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Originally Posted by richards6402  I fly all the time with my two girls on Allegiant to Florida. They both go in one carrier and are stuck under the seat. I pay $100 each way for them to fly which is more than I pay for my ticket. I see people with dogs sitting on their laps on the flight because they are emotional support and they fly free. My last flight, while waiting for the plane to arrive, I got them out of the carrier and had them on my lap. I had two airport employees come up to me and tell me to put them back in the carrier while 3 people had dogs and 1 person had a cat on their lap.....the difference, they were emotional support animals. I could take the easy way out and get a note from my doctor and get clearance as an emotional support animal but refuse to do it. Call me stupid, but I can't bring myself to lie just so my animals can fly free. |
Well what I call you is a person with integrity. I tell you a true story one, that made me uncomfortable, magics mom is a fully trained and certified personal assist dog for my breeders husband. He is a paraplegic. She spent much time training her lovely gal. Ok well n good, however she takes that dog on a flight to Missouri gets to fly her dog free in cabin with her, while I do the fifteen hour drive with my big boy cause I don't like cargo. She doesn't need a service dog for herself... I don't even know for sure if it is bending the rules, but even though convenient for her at least the dog did the training.
This is what I object to is folks that scam the system. I could I suppose go online and get those dummy certificates,magic is very well trained but we stopped the personal assist training due to his joint problems. Magic is trained to utility dog level of obedience, and can if need be get me up from the ground steady my walk, when I need a wheelchair pull me in it.... But I won't hurt my dog to make my life easier.