What's this world coming too when airlines can force a passenger to deplane just because her support pig becomes disruptive?

Not on the prohibited list wrote:

Woman removed from plane after claiming squirrel as emotional support animal

Passengers questioned how the woman got the squirrel through TSA.

In fact, as details come out, the reason seems to be that Frontier does not allow "rodents" (as squirrels are classified). The woman fully ticked the correct box ahead of time, but didn't read the details.

Passengers were forced to deplane from flight 1612 from Orlando, Fla., to Cleveland on Tuesday when the woman refused to obey a request to leave the flight with her squirrel, at which point the airline called the Orlando Police, who escorted the woman off the plane. The woman argued that she included in her reservation notes that she would be traveling with an emotional support animal - though the airline argued that she did NOT indicate that said animal would be a squirrel.

Frontier said it doesn't allow rodents on its fights.

The airline said the passenger noted in her reservation that she was bringing an emotional support animal, but she did not specify that said animal would be a squirrel.

Porky was lucky he wasn't waterboarded like me.

Porcine Scene wrote:

Seems like a good way to deter muslim terrorists.

I don't care if this is a year-old post. Lolololol

That's mot gonna end up too well when I board the same flight with my emotional support falcon.

Not on the prohibited list wrote:

Woman removed from plane after claiming squirrel as emotional support animal

Passengers questioned how the woman got the squirrel through TSA.

Someone should claim a person as an emotional support animal and try to get them to fly for free.

Good God. It really may be time to put the trigger to my head and big goodbye to this world--and I speak as a guy who loves life.

When I saw this story, I googled "service animal pig" (no quotes) and the top item was the American Mini Pig Association:

https://americanminipigassociation.com/owners/helpful-owner-articles/therapy-mini-pig/

There's a pretty interesting discussion of service animals vs. emotional support animals. Pigs apparently fall into a grey area--or a pink area, I suppose.

Q: CAN PIGS BE EMOTIONAL SUPPORT ANIMALS?

A: This is a tricky question. The short answer is, sometimes, yes. The problem lies with the “Request for Reasonable Accommodation” step. You and your physician will have to document and explain exactly why you need a pig, and not a “traditional” animal species

I may have to dig out and burn my old copy of E. B. White's CHARLOTTE'S WEB. I'm having visions of Wilbur and "What a pig!"

And there's this........

"it is a FEDERAL CRIME to fake a service animal. If you are caught, and taken before a judge, you could be fined hundreds of thousands of dollars, you could lose all social security and disability benefits, and you could even serve jail time. And you WILL LOSE YOUR PET."

I think there are truly about as many people that need "emotional" support animals as those who "need" "medical marijuana"