I mentioned this woman was committing Service Animal Fraud, and you asked:
“Is she? Do we know that this animal does not bring her emotional support?”
Service Animals AREN’T FOR EMOTIONAL SUPPORT, and you’re conflating two things. A service animal is specially trained to help the less able; Emotional Support Animals are just wackadoos insisting their pekingese, or squirrel, is the only thing keeping them together. Which may or may not be true, but you DO NOT GET TO FLY WITH WHATEVER YOU LIKE.
If you want to have an animal that gives you emotional support, lovely. That doesn’t mean you get to take it everywhere you goddamn want to, because this is not the land of ‘do as you like’; this is the land of 'we’ve all got to get along, so no, no squirrels on your own say-so."
Sympathy without reason is idiotic weakness; reason without sympathy is cold arrogance. I’m not calling for an end to Service Animals. I’m asking for people to not slap a name on a pet and suggest it’s trained, required, or medically necessary.
