Horsing Around Southwest Airlines
Good news for some of you people, Southwest Airlines will now allow you to take your Emotional Support Pony on flights.
Come September 17, people will be able to carry miniature horses onboard Southwest flights as trained service animals, according to airline officials.
Officials announced the policy change, via a statement on its website on Tuesday. In the statement, officials name miniature horses, along with dogs and cats, as some of the most common service animals that will be accepted onboard. Passengers, however, will need to be able to provide credible verbal assurance that the animal is a trained service animal.
In addition, the company announced other changes, such as formally accepting Psychiatric Support Animals (PSAs) as trained service animals, after accepting them informally as such in the past, and will also limit each passenger to one Emotional Support Animal.
Passengers with an ESA will, according to the statement, still need to present a complete, current letter from a medical doctor or licensed mental health professional on the day of departure.
What kind of Mental Health Professional gives someone a “note” to take a horse on a plane? My .45 1911 provides me with all kinds of emotional support, where do I get my note? Please, I am not anti-quadrupedalism or prejudice against those who identify with a pronograde posture as a means of terrestrial locomotion. Some quadrupeds serve a valuable and much-appreciated function. A few even give me that warm fuzzy feeling.
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I am going to file a complaint against Southwest Airlines for excluding NORMAL sized horses such as Quarter Horses and Shires from their list of service horses.
Unfair, unfair, unfair!
My emotional support Clydesdale needs to fly with me.
Just for the hell of it.
Emotional support Beer. That’s what I need.
And as for this commercial. Just wow.
Can your quarter horse detect an epileptic seizure
one hour before it happens. Many miniature horses
can! (not miniature ponies!!!!) Just as some
but not all dogs have the ability to be “service
dogs”, meaning they actually perform a service like our daughter’s dog bringing her test kit to her when her blood sugar is too high or too low as a result of her being a “brittle” type 1 diabetic. Dogs either have this instinct naturally or they do not. They can be trained for other things if they have the instinct already. Laugh all you want but I’ll bet some
mini horses have saved lives just like some service dogs have and I stress the word “service”. People have almost ruined things for people in real need by their crazy ideas about ESA’s and therapy animals.
Read the Federal ADA (American Disabilities Act) before you start talking about a subject on
which you are not educated. It is not a long read. Do you know that DOGS AND MINIATURE HORSES are the only animals recogonized by the
ADA as SERVICE ANIMALS……..No, not cats.
Great. Just great. And when the horse craps in the aisle, I’m sure no one will mind. I wonder what genius came up with this policy. You just know it will work well, so well that if I were that genius, I’d be updating my resume now.
Terrific news for all those people for whom a service dog just isn’t good enough.
Did we already miss the announcement of the day pigs fly?
I am a medical doctor.
I would be glad to write you a note to bring your .45 on the flight.
Frangible ammo only!
Hahahaha! I thought the same thing!
How about a SBR AR? Something in .300 BO with a can, a red dot, a nice duracoat multicam-type paint job so it doesn’t have that ‘evil black gun’ triggering effect…
If your weapons is painted pink, how can it possibly be viewed as a threat?
That gives new meaning to the phrase “trigger warning”….
Excellent! Perhaps I will soon be able to take my emotional support wolverine on a flight….
I want my Emotional Support Skunk with me if I have to get on a plane, EVER!
Emotional support lingerie model, with an Estonian accent and big beautiful, round…eyes. The prettiest eyes you’ve ever seen.
I keep trying to get mine to come home with me, but something something restraining order. Damn VA.
Okay, okay, my emotional support clone of Michael Biehn in his prime…. And no argumentation about it. Period.
Let’s not forget the emotional support Honey Badger. I hear they are really sweet when confined in a flimsy nylon carrier under your seat. Also, what about support snakes; let’s not be species-ist. Yeah, snakes on a plane.
I have an emotional support Yak.
I’m hoping they will accommodate Bustanka since she goes everywhere I do.
Its been an emotionally draining week. Thankfully, Hondo has been chasing TSO around the country. Seriously, TSO needs constant supervision. If there is an afterlife…Jonn will stop laughing at those two sometime in the next millennium.
I have been recharging my emotional batteries with Basil Hayden and Colleen McMurphy.
Tour of Duty and Alien/Aliens and Troy.
I gotta have something.
Ah, yes… Dana Delaney! She did a movie years ago called “Exit to Eden” with Rosie O’Fat and Dan Aykroyd. She plays a dominatrix… had one of the guys on the set pick out her “special wardrobe”, told him to pick out what he would like to see his wife wearing.
Eventually the scammers are going to force the Feds to come up with some sort of certification process for service animals, much to the dismay of the whiners who sue on ADA rights all the time.
All it does is make those folks who benefit from a service animal look like fucking fakers as well. Without certification and without any real ability to ask questions about the animal scammers are rampant everywhere, I deal with liars every month regarding their family pet with a vest slapped on and called a service animal…it’s obvious within minutes the people are full of shit, but my liability for litigation limits my ability to address the situation until the animal takes a shit in my business…which is fucking awesome for my staff and myself…
These days when I see a service animal I think the same thing I do when I see someone wearing military gear, are these just more fucking liars…which is really sad because I would rather see the animal and know someone is being helped instead of seeing the animal and thinking here’s another fucktard gaming the system.
