{"id":81204,"date":"2018-08-17T09:35:15","date_gmt":"2018-08-17T13:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=81204"},"modified":"2022-01-13T20:34:13","modified_gmt":"2022-01-14T01:34:13","slug":"horsing-around-southwest-airlines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=81204","title":{"rendered":"Horsing Around Southwest Airlines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/horse.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-81205\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/horse-500x281.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/horse-500x281.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/horse-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/horse-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/horse.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Good news for some of you people, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fox5ny.com\/news\/southwest-airlines-to-allow-miniature-horses-as-service-animals-in-new-policy\">Southwest\u00a0Airlines<\/a> will now allow you to take your\u00a0Emotional Support Pony on flights.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Come September 17, people will be able to carry miniature horses onboard Southwest flights as trained\u00a0<span class=\"vm-hook-outer vm-hook-default vm-hook-inview\"><span class=\"vm-hook\">service<\/span><\/span>\u00a0animals, according to airline officials.<\/p>\n<p>Officials announced the policy change, via a statement on its website on Tuesday. In the statement, officials name\u00a0miniature horses, along with dogs and cats, as some of the most common service animals that will be accepted onboard.\u00a0<span class=\"vm-hook-outer vm-hook-default\"><span class=\"vm-hook\">Passengers<\/span><\/span>, however, will need to be able to provide credible verbal assurance that the animal is a trained service animal.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, the company announced other changes, such as formally accepting Psychiatric Support Animals (PSAs) as trained service animals, after accepting them informally as such in the past, and will also limit each passenger to one Emotional Support Animal.<\/p>\n<p>Passengers with an ESA will, according to the statement, still need to present a complete, current letter from a medical doctor or licensed mental health professional on the day of departure.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What kind of Mental Health Professional gives someone a &#8220;note&#8221; to take a horse on a plane?\u00a0 \u00a0My .45 1911 provides me with all kinds of emotional support, where do I get my note?\u00a0 Please, I am not anti-quadrupedalism\u00a0or prejudice against those who identify with a pronograde\u00a0posture as a means of\u00a0terrestrial locomotion.\u00a0 \u00a0Some quadrupeds serve a valuable and much-appreciated\u00a0function.\u00a0 A few even give me that warm fuzzy feeling.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/GBT.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-81208\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/GBT-500x246.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"246\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/GBT-500x246.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/GBT-300x148.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/GBT.jpg 610w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good news for some of you people, Southwest\u00a0Airlines will now allow you to take your\u00a0Emotional Support &hellip; <a title=\"Horsing Around Southwest Airlines\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=81204\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Horsing Around Southwest Airlines<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":667,"featured_media":81205,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-foreign-policy","category-liberals-suck"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/667"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=81204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/81205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}