A New Jersey woman was not allowed on board a United Airlines flight this January for attempting to bring her emotional-support peacock aboard the plane. The woman went so far as to purchase a separate ticket for her rainbow-feathered companion (Washington Post).
If you are anything like us, you’re angry at this. It seems that the vast majority of people who use an emotional-support animals are doing so for the free pet rent and the ability to go to Publix/Kroeger/Food lion with their pot-bellied pigs or flying squirrels. I know, I know, that more than just canines can be aids to those who require support, but isn’t there a limit? United changed its policy on emotional-support animals requiring increased proof after the incident.
With that, I give United Airlines a wag of the tail.
What’s that you might ask? They did the right thing. In no way do the majority of people want to sit next to a peacock the whole flight. “Excuse me sir, could you move your tail-feathers off my armrest? Its a long flight.”.
So a wag of the tail to United Airlines. And they need it after the whole Flight 3411 incident that ended with the forced removal off Dr. David Dao.
Let’s hope United sticks to peacocks and not humans. Woof!
Til’ next time.
thebestbark 
Totally agreed, and lets not forget that these ESAs require no training to be certified, while service animals go through extensive training. Because sometimes people don’t realize there is a difference, it gives service animals a bad name and allows ESAs to take advantage of laws that do not apply to them. Wag of the tail for United indeed.
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