Where does this end?
I require a 40 gallon tank for my emotional support piranhas. Airlines must accommodate my m̶e̶n̶t̶a̶l̶ ̶i̶l̶l̶n̶e̶s̶s̶ needs.
I’d like to have an emotional support wombat….
I’ll see your wombat and raise you one capybara.
Go gerbil or don’t go at all.
Wasn’t it an emotional support gerbil that woman claimed she was forced to flush down the toilet to get on a plane?
No, it was a hamster. http://www.foxnews.com/travel/2018/02/08/spirit-airlines-employee-told-student-to-flush-emotional-support-hamster-down-toilet-student-alleges.html
She really needs it for emotional support, cause she had such an attachment to it she literally flushed it down a toilet on a whim. Very convincing.
In most cases, if you hit a wombat with your car, your car will be the casualty!!
These animals are like fishing lures for a lawsuit.
An emotional support gorilla would be awesome.
Bet he would get to set wherever he wanted.
I bet they set him by the exit window after asking him if he would be willing to assist other passengers in the event of an emergency.
Clyde, the Orangutan from ‘Every Which Way But Loose’ may be available as an emotional support Orang.
Left turn Clyde.
Gorillas are too large, but a support chimp who can eat your seatmate’s face would be apropos. Although, I would like to see the proverbial 900 lb. gorilla on a plane.
How long will it be until I can bring along my emotional support honey badger?
Cause you know, honey badger don’t give a shit.
Can I bring my emotional support doll?
She’s very quiet.
Cerainly, but please do cover those places where you usually apply the jelly.
“I had a pony!”
Man I’m digging that Tasmanian Devil… that looks like one mean ass critter…
I want to bring my emotional support Cheata with me, she won’t eat much?
I wouldn’t want to play cards with her… cause she’s a cheetah…
🙂
^^^ this 😂
I propose that you can only use your state animal as a support critter.
In my case, while this omnivore loves digging holes, at least he won’t “Badger” you.
My state is__________________?
So does the TSA now get to anal probe all of these critters for contraband/explosives?
My state animal is a Chicago Politician though.
Another reason NOT to fly southwest…..
Since they herd you onto the plane, with no assigned seating, like a bunch of bovines, I concur.
I want my emotional support headbanger band to ride for free. And my emotional support gigolo. And no cheap seats, either.
So how soon can I start bringing my Emotional Support Tasmanian Devil with me?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iyvPjn2m240
Right away. Just don’t get him all wound up.
I was so excited about the possibility of a Tasmanian Devil support animal that I posted my comment in the wrong box (above):
“Man I’m digging that Tasmanian Devil… that looks like one mean ass critter…”
And when the asshole for whom a regular dog wasn’t good enough, is asked to clean up a ten pound dump, what then. You know the entitled buttwipe will say it’s not their job. This is pure bullshit. Get a fucking dog or stay the fuck home. Asshole wimps.
Naw, it’ll be pure horseshit.
This is great as long as there is no “Horsing” around during the flight. I wonder if they allow Horses in the departure lounge to pony up to the bar for a brewskie or two.
I say hook a bridle up to the beverage cart and put him to work.
I can’t wait to see Mr. Hands join the mile high club!
So, if I understand this, a cellist can be denied a paid seat for her cello but a horse is just dandy. I gotta be missing something.
Just call it an “emotional support cello”. Problem solved!
Anyone else read this and assume it was one of Ex-PH2s duffleblogs?
Where the hell is the thing gonna sit? A miniature horse is still a pretty damned big animal.
Yes I did. Even went back to check the by line. Read it again thinking WTF? and now thinking YGBFSM. Where will it all end?
Well, I look at it this way: if they’re going to get snippy about it, I will take my Emotional Support Marine with me and they can just argue with him.
What about my allergies to animals? What if I have a breakout because of it, can I use southwest?
Avid southwest flyer isn’t this too far? There is no room, what if it kicks someone?
Break out? What about those with allergies who go into respiratory arrest instead of merely irritating hives? Life threatening response to air travel is pretty serious stuff. And simply sitting in a seat previously occupied by a service animal can be deadly. (Bad enough to have to put up with all the various smells folks drown themselves in.)
Oh, well. Airlines can no longer serve peanuts because somebody somewhere might have a negative reaction for failing to read the bag before consuming them. Stupid.
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Wonder of one could bring an “emotional support stripper”?……
Will the muzzles be allowed to take aboard their favorite sexual relief goat or camel? I don’t want to discriminate against our brethren from the Arab world. I think a sexual relief goat or camel would be OK, but would draw the line if they wanted to take aboard a sexual relief 6 y/o boy. Just my thoughts on the subject … your thoughts may differ.
So, in summary, goat OK, 6 y/o boy not OK.
/s
I concur, that is a very civilized distinction. But too be totally culturally sensitive, maybe the comfort/support bacchi boyz will be permitted when in Arab airspace or on Muzz-Air International.
I nominate the young lady riding the camel (above) to be my support animal… after she leaves the camel at the kennel and takes a shower.