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.

Weird service animals on planes. 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. 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. Emotional support animals will no longer qualify as service animals for plane flight according to the rule but psychiatric service animals will.

Disability advocates have voiced concerns that the use of these unusual service animals on aircraft erodes the publics trust and confidence in service animals the NPRM states. Unlike service animals emotional support animals ESAs are not required to perform. GETTY IMAGES Tales of flights filled with service peacocks service rabbits service monkeys service turkeys and service iguanas have become an internet cottage industry.

EMOTIONAL support animals can now be banned from plane cabins after the US government ruled only service dogs can fly with their owners. Although commonly grouped together service animals and emotional support animals are very different. Airlines believed passengers abused the rule to bring a menagerie.

Here are some of the strangest animals people have attempted successfully or not to bring on planes. Dogs certified as service animals would still be permitted in plane cabins but service turkeys and service iguanas would be grounded under proposed rules. New gallery on Bored Panda shows strangest support animals taken on planes.

One can only hope to be seated next to an adorable animal such as. 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. The VERY strange emotional support pets passengers have taken on planes including ducks a kangaroo and a HORSE.

The decision which aims to settle tensions between carriers and passengers who bring their pets on board for free could earn airlines an extra 60million a year. Dogs are the most common service animals assisting people in many different ways since at least 1927. These prickly little pals may be deemed emotional support animals by their owners but theyre still Erinaceomorpha non grata on some planes.