flying with your dog posing as a service dog

[lippy]

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Is there a way to make a bomb out of a live dog?

There. Now the office of homeland security is going to ban dogs on planes because of the terrorist threat.

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AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH.

[Lazy Meatball]

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my dog means the world to me. if i was 100% certain of her safety and confident in the airline's ability to get her back to me, i would not be considering this plan. but the fact is that i can't count on the airlines to ensure my dog's safety.

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If you're dog meant the world to you, you wouldn't be flying overseas where you have to subject a dog to the stress of air travel. Just admit that you are being selfish with respect to the other travelers on the plane as well as your own dog's comfort.

[RiverFenix]

I think its great and I wish there would be more bizare yet useful tips like this in OOT.

[ryanj247]

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my dog means the world to me. if i was 100% certain of her safety and confident in the airline's ability to get her back to me, i would not be considering this plan. but the fact is that i can't count on the airlines to ensure my dog's safety.

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If you're dog meant the world to you, you wouldn't be flying overseas where you have to subject a dog to the stress of air travel. Just admit that you are being selfish with respect to the other travelers on the plane as well as your own dog's comfort.

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the reason i'm flying is that i'm moving. i'm taking my dog with me, tyvm.

[grinin]

I ran into this once when I was a desk clerk at a small midscale motel in college 10 years ago..... We are very busy and this woman comes in the lobby with a dog that looked somewhat like a Scotty, on a 10' leash. It proceeds to bark/growl incessantly. While she is standing at the counter I have a guest come in the front door to get coffee and it seriously sounds like the dog is about to take a chunk out of him. Woman continues to ask all kinds of stupid questions during which time a couple girls wrapped in towels from the pool open the door. They never even make it over the threshold before Cujo goes berserk. Now I am getting irritated. This job really doesn't pay that much but you can get a lot of studying done during the slow hours and there are a few other perks and this damn dog just ran off a couple of the best.

It was then that I asked if she could control her dog or put him in the car as we really did not allow pets in the lobby. She became irate and said something like "this is a hearing ear dog and he can go anywhere I go just like a seeing eye dog with a blind person". I commented that her dog was disturbing the other patrons and it seemed odd that a highly trained dog was so agressive. She claimed that he was trained to become agitated whenever anyone approached her from behind. I explained that barking/growling seemed kind of stupid for the average deaf person especially when the damn dog was doing it constantly. It was then that she came unglued, asking for a manager, threatening to sue for discrimination, etc. btw, she never seemed to have any problem hearing me throughout the ordeal.

[ryanj247]

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I ran into this once when I was a desk clerk at a small midscale motel in college 10 years ago..... We are very busy and this woman comes in the lobby with a dog that looked somewhat like a Scotty, on a 10' leash. It proceeds to bark/growl incessantly. While she is standing at the counter I have a guest come in the front door to get coffee and it seriously sounds like the dog is about to take a chunk out of him. Woman continues to ask all kinds of stupid questions during which time a couple girls wrapped in towels from the pool open the door and never even make it over the threshold before Cujo goes berserk. Now I am getting irritated. This job really doesn't pay that much but you can get a lot of studying done during the slow hours and there are a couple other perks and this damn dog just ran off a couple of the best.

It was then that I asked if she could control her dog or put him in the car as we really did not allow pets in the lobby. She became irate and said something like "this is a hearing ear dog and he can go anywhere I go just like a seeing eye dog with a blind person". I commented that her dog was disturbing the other patrons and it seemed odd that a highly trained dog was so agressive. She claimed that he was trained to become agitated whenever anyone approached her from behind. I explained that barking/growling seemed kind of stupid for the average deaf person especially when the damn dog was doing it constantly. It was then that she came unglued, asking for a manager, threatening to sue for discrimination, etc. btw, she never seemed to have any problem hearing me throughout the ordeal.

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lol. yes, i would be much less inclined to consider this if i wasn't so confident that my dog will be very calm and not at all annoying.

[Dids]

Seems like the risk/reward of him in a carrier in cargo probably is a better bet than some shennigans related to bringing him on the plane and sitting with you.

[mbillie1]

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Worst case they let him board, since that impacts the lives of 100 other people negatively.

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It's a dog, dude. Now if it was a retarded guy drooling on his seat, that'd be different.

[ryanj247]

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Seems like the risk/reward of him in a carrier in cargo probably is a better bet than some shennigans related to bringing him on the plane and sitting with you.

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i dunno...if i try to bring her in the cabin with me, and they don't buy my story, then i'll just have to check her into cargo. so it seems to me that i have nothing to lose, and everything to gain, by trying.

i'm absolutely not worried at all about my dog causing any trouble once she gets on the plane.

[Duke]

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Worst case they let him board, since that impacts the lives of 100 other people negatively.

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It's a dog, dude. Now if it was a retarded guy drooling on his seat, that'd be different.

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I don't have to smell or listen to drool.