"Emotional Support Animal" on my flight flies for free. Seriously?
Aug 23, 2013, 4:45 am
#76
Join Date: Sep 2004
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Mrs. Tacostuff has a diagnosed allergy to dogs. Let's say someone sat next to her with a dog (whether as a carry-on or emotional support). If she mentioned the allergy to the FA, what would happen? Would the person with the dog be required to move, or would they try to make my wife move?
Not to sound harsh - but how someone's allergy is the dog's owner problem? Don't you think in the airplane with 100's of people closely packed there is absence of dog's allergen protein on clothing without a dog present.
Kind people may accommodate your problem but they do not have to.
Bottom line could be: take the meds or change the seat.
Aug 23, 2013, 5:23 am
#77
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Mrs. Tacostuff has a diagnosed allergy to dogs. Let's say someone sat next to her with a dog (whether as a carry-on or emotional support). If she mentioned the allergy to the FA, what would happen? Would the person with the dog be required to move, or would they try to make my wife move?
Aug 23, 2013, 5:37 am
#78
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I am sure my clothes used to have plenty of allergens from a dog and still have from a cat. In a pet household I am sure that despite washing clothes as soon as you get them out of the washer/dryer they get exposed and in a world where many people have pets your wife will get exposed to dog allergens on every single flight. Hope she takes her medicine.
Aug 23, 2013, 9:20 am
#79
Join Date: Jul 2010
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This is just what I tried to explain to my wife. That people much attached to their dogs believe that they and their dog belong wherever they want to be. And that if anyone else does not like it -- no matter what the reason -- even at five miles high in a thin tube packed together, with everyone strapped down (save the dog), hurtling along at 550mph, for hours on end ... then it is their (that is to say the person who somehow imagined that paying for their ticket entitled them to a usable seat) problem.
Rather than fight among ourselves, I wish that US would state policy more clearly. I think that if the policy they stated matched the policy as it appears "on the ground" (which is to say in the air) the howls from the non-canines would be so great as to force a change. This dealing with it (suffering it) "on the fly" (literally!) does not make sense to me.
Rather than fight among ourselves, I wish that US would state policy more clearly. I think that if the policy they stated matched the policy as it appears "on the ground" (which is to say in the air) the howls from the non-canines would be so great as to force a change. This dealing with it (suffering it) "on the fly" (literally!) does not make sense to me.
Oct 12, 2013, 8:16 am
#82
Join Date: Jul 2006
Posts: 2,188
If I'm allergic to dogs, can I keep the drug-sniffing dogs in the airport away from me and my bags?