Oh My Dog

I like dogs, as the dog hair level in the house and tongue marks on the windows would attest, but are we really going to see a trend toward having your emotional support animal with you at all times? At a NY restaurant, it has happened when two women came to eat lunch:

"They both said that their animals were emotional service dogs," said Gil Ohana, the manager, explaining why he let them in. "One of them actually carried a doctor's letter."

It seems to be legitimized through a 2003 DOT document that addressed how airlines were supposed to deal with the animals of the disabled on airplanes. I wonder if this was what they had in mind, though:

Tami McLallen, a spokeswoman for American Airlines, said that although dogs are the most common service animals taken onto planes, the airline has had to accommodate monkeys, miniature horses, cats and even an emotional support duck. "Its owner dressed it up in clothes," she recalled.

Probably not.