carrier should be in one and — at the very least — dogs should be muzzled and harnessed. I don’t care if “he wouldn’t hurt a fly.” I wouldn’t plunk my cat down next to a person and expect them to be happy. Why do people expect it with dogs?

I hate cats on flights. Their allergens are more prevalent than dogs because their grooming sends dander into the air. Some of us have asthmatic reactions to cats. I have to travel with rescue inhalers (only time I need them) because of cats on planes.

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Anonymous wrote:I brought my elderly, ill cat on a transatlantic flight using the “support pet” angle when i was moving back to the US. Nobody knew she was there, tucked under the seat in front of me.

I realize that size prevents it being an option for most dogs, but ones that can fit in a carrier should be in one and — at the very least — dogs should be muzzled and harnessed. I don’t care if “he wouldn’t hurt a fly.” I wouldn’t plunk my cat down next to a person and expect them to be happy. Why do people expect it with dogs?

Why didn't you just pay the fee to bring a small animal with you in the cabin? Your cat doesn't have to be a "support pet."

At the time, all animals traveling to/from the uk had to fly in the hold, but it was an American airline and honored the request. So I did pay a fee ($250?). It wasn’t about being cheap. When we moved there several years before, she was in good health and flew in the hold as required.

I was under the impression that people would be pissed about any animal in the cabin (other than a legit service dog) whether it was a “support pet” or not.

She didn’t leave the carrier on the flight, and my family had the whole row — people were spared my cat and my child.

I would say that the majority of people do not have a problem with small pets in carriers on flights... as long as the pet remains in their carrier and the owner has paid the appropriate fee and doesn't claim any "emotional support" ridiculousness.

We do have a few vocal, hyper-allergic people who are dismayed at pets on flights, but that is their issue to deal with.

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Anonymous wrote:I brought my elderly, ill cat on a transatlantic flight using the “support pet” angle when i was moving back to the US. Nobody knew she was there, tucked under the seat in front of me.

I realize that size prevents it being an option for most dogs, but ones that can fit in a carrier should be in one and — at the very least — dogs should be muzzled and harnessed. I don’t care if “he wouldn’t hurt a fly.” I wouldn’t plunk my cat down next to a person and expect them to be happy. Why do people expect it with dogs?

Why didn't you just pay the fee to bring a small animal with you in the cabin? Your cat doesn't have to be a "support pet."

At the time, all animals traveling to/from the uk had to fly in the hold, but it was an American airline and honored the request. So I did pay a fee ($250?). It wasn’t about being cheap. When we moved there several years before, she was in good health and flew in the hold as required.

I was under the impression that people would be pissed about any animal in the cabin (other than a legit service dog) whether it was a “support pet” or not.

She didn’t leave the carrier on the flight, and my family had the whole row — people were spared my cat and my child.

Anonymous wrote:People are really confused here on several issues.

On most flights people are allowed to take their pets for a hefty fee. Not emotional service animals but just pet dog or cat in an airline approved stow under the seat carrier or in a crate taken with the cargo for larger dogs. I used to fly with my dog years ago pretty frequently and most people didn’t know he was there because his carrier mesh was pretty shaded. Just because I had a small dog with me doesn’t mean I was claiming him as emotional service, he’s just a pet as most dogs you see in airports.

This story is tragic and could have been prevented if the dog was taken on as just a pet and would have then been in a crate with the cargo. It sounds like the owner was worried about going that route (and rightly so because cargo hold animals need more protection and safety regulation) so he claimed service dog but he must have a mental issue to be blind to his dogs aggression and the serious consequences that occurred.

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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?

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Anonymous wrote:I agree. Pets should not be in the cabin. Not good for people with allergies.

Why don’t airlines offer some pet-free flights for people with allergies? Even before all this emotional support animal stuff, I’d often been on flights with dogs. Curious why airlines haven’t consider med that.

Anonymous wrote:I brought my elderly, ill cat on a transatlantic flight using the “support pet” angle when i was moving back to the US. Nobody knew she was there, tucked under the seat in front of me.

I realize that size prevents it being an option for most dogs, but ones that can fit in a carrier should be in one and — at the very least — dogs should be muzzled and harnessed. I don’t care if “he wouldn’t hurt a fly.” I wouldn’t plunk my cat down next to a person and expect them to be happy. Why do people expect it with dogs?

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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.”