Weird Service Animals On Planes

But have you heard of reptiles or pigs used as support animals by people with disabilities or health conditions.

Weird service animals on planes. In May 2018 due to an uptick in strange support animals making it to 30000 feet American Airlines announced that hedgehogs would no longer be welcome on their flights. Airlines meanwhile have expressed concern about the heightened attention these animals have received and the resources airlines expend each time an unusual or untrained animal is presented for. Transportation department said passengers bringing unusual animals had eroded public trust in legitimate service animals Dexter an emotional support peacock photographed at an airport in 2018.

Here are some of the most unusual service animals. The VERY strange emotional support pets passengers have taken on planes including ducks a kangaroo and a HORSE. Emotional support animals will no longer qualify as service animals for plane flight according to the rule but psychiatric service animals will.

When it comes to service animals a dog is the most commonly used although the use of horses and monkeys has also been documented. Weird service animals on planes. Service animals are specially trained to assist their handler with a task related to a disability.

Dogs certified as service animals would still be permitted in plane cabins but service turkeys and service iguanas would be grounded under proposed rules. A customer tried to bring a baby kangaroo on the plane as a service animal a retired airline customer service agent with 18 years of experience told Business Insider. The agency said Wednesday that it was rewriting the rules partly because passengers carrying unusual animals on board eroded the public trust in legitimate service animals.

Advertisement - Continue Reading Below Airlines will be able to require passengers traveling with service animals to complete a Transportation Department form attesting to the animals training and good behavior and. As one Gawker writer said If I saw this happening in person it would not just make my trip or my month or my year it. Snakes on a Plane the movie.

Delta has a set of rules that bans snakes hedgehogs ferrets insects and sugar gliders. But there has been at least one photo taken of an adorable kangaroo buckled into an airplane seat proof on American Airlines. As the Huffington Post reported in 2016 Maureen Van Dorn found herself sat beside a large dalmatian brought on board as a support animal.