A recent event on a US Airways flight has proven that pigs really will never fly. A women boarded a plane traveling to Connecticut with a 70 pound pig on a leash that she proceeded to tie to her armrest. It was reportedly very smelly and wandering around. The lady was permitted to do this because of a 2012 guideline that the Department of Transportation passed allowing certain animals, including pigs, to fly if they were an "emotional support animal." Despite this, because the animal was disruptive, the women was asked to leave the plane.
This comes off as a slightly discriminatory practice, considering that smelly or noisy dogs are frequently on flights. Not to mention that many people can be allergic to them. I think the Department of Transportation should re-see their current procedures for these kinds of things before they are accused of animal discrimination, as silly as that sounds.
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