'No! We are NOT letting your emotional-support wombat on the plane!
by Carl Hiaasen, Tribune Content Agency
Jan 27, 2020
3 minutes
Regulators are finally cracking down on passengers who bring household pets on commercial flights and claim they are "emotional-support animals."
Under proposed rules unveiled recently, airlines would no longer have to accept rabbits, pigs, cats and other untrained critters that are supposedly essential to the psychological well-being of their human owners.
The scam has become a headache -- and liability risk -- for airlines. Innocent passengers and flight attendants have been bitten or otherwise injured in the main cabin
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