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3. There is a vast difference between Service Animals and Emotional Support Animals
Sat Jun 23, 2018, 08:39 AM
Jun 2018

My daughter has a service animal, a dog, and works constantly with animal to ensure it fills the role as a service animal completely and safely. She gets angry with folks who pretend their pets are service animals, buy them ESA vests online, and claim these animals are safe. An Emotional Support Animal is untrained, unqualified, and does not go through the selection process for disposition that real Service Animals go through. The article clearly states that the bite episode occured with an ESA pitbull. ESA's are not trained, not qualified and should be banned as companion animals on flights. By the way, Service Animals cannot be discriminated against, but ESA's can because they are not recognized as being in the same category as Service Animals.

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