pacodemountainside
TUG Member
In California, the recognize "support ponies". I think that they are supposed to be miniaturized. And maybe they don't shed. But even so...
So do you feel the same toward domesticated dogs and cats? Why or why not?A neighbor has a miniature horse. it's not much bigger than a large dog. Cute, but I have to say, it still smells like a horse. Her back yard smells like a barnyard. I can't imaging letting one into a house/store or any other enclosed place meant primarily for human accommodation.
I feel the same toward domesticated pigs.
So do you feel the same toward domesticated dogs and cats? Why or why not?
I don't expect my (non-shedding) dog to be welcome in establishments where people may be sensitive or food is sold/prepared/served. I don't abide cats, so that's another thing. Actually, I thought I explained it pretty well in the first sentence of my post. Barnyard animals belong in barnyards.
I'm relucatant to make this post because this is an area that people's minds are pretty set.
However, I think that anyone who does not have a friend or relative whose life is truly enhanced by an emotional support animal has no clue what they are talking aboiut.
Yes, there are people who falsely take advantage of these rules but there are a huge number of people whose lives are amazingly improved by their emotional support animals.
I do not doubt for one moment that their lives are improved. Most people own pets (or my three little human pets for that matter), for this very reason. But that right to life improvement from an animal really needs to be confined to the home and other public spaces generally considered acceptable for animals to venture into (e.g. park, sidewalk, etc.).
I'm relucatant to make this post because this is an area that people's minds are pretty set.
However, I think that anyone who does not have a friend or relative whose life is truly enhanced by an emotional support animal has no clue what they are talking aboiut.
Yes, there are people who falsely take advantage of these rules but there are a huge number of people whose lives are amazingly improved by their emotional support animals.
The allowance of "support animals" on flights and in establishments is just plain silly. I am so dismayed at the continued sissification of America.
Wow, how totally self-centered and ignorant of the use of service animals (Dogs) and the contributions they make to a persons life with disabilities. So, hearing impaired, sight impared, and people with other medical impairments (and there are many) are nolonger suppose to travel or go to a restaurant because you thing its "Silly". Do you think it's silly that a service dog could prevent/help a person from having a seizure. Do you think PTSD service dogs are silly: tell that Veteran fortunate enough to have a service dog that it's silly and that he/she should't be flying or eating in the same restaurant as you. Is it silly that people with medical disabilites are trying to lead a normal life, the best that they can, which includes traveling on an airplane and eating in restaurants. And what about people in wheel chairs, motorized scooters, crutches, etc, is it just "silly" for them to be traveling. I suppose you think handicap parking spaces are silly too, since it takes away a parking spot that you could use.
Over the last couple of days I've noticed how extremelly outspoken some individuals here on TUG are toward other individual with medical problems/disablities and how we offend and inconvenience you.
Personally, I'd rather sit in an airplane with a beautiful quite Golden Retriver (or Lab) and get a few dog hairs on me than be on a flight with screaming wailing kids sneezing, spitting, and farting everywhere along with their inconsiderate parents that have to bring along baby carriages the size of a volkswagaon beetle and everything else the kid owns. You may not see the germs left behind by that kid, but it will get you a lot sicker than any dog hair will.
And don't get me started on inconsiderate, hypersensitive, cigarette smokers that think that the world revolves around them and we should all drop dead so that they can have their freedom to pollute and contaminate the air that we breathe and litter the ground with their disgusting cigarette butts.
Sometime you should read the Amaricans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and read about what contributions service dogs makes.
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I do not doubt for one moment that their lives are improved. Most people own pets (or my three little human pets for that matter), for this very reason. But that right to life improvement from an animal really needs to be confined to the home and other public spaces generally considered acceptable for animals to venture into (e.g. park, sidewalk, etc.).
God forbid anyone experience a living playful gentle pet pig... make sure the only contact you have with farmed animals is on your plate, dead.
For the record, eating dead animals is far more dangerous than sitting on a plane with living ones. Google it - e coil and salmonella food poisoning, antibiotic overuse in CAFOs, increased cancer and heart disease...eating dead pigs, cows,chickens, and others kill millions of humans every year. A pet pig on an airplane has yet to kill or even harm a single human.
The allowance of "support animals" on flights and in establishments is just plain silly. I am so dismayed at the continued sissification of America.
Sissification, huh?
Says the guy complaining about a minor irritant during a luxury experience.
Sounds more like you're dismayed at the fact that things change over time and that other people have different values than you have.
The "continued sissification of America" has resulted in less criminal violence, abolition of human slavery and child labor, reduction of sexist and racist policies and more. Such sissies we are.