Lovely: “Service Dog” Stands On Furniture Eating Lounge Food In American Airlines Admirals Club

A mangnamamous “service dog” was so exhausted from his laborious role as caretaker and guardian that he had to rest on a couch and eat food or drink intended for human beings in an American Airlines Admirals Club. Someone give this brave pooch a medal.

Service Dog Lounges On Furniture In American Airlines Admirals Club, Chows Down

Oh, you did not think I was going to miss out on an opportunity to point out another documented case of service animal abuse, did you? This incident took place at an American Airlines Admirals Club at Los Angeles International Airport (the Terminal 5 lounge as far as I can tell).

Under a grand rotunda, stood a grand dog with a service collar around his neck (this one for only $9.99 on Amazon…).

His human, fashionably dressed in Ugg boots (which would have had her thrown out of the nearby Qantas Lounge in Terminal B), an athleisure outfit, and not one, not two, but three carry-on items (because why should rules apply to me, whether that be concerning dogs or bags?), certainly was in great need.

But caring for her loyal pet service companion, she went over to the food bar and fetched something for her darling child:

I wonder what pooch ate?

American Airlines’ own rules about pets:

Carry-on pets are welcome in Admirals Club lounges, provided they remain in their kennels.

Where was the staff here?

Hey folks, I don’t want to hear the trite quips about, “I’d rather see dogs than children running around” or “The dogs are better behaved than the low-class trash they carry.” Blah, blah, blah.

That doesn’t change the fact that dogs should not be standing on furniture or eating human food out of human cups…in fact, dogs should not be allowed in lounges.

If you need a service dog to get around, maybe you should not be traveling at all.

But of course, this is all a game. If airlines were allowed to ban service animals tomorrow, most folks would be just fine…as they had to be for decades before the proliferation of dogs onboard. Somehow people all survived just fine…

I’m not so heartless as to fail to recognize that some folks genuinely depend on their specially-trained service dogs when out in public. My ire is not addressed to those folks, but I wish they were the ones standing up and shouting about the Lululemon prima donnas who lie, cheat, and steal in order to take their trophy pet in the cabin with them.

I’m so jaded now when it comes to dogs on planes and I will conitnue to document these cases in hopes that in an era in which common sense is being thrown out the window, maybe just maybe some common sense can be restored to the skies and airlines can start banning these pesky pets from the skies.

Hat Tip: View From The Wing