Thankfully, You Can Still Bring Your Miniature Horse on a Southwest Flight

Miloch wrote in
news
https://jezebel.com/thankfully-you-c...iniature-horse
-on-1828338393

Southwest Airlines is updating their animal policy, and it looks like
the horse girls can claim victory. Effective September 17, emotional
support animals will be limited to cats and dogs. So that emotional
support bunny? Yeah, it’s staying at home, boo. Your emotional support
peacock? Don’t even think about it. Same goes for emotional support
ferrets, ducks, hamsters, hedgehogs, etc.

As for service animals, Southwest will abide by Department of
Transportation guidelines and allow only, “the most common service
animals—dogs, cats, and miniature horses.”

Yes, miniature horses!

Their inclusion in this policy seemed strange as I have only seen
service dogs. Technically, the Americans with Disabilities Act only
recognizes “dogs that are individually trained to do work or perform
tasks for people with disabilities,” as official service animals..

However, there are provisions in place that allow miniature horses to
act as a service animal. According to the ADA, as long as the
miniature horse is potty trained, well behaved, and doesn’t pose a
safety risk, they’re fair game as long as they can fit in a given
facility. I suspect that perhaps horse girls are more powerful than we
ever could have imagined.


more at
https://www.southwestaircommunity.co...s/Service-Anim
al-Policy-Changes-Effective-September-17/ba-p/78566



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Always liked Southwest. I remember the days
when their CEO Herb Kelleher would join the
loading crew to "throw bags" duing peak holiday
times.