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| Above, Sierra and I. I'll take her in the RV, but not on a plane. |
Whenever I have traveled by plane to anywhere, I have never brought an animal with me. I'll take my cat Sierra on a RV trip, but not on a flight.
Apparently, there are many who do and also claim they are "emotional support animals" to avoid paying a fee to the airline.
All that may change soon.
According to the Japan Times:
NEW YORK – The days of passengers bringing their pets on airplanes as emotional-support animals could be ending.
The U.S. Department of Transportation on Wednesday proposed that only specially trained dogs qualify as service animals, which must be allowed in the cabin at no charge.
Airlines could ban emotional-support animals including untrained dogs, cats and more exotic companions such as pigs, pheasants, rabbits and snakes.
Airlines say the number of support animals has grown dramatically in recent years. They lobbied the Transportation Department to crack down on what they consider a scam — passengers who call their pets emotional-support animals to avoid pet fees that generally run more than $100 each way.
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