Whether psychiatric service animals should be treated similarly to other service animals.DOT has issued an Advanced Notice of Proposed Rule Making (ANPRM) and is seeking comments from the public on these specific issues: Department of Transportation (DOT) is making plans to amend and clarify its regulations implementing the Air Carrier Access Act. In light of the challenges people working with service animals are facing during air travel, the U.S. And then? My Seeing Eye dog calmly led me off the plane. “She was trained to behave in public.” I waited for the two dogs in the bulkhead seats to leave before giving Whitney the “Forward!” command. “She’s a service dog,” Mike responded with a shrug. “We didn’t even know there was a dog behind us!” they marveled. When I stood up with her after we landed, the couple who’d been sitting in the row in front of us complimented Whitney’s good behavior. Whitney, a 60 pound Yellow Lab/Golden Retriever cross, sat with her bottom under the seat in front of us, her head on my feet, and didn’t make a peep during the flight. Another woman at the gate had a smallish dog on a leash - that dog also had a vest on that said “service dog” –and when Southwest announced that people with disabilities could pre-board, both woman rushed to the front of the line to grab the bulkhead seats. My husband Mike was with us, and when he told me that the dog who’d lunged at Whitney was wearing a vest that said “Service dog in training,” I asked the owner the two questions federal law allows businesses to ask people claiming their dogs are service dogs: “Is that a Service Dog?” and “What tasks or work does your dog perform for you?” The owner answered “yes” to the first question, then told me the dog keeps her calm and prevents her from getting panic attacks. Just our luck: the yippy dog and its owner were going to be on our flight. When we got to the gate, that same small dog barked and lunged at Whitney again. I know to ready myself for distractions from other dogs when I’m outside with Whitney, I just forget that I have to be prepared for dog distractions inside airports now, too. A small dog yipped and lunged at my Seeing Eye dog Whitney as we checked in for a flight at Chicago’s Midway Airport last month.
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