Woman takes emotional support pig on flight

[hisno1girl]

www.buzzfeed.com/alisonvingiano/pigs-still-cant-fly

The pig was on a US Airways flight leaving Connecticut on Wednesday. American Airlines, the parent company of US Airways, told ABC News that the woman had brought the pig on board as an emotional support animal.

The plane never took off with the pig on board. After it became disruptive, she was asked to leave with the animal.

One passenger, Jonathan Skolnik, a professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, told ABC News that when he first spotted the pig he thought it was a big duffle bag. But as the woman got closer to him, he saw it was a pig and estimated that it weighed between 50 and 70 pounds.

“It turns out it wasn’t a duffel bag. We could smell it and it was a pig on a leash,” said Skolnik, who was seated next to the woman and her pet. “She tethered it to the arm rest next to me and started to deal with her stuff, but the pig was walking back and forth.”
“I was terrified, because I was thinking I’m gonna be on the plane with the pig,” Snolnik added.

And you thought getting a middle seat was bad.

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I would have lost my shit if someone boarded the plane with a freaking pig.

[speckledfrog]

I would have loved to see/sit by a pig! I wonder in what way it was being disruptive.

[janetplanet20]

I'm laughing at the idea of an emotional support pig! I can understand a dog or a cat, but a pig?! Lol

[olegregg]

I would not be okay with pig smells on a plane. It's bad enough with all of the random human body odors.

[riffraff]

A woman brought a puppy on our flight tonight, she got asked to leave before take off because the poor thing wouldn't stop crying

[jinkies]

My big question here was how she planned to keep the pig from defecating on the plane. So then I googled "can you potty train a pig."

I wonder what my husband thinks when he looks at our search history.

[thinkofthesoldiers]

Disruption is one thing, but she either didn't take care of the pig or it wasn't potty trained. they don't stink in general.

And a pig lives longer than a dog or cat. If it was indeed a service animal (which I question based on its disruptive behavior), it makes sense to have one that lives a long time. That is why miniature horses are good for that purpose too.

[killercupcake]

I'd be pretty annoyed if a 50-70 pound pig was walking back and forth in my aisle. I barely have enough room for my legs! I don't have room for a pig too!

[killercupcake]

But I am rolling my eyes at "Terrified." Unless it was a wild boar, there's nothing to be terrified of.

[Deleted]

Nov 28, 2014 23:12:50 GMT -5 riffraff said:

A woman brought a puppy on our flight tonight, she got asked to leave before take off because the poor thing wouldn't stop crying

Aw, poor puppy. I loved the experience flying with our 12 lb dog. we were able to let her head stick out of her carrier for most of the flight, and watching her look at the clouds was amazing.

[eb777888]

Jonathan Skolnik, a professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, told ABC News that when he first spotted the pig he thought it was a big duffle bag.



This is making me LOL. What a random thought thrown into the story.

[killercupcake]

Nov 28, 2014 23:23:05 GMT -5 @smace said:

Nov 28, 2014 23:15:09 GMT -5 killercupcake said:

But I am rolling my eyes at "Terrified." Unless it was a wild boar, there's nothing to be terrified of.

Pretty sure this guy would be terrified of a butterfly.

Aww. He looks like a very nice man!

[datass]

Ok did no one see the pig before she boarded? Anyway, those aisles are barely wide enough for 1 person. The pig is an obstruction.

[shananagins]

Nov 28, 2014 23:41:11 GMT -5 mofongo said:

Wouldn't you have to buy a seat for a 70lb pig?

This is what I was wondering. It can't just hang in the aisle the whole time right? If you have a large service dog on a plane doesn't it need a seat? Can a pig even sit in a seat? 

[Captain Serious]

Lol. Who's terrified of a pig?

[thecatinthehat]

DH should never see this! I think one day when the dogs pass away he might convince me to "replace" them with a pot bellied pig. Omg the look on my parents face when the see a pig in the house would be almost worth it to let DH do it.

[rupertpenny]

LOL For some reason this post is almost as funny to me as jillianashley6's Reagan calendar.

