Beckers 1,136 Posted January 30, 2018 Report Share Posted January 30, 2018 Whoa. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
h2odivers...Ray 952 Posted January 30, 2018 Report Share Posted January 30, 2018 I’ve got a stuffed peacock if anyone needs a emotional support animal. Its house broken and doesn’t require any special diet. lightbikes 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cortezcapt (Derek) 156 Posted January 30, 2018 Report Share Posted January 30, 2018 17 minutes ago, h2odivers...Ray said: I’ve got a stuffed peacock if anyone needs a emotional support animal. Its house broken and doesn’t require any special diet. Those are the best kind of peacocks, bet it's quiet too! lightbikes 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beckers 1,136 Posted January 31, 2018 Report Share Posted January 31, 2018 4 hours ago, h2odivers...Ray said: I’ve got a stuffed peacock if anyone needs a emotional support animal. Its house broken and doesn’t require any special diet. Just an occasional dusting ? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Grumpy and Grandma 740 Posted January 31, 2018 Report Share Posted January 31, 2018 5 minutes ago, Beckers said: Just an occasional dusting ? With a "feather" duster.. lightbikes and BradyBzLyn...Mo 1 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
lightbikes 73 Posted January 31, 2018 Report Share Posted January 31, 2018 Peacocks as support animals???? As my grandkids say "no frickn way" !!!!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Travisma 1,317 Posted January 31, 2018 Report Share Posted January 31, 2018 There was a FB post of the woman arriving at Newark Airport with the peacock in the article. First it showed her trying to corral it, then it showed her walking thru the terminal with it on her shoulder. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
caveat lector 181 Posted January 31, 2018 Report Share Posted January 31, 2018 It's really great that she can sooth her stress level by doing something stupid that draws emmense attention to her Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Seals 111 Posted February 1, 2018 Report Share Posted February 1, 2018 The woman is a photographer and performance artist named Ventiko. Not saying she doesn't have stress and anxiety that's relieved by her peacock. Just saying I can see why she might (I Googled her and found her website. You may or may not want to.) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cortezcapt (Derek) 156 Posted February 1, 2018 Report Share Posted February 1, 2018 I understand stress, anxiety and depression and I'm sure emotional support animals can be helpful. But from everything I've read she was told multiple times before the day of the flight that she couldn't bring the peacock on the plane and still showed up with it. PR stunt? The peacock has it's one Instagram and Twitter accounts and its trip driving to California is being documented. Just all seems a little fishy to me. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beckers 1,136 Posted February 1, 2018 Report Share Posted February 1, 2018 I’m totally side eyeing this as a PR stunt. could you imagine if that bird went nuts on the plane? keith_h 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beckers 1,136 Posted February 1, 2018 Report Share Posted February 1, 2018 Umm? “Hyperallergic editor Seph Rodney recalls riding in the passenger seat of a truck with Ventiko at the wheel and Dexter the peacock sandwiched between them. Ventiko kept a pee pad on her lap.” https://hyperallergic.com/424238/artist-emotional-support-peacock-airplane-ventiko/ BradyBzLyn...Mo 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
BradyBzLyn...Mo 2,023 Posted February 1, 2018 Author Report Share Posted February 1, 2018 1 hour ago, Beckers said: I’m totally side eyeing this as a PR stunt. Ditto. Because this... "The spokesperson also emphasized that this was relayed to the passenger “on three separate occasions before they arrived at the airport.” And yet she turned up at the airport with the bird anyway. