Originally Posted by
WWads
This whole "comfort" animal thing is out of control. If you don't have a legitimate physical limitation, your animal needs to stay in a carrier, or at your house.
Too bad the airlines are too cowardly to try to stop the practice. If I was allergic to dogs and saw one sitting in my seat, I'd demand that the dog and its owner be offloaded. Then again, people with "comfort" animals seem to have more passenger rights than the rest of us, so I'd probably be the one left at the gate.
I would demand that the seat be disinfected, and the dog be kept confined somewhere far away from me.
Or I'd demand that the airline give me a written statement that it is ignoring my allergies (which I would then use any time they suggested that I avoid eating nuts of peanuts because of someone else's allergies).