I don't think I would mind a pig on a plane. I'm about to take B on a very long flight and I'm sure she will be more disruptive than any pig.

[Eagles]

Nov 29, 2014 6:49:05 GMT -5 rupertpenny said:

LOL For some reason this post is almost as funny to me as jillianashley6's Reagan calendar.

I don't think I would mind a pig on a plane. I'm about to take B on a very long flight and I'm sure she will be more disruptive than any pig.

Can you put her in a cat carrier?

[adhdfashion]

I would rather sit next to pig, than the asshole that puts on the entire bottle of cologne.

[flamingeaux]

Nov 29, 2014 10:31:10 GMT -5 adhdfashion said:

I would rather sit next to pig, than the asshole that puts on the entire bottle of cologne.

truth

[zzuvet]

They say pigs are the smartest domesticated farm animal. They are very easy to potty train and are like weird looming dogs. Unfortunately there is no such thing as a true micro pig. They are only made that way by feeding them so little that they do not grow. Mini pigs are an average of 80-100 lbs full grown.

I love pigs and raised a piglet in my house one winter. I would not want to fly with one.

[MarmeeNoir]

All I can see is bad turbulence and a pig come flying at me.

[cvillern]

Nov 29, 2014 11:41:16 GMT -5 zzuvet said:

They say pigs are the smartest domesticated farm animal. They are very easy to potty train and are like weird looming dogs. Unfortunately there is no such thing as a true micro pig. They are only made that way by feeding them so little that they do not grow. Mini pigs are an average of 80-100 lbs full grown.

I love pigs and raised a piglet in my house one winter. I would not want to fly with one.

I was going to write a quick PSA about "mini pigs" too. We have 2 that we got from a rescue and they are well over 100 pounds apiece. Pigs are awesome but will not stay small forever!

[Jalapeñomel]

If people can take a therapy dog on a flight, then they can take a therapy pig.

I like both pigs and dogs...this would be a-ok with me.

[Jalapeñomel]

Nov 29, 2014 10:31:10 GMT -5 adhdfashion said:

I would rather sit next to pig, than the asshole that puts on the entire bottle of cologne.

Or who hogs the arm rest

Or who has to have his legs wide open, because his penis is soooo large, it's impossible to close his legs. 

[Jalapeñomel]

Nov 29, 2014 13:10:53 GMT -5 Queen Dick, Hibernating Bear said:

Nov 29, 2014 12:55:21 GMT -5 Jalapeñomel said:

Or who hogs the arm rest

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I see what you did there. Will nobody appreciate my pun upthread? kevin arnold would if she were here

I snorted a little. 

[RoxMonster]

The day I'd sit next to a farm animal on a plane is a day when pigs could fly. Oh wait.....









P.S. I really wouldn't mind; I just wanted to use that idiom.

[lg28]

I had a pet pig for about 6 months as a kid. Our neighbours (pig farmers) brought the animal to the school for show and tell, and you can't put the pig back in the barn with the other animals (disease concerns) after they've been out In the public. So my parents took it in as a pet. It was honestly a great pet (way better than the chicken we had a few years later) but we sent it to the butcher when it got to be full-sized within a year. That was always our intention, we just prolonged its life.

I still wouldn't take a pig on a plane but they do make good pets.

[Deleted]

My dogs are in the 45-65 pound range (the boy is 65 pounds). If we travel with all three we buy out the row- a seat for DH, a seat for me, then the middle seat that one or both of the girls sits in, and the boy sits on the ground. We have never flown with all three alone, and I don't see how we could, but we have flown alone (one human) with the two girls. Again, we have to get an extra seat; one husky sits in the middle seat, the other on the ground, and we book on Southwest so if someone doesn't want to take seat on the other side of the seated husky they don't have to (that never happens; the girls only fly with one parent when they are going to shows and are so clean and groomed they are effectively stuffed animals and people clamor for the seat next to them).

[moolarkey]

We had hogs. They are intelligent. I hated them, except to eat. Biggest PITAs in the world and they can be mean so those laughing about being afraid of a pig are wrong. Most aren't mean but there are some and they will charge and can hurt you.