A long standing scam is about to come to an end:
The Transportation Department issued a final rule Wednesday that aims to settle years of tension between airlines and passengers who bring their pets on board for free by saying they need them for emotional support.
For years, the department required airlines to allow animals with passengers who had a doctor’s note saying they needed the animal for emotional support. Airlines believed passengers abused the rule to bring a menagerie of animals on board including cats, turtles, pigs and in one case, a peacock.
Let’s see how many of these “emotionally challenged” folks are wiling to cough up $125 each way to fly their “necessary support companion”.
Bad news for my therapy Shoebill.
Since the airlines are so broke…
Wouldn’t be surprised to see them charging for air you breathe.
Just another hidden fee in the bill…
$125 is still way too cheap…….. it’s still a lot cheaper than shipping the animal so people will still do it
Agreed … and just wait until a Democrat supermajority Federal Government forces Universal Obamakkare to pay for it. Err … we taxpayers pay for it.
Why have I become so cynical so suddenly? Geeeee … let me think?
So my support Boa……………………….
So, does a drag queen need a support boa?
BA, think anaconda …………
They killed my Snow Snake…
It melted!
Wahaaaa….sniffle, sniffle.
I think you missed the joke…. Boa? Feathered? Drag queen?
Maybe it was too early in the day…..
Sorry, just put away my big hulking She-man costume at Halloween.
$125 for my emotional support pony…now I need a second emotional support pony. Waaaahhhh.
Mother was legally blind for the last twenty years of her life, though she coped extremely well. At one point, the grands were after to get a “seeing eye pony”. She didn’t, but would have been fun to watch.
Guys, I need my support spitting cobra. Life is too difficult without.
And my support skunk.
Do those critters need to be seen? I mean, one could fly and claim they had no visible means of support. (Ta-dum tish!)
So if my wife self identifies as an emotional support cocker spaniel she can ride for free? Life in the 21st century sure is confusing.
Does she fit under the seat?
Maybe 50 years ago when we were first married Grumps
years of wokizm out the window and into cargo
This is the US Transport Department, not Canadadada.
Think they’ll have the balls to follow the lead?
The fake service animal credentials are a dime a dozen. https://assistancedogregistry.com/
You always see them at Costco with their noses stuck in the food displays.
If common sense comes to Transport Kanuckistan, watch for the Federal and Provincial Human Rights Tribunals to be putting in lots of overtime.
So, my support grizzly b’ar will be fine?! He makes me feel safe; I don’t care about how he makes everyone else feel terrified!!!
The above is courtesy of a cartoon I saw that amused me. This was after new owners bought a unit in the absolutely no pets complex my Mother lived in; sent us all an obnoxious letter demanding acceptance for the animals the female needed; sent us all some ‘justifying’ screed from a support animal agency that claimed they were government-licenced and that support animals were akin legally to guide dogs, neither of which was true; and finally took the owners corporation all the way up to the Human Rights Commission, surprisingly losing at every step… Mum died in the interim, and I sold the unit. But any set I have against “support animals’ is partly from this matter…
I would not mind paying the $125 to have my emotional support beaver with me.
Life isn’t fair, I tried taking my support UnMe (a pet rock) on a flight and they told me to check it in, yet others get to take their pets with them.
I remember when pet rocks were popular. The fact that they were convinced me that the majority of people had completely flipped their wigs. That’s why I’m not surprised that so many sheeple are accepting the phony-baloney plague.
Heh.
Bwahahahahahaha!