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Travisma 1,317 Posted February 8, 2018 Report Share Posted February 8, 2018 Here's the latest on airlines and support animals... Spirit Airlines employee told student to flush emotional support hamster down the toilet, student alleges A college student said she flushed her emotional support hamster down the toilet after Spirit Airlines refused to let her bring her furry pet on the plane. Belen Aldecosea, 21, of Miami Beach, Florida, told the Miami Herald that she contacted Spirit Airlines before her flight from Baltimore to South Florida on Nov. 21, 2017, regarding traveling with her dwarf hamster, Pebbles. Aldecosea claimed the airline told her it was not a problem to bring her hamster on the flight. However, when the student arrived at the airport she said the airline refused to let Pebbles on the plane. Aldecosea said she did not have many options since her family was in Florida and her friends were hours away. The student claimed a Spirit employee suggested she either flush Pebbles down the toilet or let the animal free. Aldecosea skipped her flight and tried to rent a car instead, but said she was too young to rent one. So she did what she felt was the most humane choice. “She was scared. I was scared. It was horrifying trying to put her in the toilet,” Aldecosea said. “I was emotional. I was crying. I sat there for a good 10 minutes crying in the stall.” The student said she considered letting Pebbles run free outside but could not bear thinking of her hamster freezing to death or getting hit. “I didn’t have any other options,” she said. Spirit Airlines spokesman Derek Dombrowski told the Miami Herald that an employee “mistakenly” told Aldecosea that Pebbles was allowed on the flight but denied that an employee suggested she flush the rodent down the toilet. “To be clear, at no point did any of our agents suggest this guest (or any other for that matter) should flush or otherwise injure an animal,” Dombrowski said. The Miami Herald noted that the U.S. Transportation Safety Administration was fine with hamsters on the flight, but airlines are allowed to choose if they want the rodents on board. Aldecosea said Pebbles was a doctor-approved emotional support animal that helped her when she developed a growth in her neck while at school in Wilson College in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. The student said she bought Pebbles for some company. “She (Pebbles) was so loving. It was like she knew I needed somebody,” Aldecosea said. Aldecosea, who now attends the Texas State University, said she was considering legal action against Spirit due to the airline “pressuring her into making an anguished decision with a pet certified by her doctor as an emotional support animal.” Her attorney, Adam Goodman said this case was different than the woman who made headlines last week after a United Airlines flight refused her request to bring her emotional support peacock on a flight. "This wasn’t a giant peacock that could pose a danger to other passengers. This was a tiny cute harmless hamster that could fit in the palm of her hand,” Goodman said. Fox News’ request for a comment from Spirit Airlines and PETA was not immediately answered. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DaveInTN 3,247 Posted February 8, 2018 Report Share Posted February 8, 2018 There is so much about that story that doesn't add up. For instance, if Pebbles was so small it could fit in the palm of her hand, why not hide it and sneak it on the flight? Also, I can't imagine someone that needs an emotional support animal would ever willingly flush that animal down the toilet. I would think they'd do anything in their power to protect that animal. Thirdly, since when does PETA not respond to a request for comment from the media? I've never known them to pass up free publicity. And finally, why is it news that Spirit Airlines provided poor customer service to someone? Isn't that the only thing they are good at? Too many things ain't right with that story. BradyBzLyn...Mo, Tri-Circle-D and fladogfan aka Gretchen 1 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Tri-Circle-D 2,059 Posted February 8, 2018 Report Share Posted February 8, 2018 I wish the media would follow up on stories like this, but we never here how they are resolved. I say the dimwit won't get a dime for her claim. TCD Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Travisma 1,317 Posted February 8, 2018 Report Share Posted February 8, 2018 56 minutes ago, DaveInTN said: There is so much about that story that doesn't add up. For instance, if Pebbles was so small it could fit in the palm of her hand, why not hide it and sneak it on the flight? Also, I can't imagine someone that needs an emotional support animal would ever willingly flush that animal down the toilet. I would think they'd do anything in their power to protect that animal. Thirdly, since when does PETA not respond to a request for comment from the media? I've never known them to pass up free publicity. And finally, why is it news that Spirit Airlines provided poor customer service to someone? Isn't that the only thing they are good at? Too many things ain't right with that story. I thought the same thing, plus a hamster to make your neck feel better? Gee, I got a sore arm from having a tendon repaired, can I get an emotional Aardvark? On a side note, a woman I know from work has had a peacock adopt her! It showed up on her doorstep about 2 weeks ago and hasn't left. It goes into the garage when the weather turns bad, and is starting to eat out of her hand. And it plays with her dog. