Claim: People can fly with dogs, pot-bellied pigs, turkeys, monkeys, and miniature horses if they claim that their pets are emotional support animals.
Verdict: SUPPORTS

Retrieved passages:
title: Emotional support animal
text: aircraft to permit a person with a disability to travel with a prescribed emotional support animal, so long as they have appropriate documentation and the animal is not a danger to others and does not interfere with others (through unwanted attention, barking, inappropriate toileting, etc.). "Unusual" animals, including all snakes and other reptiles, can legally be refused. In regards to airline policies affecting persons flying with animals, most airlines charge fees and require the animal to be in a cage that can fit under the seat; if a caged animal cannot be placed under the seat, the animal flies with

title: Emotional support animal
text: pit bulls and similar breeds of dogs from being accepted as emotional support animals, after a pit bull dog traveling as an emotional support animal bit two employees. Emotional support animals are allowed to travel on airplanes without muzzles or other devices that would keep them from biting staff or passengers. Another animal people get for emotional support are cats. Cats can understand when their owner has ailments such as depression or anxiety. It all depends on the owner if they want to have a special relationship with their cat. If they do they will get the emotional support that

title: Emotional support animal
text: animals has increased the number of animals in public places where animals are normally not allowed. Multiple dangerous incidents reported in the media, such as a large emotional support dog mauling another passenger on a flight, have led to a backlash against people with disabilities, including people with well-trained service dogs. Although the concept is popular and many owners attribute improvements to their animals, there is no solid scientific evidence that untrained emotional support dogs provide any significant benefit to people with mental or emotional disabilities. Interacting with an animal may reduce perceived emotional distress for some people, but the

title: Emotional support animal
text: the luggage. With emotional assistance animals, on the other hand, they are not required to be caged, nor are people charged for flying with an emotional support animal. In 2017, a quarter million passengers brought emotional support animals with them on just Delta Air Lines. With the exceptions provided to emotional support animals, many people who do not have a mental disability have tried to bring their animals on a plane and pass them off as emotional support animals. Airlines, like Southwest and JetBlue, however, typically have policies that passengers flying with emotional support animals must follow. While an airline

title: Emotional support animal
text: scientific research is limited, of low scientific quality, and what little research exists suggests that the benefit, if any, is smaller than its proponents hoped. A small number of studies have found that emotional support animals increased their owners' distress. There is no research at all on unusual animals, such as hamsters. Requests for letters to obtain exemption from airline baggage fees or no-pet housing rules can also damage the owner's therapeutic relationship with the psychologist or other mental healthcare provider, regardless of whether the request is approved or denied. Ethically, providers of psychotherapy may choose to recommend an emotional

title: Emotional support animal
text: animal, non-fraudulently, the emotional support animal's presence must provide a significant benefit, that makes the difference between the person functioning adequately and not. Some websites scam people by printing fake certificates that claim an animal is an emotional support animal, but which have no legal value. These website have encouraged even people who are not disabled to pay a fee to buy an official-looking piece of paper, so that they can get approval to have a family pet in no-pets housing, or to get free air travel for their pet on US airlines. Since a 2003 rule change by the

title: Emotional support animal
text: passengers with allergies to those animals. (It does not mention whether emotional support animals should be treated like trained service animals or like household pets in such an instance.) Passengers who are allergic to dogs, cats, or other animals are usually seated in a different part of the airplane, and may be denied boarding, removed from flights, moved to other flights, or required to provide a letter from a licensed physician, dated with the last 10 days, saying that even if they are exposed to animal dander, they will not die before the flight ends. The required documentation for US-based

title: Emotional support animal
text: properly vaccinated, in good health, and has been trained to behave well in public. While there do not seem to be any cases dealing with the issue of multiple emotional support animals, the basic requirements for this accommodation would be the same. Thus, if a disabled person claimed to need multiple emotional support animals, he or she would need documentation supporting this claim from his or her psychologist or other licensed healthcare professional. The practitioner would need to provide documentation that each support animal alleviated some symptom of the disability. As of 2018, Delta airlines limits free travel for emotional

title: Emotional support animal
text: situations. To be afforded protection under United States federal law, the owners of emotional support animals must meet the federal definition of disability and must have a letter from their healthcare providers stating that they are being treated for a disabling condition and that their emotional support animals improve or benefit some component of the disability. Small dogs are the most common type of emotional support animal. In terms of obtaining exemptions from housing and transportation laws, emotional support animals must be a "usual" type, which excludes snakes and other reptiles, ferrets, rodents, and spiders. In 2018, Delta Airlines banned

title: Emotional support animal
text: support animals to one animal per ticketed passenger. The main controversies are the behavior of some animals, harms to other people, the problem of widespread fraud, and the open scientific question about whether emotional support animals provide significant benefit. An emotional support animal may cause problems that a trained assistance dog may not. For instance, due to the lack of training, an emotional support animal may bark at and smell other people, whereas service dogs are trained not to do so. People with a different type of invisible disability – allergy to animal dander – have suffered from allergic attacks

