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Thanks For Reading,
Marsha Brown,
Publisher and Editor-in-Chief
Parker County Today
Both Delta and JetBlue recently
released a press alert stating that
pit bulls are no longer allowed as
emotional support animals on their
flights. I love pit bulls as much as
anybody but, seriously? The way
some people react to them would
make flying far more stressful for me
as a dog owner. They probably don’t
belong on a flight.
In 2016, a man found himself at
odds with the airline he was trying
to fly when he brought along his
emotional support marmoset. Airline
officials went ape! Pun intended. The
trouble wasn’t the little monkey, but
rather his master’s failure to produce
the proper paperwork.
The “misunderstanding” was
resolved when the plane landed in
Las Vegas, but unfortunately the
monkey master was not allowed to
fly back to his home base because
Frontier Airlines slapped him on the
no-fly list.
Frontier Airlines recently changed
its policy on support animals, only
allowing cats or dogs, and only
allowing one animal per passenger.
A few years ago, a pot-bellied
pig accompanied a woman as
an emotional support animal but was
booted out, along with his owner
after he became “disruptive.” He was
reportedly tied to an armrest, pacing
back and forth.
A woman who was a PTSD
sufferer traveling from one end of
North Carolina to the other created
something of a “flap” by bringing
her emotional support animal on a
small plane for a short flight.
Her feathery support buddy was
a duck dubbed “Daniel Turducken
Stinkerbutt.” The traveler had actu-
ally received certification to take Mr.
Stinkerbutt with her onboard flights as
an emotional support pet.
The airline never cried, “fowl,” but
I’m guessing his presence was some-
what disruptive to the other passengers
and the crew — especially if he lived
up to his name.
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