#24: Man’s Best Friend

One time I was on a flight to Portland and I ended up next to a woman with a service animal. As I am allergic to dogs, I was a little worried about how the flight would go, but her dog was well trained and stayed under the seats, and we ended up having a great conversation about service animals, which she trained.

The thing that stands out most to me from that conversation was what she said about emotional support animals: that many people with service animals don’t really like them, because when someone shows up with an emotional support iguana, and it bites another passenger, that just makes it even harder to get people to take support animals seriously, despite them often being very medically necessary. The point I’m getting at is, don’t be a jerk and bring your emotional support peacock on a plane.