title: When pigs fly
text: Flying pigs!" An identical phrase, used to express impossibilities, exists in Romanian, "Când o zbura porcul", literally meaning "When the pig shall fly"; an equivalent also implying an animal is "La Paștele cailor", literally: "on horses' Easter". Similar phrases in English include "", the Latin expression "to the Greek calends", and "and monkeys might fly out of my butt", popularized in Wayne's World skits and movies. They are examples of adynata. In Finnish, the expression ""kun lehmät lentävät"" (when cows fly) is used because of its alliteration. In French, the most common expression is ""quand les poules auront des dents""

title: Emotional support animal
text: is allowed to require a passenger traveling with an emotional support animal to provide written documentation that the animal is an emotional support animal, the same is not true for a service animal. The rights of passengers with emotional disabilities to travel with an animal are specifically enshrined in US law; the rights of passengers who are allergic to those emotional support animals do not have specific protections, and often feel that their right to a safe flight is treated as less important. The Federal Aviation Administration's advice to airlines prioritizes passengers with service animals, but not household pets, over

title: Emotional support animal
text: the person needs. Being attached to an animal can help relieve loneliness and can help a person's well being. There are no requirements for training emotional support animals. Emotional support animals typically have no training beyond what would be expected for the same type of pet. Emotional support animals perform no tasks other than what a pet of the same type would do – including unwanted behaviors, such as defecating in inappropriate places, growling and barking at people, or biting them. Both poorly trained emotional support animals and poorly trained pets that are being fraudulently passed off as emotional support

title: Emotional support animal
text: animals represent a threat to the health, safety, and function of both people and trained service animals. To qualify for an emotional support animal in the US, the owners of emotional support animals must have an emotional or mental disability that is certified by a mental health professional such as a psychiatrist, psychologist, or other licensed mental health care provider. These are often invisible disabilities, because they are normally not visible. The owner's mental health impairment must be substantial enough to produce disability, rather than discomfort or a desire to have a pet. Furthermore, for the provider to certify the

title: Mary E. Peters
text: 5, 2008 to report that Highway Trust Fund payments to states, including her native Arizona, would be cut back because federal fuel tax collections were dropping. While she was Secretary of DOT a rule was passed stating that dogs, cats, miniature horses, pigs as well as monkeys could be considered emotional support animals, and therefore could be taken by commercial airlines in the cabin. Mary married Terry Peters, a marine, at age 17. She and Terry have three children together. In 2013, Terry was convicted of sexually abusing a seven-year-old girl, and he was sentenced to fourteen years in prison.

title: Flying monkeys (psychology)
text: Flying monkeys (psychology) Flying monkeys is a phrase used in popular psychology mainly in the context of narcissistic abuse. They are people who act on behalf of a narcissist to a third party, usually for an abusive purpose. The phrase has also been used to refer to people who act on behalf of a psychopath for a similar purpose. An alternative word is apaths. Abuse by proxy (or proxy abuse) is a closely related or synonymous concept. Flying monkeys are distinct from enablers. Enablers just allow or cover for the narcissist's (abuser's) own bad behavior. The phrase, originally winged monkeys,

title: Flying monkeys (psychology)
text: is derived from L. Frank Baum's classic children's novel "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz". The wicked witch sent them to carry out her attacks. Flying monkeys can be anyone who believes the narcissist's fake persona including the narcissist's spouse, child, friend, sibling or cousin. According to Atkinson, flying monkeys are usually unwittingly manipulated people who believe the smears about the victim although they may be another narcissist working in tandem. According to Vaknin, proxy abusers can be: The flying monkey does the narcissist’s bidding to inflict additional torment to the target. It may consist of spying, spreading gossip, threatening, painting

title: Emotional support animal
text: airlines is a letter, printed on a healthcare provider's letterhead that meets all of the following requirements: Writing letters such as this is considered extratherapeutic administrative paperwork, rather than professional care. The specific requirement to have a letter from a healthcare provider that is providing treatment to the passenger excludes all "certificates" or letters from websites that sell unofficial registries without providing professional care to the passenger. Some airlines, including United and Delta, additionally require passengers traveling with emotional support animals to complete forms provided by the airline, at least 48 hours before departure, that certify that the animal is

title: Emotional support animal
text: triggered by emotional support animals. Although there is general support for individuals being able to have pets, and widespread belief that owning an animal makes pet owners happy, there is concern about people abusing the system by acquiring an emotional support animal even though they are legally not considered disabled. According to one survey, Americans generally believe that a majority of emotional support animals serve a legitimate need, but the more experience the respondents had with service animals and emotional support animals, the more aware they were of abuse. The prevalence of abuse and the rising popularity of emotional support

title: Emotional support animal
text: walk), while emotional support animals receive no specific training. (It therefore stands that in the setting of mental illness, whether or not the animal is a "service animal" vs. an Emotional Support Animal would hinge on whether the dog is formally trained to do something specific to mitigate the mental illness.) Any animal that provides support, well-being, comfort, or aid, to an individual through companionship, non-judgmental positive regard, and affection may be regarded as an emotional support animal. In the US, disabled people with emotional support animals are exempted from certain rules against having animals in most housing and travel