It is the girl who must get herself certified in need of an emotional support animal. Then the animal must meet the vaccination requirements.
I don’t see why she’d get a single. My daughter would love to room with someone who had a pet.
Calling someone “legit crazy but not mentally ill” is highly offensive. On many counts. Do you know if she does or does not have mental health issues? Given the single patent’s issues, she might well have MH issues. To call her crazy is just inappropriate.
@gouf78 I am not fond of hamsters OR rats, but cruelty is cruelty.
BTW, you have the wrong decade for goldfish-swallowing, a revolting fad.
The idea that the existence of one type of stupidity and cruelty excuses the existence of another is what is “curious” to me.
FWIW, the article I read called it a “replacement rodent,” and they might have been quoting her lawyer.
@jym636 -
I have known this girl for years and I stand by my description. She has no mental illness, she is “crazy like a fox.” She is attempting to manipulate the ESA system to get to bring her dog to college. Either re-home the dog or pay the differential for a private room if the school allows pets.
Just last month I filled out a 4 page form for a college girl who wants a single room. I’ve known her for a year, so I had no difficulty completing the form, nor did I object to doing so. She’s hoping for a single in a suite.
My point is that these forms require knowledge of the person. I hope texhmom99’s gal can’t manipulate someone to support her. OTOH, who would want to room with her? She may be doing future roommates a favor.
She sounds like a real gem, @techmom99 . But being a master manipulator doesn’t rule out mental health issues. As a friend says, sometimes a dog can have ticks AND fleas.
Enjoy! Plenty of ESAs (fake) made the list.
Another ESA incident, where a girl tried to pet a dog and got bitten.
That’s just terrible!!
Dogs need to be muzzled.
The child was injured after it approached the dog after the owner told her not to.
Doesn’t matter. If you take a dog that shouldn’t be approached by strangers, don’t take it. You’re still responsible for the dog. Muzzle it or better yet leave it at home where it belongs.
Was there a right decade to do that ever?
Dog’s teeth scraped? What does that mean?
Don’t put your hands where they don’t belong. Just like I have to tell men on planes to get their elbows off my breasts and their legs away from touching me.
Anyway I have to stop reading this thread. I had a nightmare about someone bringing a polar bear on a plane.
It means blood was drawn, put no puncture wound.
Not a reasonable comparison. A full-grown man feeling entitled to touch a woman is not the same thing as an excited child touching a dog when told not to. And even in the case of the adult man and woman, responding with a physical assault would not be justified in most cases of unwanted touch.
A dog that can’t control itself in such a situation should not be on a plane.
Agree with above. I can’t wait for Mar 1, when some of the airlines institute more stringent rules about “ESA’s”.
It’s not fair to a dog to put it in that kind of position: crammed into a small space with a large number of strangers, unable to move or get away from a person approaching. Just imagine the smells and sensations and stress the dog is experiencing! That is why real service dogs require extensive training. And plenty of perfectly nice dogs wash out, because they just don’t have the temperament for it.
If the person told the child not to pet the dog, they must have known it might not go well. Ideally it shouldn’t have been there at all. At the very least, it should have been muzzled, for its own sake.
I wonder how old the girl is? With little kids, things can happen in a flash, and they often don’t listen. Either that, or a parent wasn’t paying sufficient attention. I hope she doesn’t develop a fear of dogs as a result.
“And plenty of perfectly nice dogs wash out, because they just don’t have the temperament for it.”
Some friends had a service dog reject. It was the most obedient, calm dog I’ve ever met and made me realize how skilled service dogs are if this was what a reject was like.
The child was six years old.
There are plenty of other reasons dog owners don’t let strangers touch their dog.