Comments on: Comfort Animals

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 04:43:30 +0000

Laugh all you want but there are situations where comfort animals can do far more than modern technology and are blessings in their ability to allow people to function. For years I couldn’t drive because of a panic disorder and the fact that any and every drug combo they tried either didn’t help stop them or had such extreme side effects that I couldn’t function on them. It was hell on earth until my doctor recommended a comfort animal. Now I can live a normal life because my dog can sense when a panic attack is going to come on even before I can which gives me the time I need to pull over or do anything else necessary to make sure I don’t hurt myself or someone else.

By: rick aka ollie

rick aka ollie — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:27:25 +0000

well heres one for you just 2 wks ago on a southwest flight that came into phx a flight attendent was asking a guy who had a service monkey to return his seat tray up for landing .he refused saying i can`t right now after being firm but nice she grabbed the tray table and put it up for him and ………. thats when she discovered the monkey was giving this guy a b j no i`m not making this up i know the customer service supervisor and ramp manager who verified this sooooooooo

By: Albert

Albert — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 04:28:06 +0000

Thanks for that explanation. What airline industry buzzwords I know I learned from flyertalk but bulkhead was one words where everyone threw it around and one I managed never to decipher. I always thought it was “things on the side” like an emergency exit row seat where the door bulges inward and so the “window” (even though there’s no window) seat passenger is somewhat miserable despite the extra room .. or at one point I thought it was those side compartments you have on the side upstairs on the 744s…

By: CF

CF — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 13:45:32 +0000

Sometimes I guess I’ve been around the industry so much that I forget how to speak like a normal human. The bulkhead is the front row of a cabin. The wall in front of that row is the bulkhead, though people often refer to any front row as a bulkhead row even if there isn’t a wall there. This generally has more legroom than other rows so there’s more room for, um, a pig.

By: Albert

Albert — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 13:00:55 +0000

Everyone’s been talking about the animals but you’ve mentioned something that I’ve never been able to figure out to this day:

What the heck is the bulkhead?

By: JamED

JamED — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 08:42:25 +0000

Guide dog, I’m fine with, Guide pony, thats ok too, Helper Monkey, ok I can let that slide…..Comfort pig!?!

The world is heading for a unexpected hard reboot if we don’t get a grip soon.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 00:00:20 +0000

http://www.nfbnet.org/pipermail/nagdu/2003-May/000959.html

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 23:42:30 +0000

Thats not at all what he is saying he is simply saying there’s a reasonable limit to what should be acceptable as a comfort animal. Some things such as the 300lb pig are clearly not acceptable but for fear of fanatical lawyers and lawsuits they are allowed at the cost of safety.

I for one dont want to be the person sitting next to someone and their animal for a flight even if its just an hour.

By: John

John — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 23:26:30 +0000

Right, because people with psychological or mental illnesses should just suck it up and deal, right? Or tranq themselves into oblivion, or just drive instead!

Same with those folks with no arms — why don’t they just not damn well eat on the plane, instead of making random people “uncomfortable”?

By: Kim

Kim — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 21:40:24 +0000

I have a problem with the TSA guidelines pertaining to service monkeys. As mentioned in the post, service monkeys could be used to act as substitute arms for those without. The guidelines indicate that the handler should carry the monkey through screening and put it in a carrier or on a leash. This may present a challenge for a passenger with no arms. Perhaps the service monkey could get a pony handler…