Thursday, May 30, 2019

I figured something like this was going to happen, sooner or later

"Delta passenger mauled by emotional support dog files lawsuit". Think how bad it might have gone had the person been traveling with a support raccoon dog.

H/T: Ace

4 comments:

Jonah said...

What the hell is an emotional support dog.

Pets are fine but weaklings who call their dogs grandpuppies are pathetic losers who screwed up their children and now seek to substitute dogs from the pound to make themselves acceptable.

RebeccaH said...

Get off my lawn, Jonah. My daughter's dog was my "granddog" and I have a dog from the pound because all the babies in my life keep growing up and won't let me baby them anymore. So there.

As for the "emotional support" dog, stupid people aren't just trying to use dogs, they are calling anything with fur, feathers, or scales their "emotional support". If you can't get on a plane without emotional support, either drink a lot of booze beforehand, or take the damn bus. If that poor man on the plane had been mauled by a raccoon dog (which I never heard of before reading about it here), I think it would be his heirs who would be suing.

bruce said...

Yes it's not the dogs so much as the way some people make a public display of needing 'emotional support' when they should consider the safety of other people. If they're that fragile they should not be on a plane.

I had a neighbor in his 80s who was totally lost after his wife died, but cheered up heaps when they got him a small dog. He would not have dreamed of taking it on a plane though.

bruce said...

Don't know about Racoon dogs, but Archaeologists studied a Neolithic burial in Europe of a woman, a dog and a fox. They could tell that the fox had been raised on human domestic food and was a tame pet (from its teeth), the dog too but it had been used to carry heavy loads. So ancient European women had pet tame foxes, pretty amazing. There's a pic here:

https://phys.org/news/2019-02-foxes-domesticated-humans-bronze-age.html