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DaveInTN 3,247 Posted February 8, 2018 Report Share Posted February 8, 2018 3 minutes ago, Travisma said: Gee, I got a sore arm from having a tendon repaired, can I get an emotional Aardvark? Wouldn't you be better served by an ARMadillo? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Travisma 1,317 Posted February 8, 2018 Report Share Posted February 8, 2018 24 minutes ago, DaveInTN said: Wouldn't you be better served by an ARMadillo? Nah, the aardvark at least would be useful around the house eating all the ants. Florida is 1/2 sinkholes, and 1/2 ant nests! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cortezcapt (Derek) 156 Posted February 10, 2018 Report Share Posted February 10, 2018 https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.usatoday.com/amp/320062002 PETA Did respond at some point . https://www.lawyers.com/legal-info/criminal/animal-law/animal-cruelty-laws-in-maryland.html Aggravated Animal Cruelty Aggravated cruelty to animals is a felony. The crime includes: intentionally mutilating or torturing an animal cruelly beating or killing an animal on purpose, or injuring or killing a law enforcement animal, unless it’s in self-defense. (Md. Code, Crim. Law, § 10-606.) I wonder if her or her lawyer thought of the possibility of this backfiring on her and getting her charged with felony animal cruelty. Unless someone comes forward who overhead the spirit airlines employee telling her to flush the hamster, she's pretty much just put into public record she killed an animal for no reason and in a inhumane way. Even if someone overheard, she still chose to do it instead of finding another option. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Travisma 1,317 Posted February 10, 2018 Report Share Posted February 10, 2018 It sounds like she was carrying the rodent around in her hand. I wonder if she had it in a cage if everything would've been avoided? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
BradyBzLyn...Mo 2,023 Posted February 12, 2018 Author Report Share Posted February 12, 2018 On 2/9/2018 at 10:24 PM, Cortezcapt (Derek) said: Unless someone comes forward who overhead the spirit airlines employee telling her to flush the hamster, she's pretty much just put into public record she killed an animal for no reason and in a inhumane way. Even if someone overheard, she still chose to do it instead of finding another option. This exactly. The animal was her responsibility and no one made her do anything. By her account she had *hours* to find a solution and was even willing to rent a car. So... why not take a cab to the local animal shelter? And how did she get to the airport? She claims she had no friends or family close by, but couldn't she bring the animal back home in all that time? She could have at least left him with a bunch of food and water until she could get someone to go by her place and check in on him. I also have to think that if a crying girl is walking around an airport terminal with a cute furry animal in a carrier that someone would have taken pity and taken the critter off her hands. On 2/10/2018 at 4:50 PM, Travisma said: It sounds like she was carrying the rodent around in her hand. I wonder if she had it in a cage if everything would've been avoided? I read somewhere that it was in a carrier. And the kicker to the story... her lawyer confirmed she's already bought another hamster. *blurg* Tri-Circle-D 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
momof3kids-Yvonne 595 Posted February 15, 2018 Report Share Posted February 15, 2018 I have decided that I too need some emotional support. Sent from my SM-G900V using Tapatalk BradyBzLyn...Mo and Lantana 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DaveInTN 3,247 Posted February 15, 2018 Report Share Posted February 15, 2018 1 hour ago, momof3kids-Yvonne said: I have decided that I too need some emotional support. Sent from my SM-G900V using Tapatalk #MeToo momof3kids-Yvonne and Lantana 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Duane 152 Posted February 15, 2018 Report Share Posted February 15, 2018 1 hour ago, momof3kids-Yvonne said: I have decided that I too need some emotional support. Sent from my SM-G900V using Tapatalk I don't drink..... yet, but this here is funny!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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