Unreal: Influencer Brings Her Massive Great Dane “Service Dog” On United Airlines Flight
Narcissistic Instagram influencer Piêtra Luccas brought her massive great dane “service dog” with her on a recent United Airlines flight, even though the dog alone took up three seats. How are these shenanigans possibly allowed?
Influencer Boards United Flight In San Francisco With Massive Dog Wearing “Service Animal” Vest
Luccas calls herself a lifestyle, fitness, and fashion model and a “dog mom” and has amassed over two million followers on Instagram. Her dog Charlie, a massive great dane, has amassed 347K followers of his own. The dog is part of the brand…
The two are inseparable and Charlie is often an accoutrement in her skimpy photoshoots. They go drinking together, work out together, and seem to enjoy life together…
…which of course is great, except when this dog is classified as a “service dog” and brought onto an airplane in what appears to be nothing more than a security stunt. She even has a phoogpraher who accompanies her everywhere to take pictures of the two of them.
Here’s Charlie going through security:
Here’s Charlie waiting to board:
And here’s Charlie boarding, with flight attendants rather incredulous:
But somehow, United allowed this tomfoolery and the dog was allowed onboard.
I mean, I suppose we could all dream up an attenuated circumstance in which we could call our pet a “service animal.” The broad definition of a “psychiatric support animal” is virtually limitless. The dog makes your heart flutter? Service animal. Does the dog make you calmer? Service animal. Does the dog help you deal with an economy class seat? Service animal.
Stunts like this undermine the work of real service animals and are an embarrassment…it’s that simple.
Practically, this is even worse because the great dane is so big…the two of them need a whole row between them. What happens on a full flight? I hope they would be bumped and not another passenger.
This dog problem is getting worse and worse…the number of dogs in airports continues to increase.
This woman should fly Bark Air if she really must take her dog along.
And to United: how can you allow foolishness like this? You put the safety of every other passenger onboard at risk with a dog like that. While the dog may be gentle (and honestly, looks lovely), do you really want a dog that size blocking the aisle or exit row during an emergency?
Sorry, but dogs of that size should not fly.
Am I wrong here? Is this dog not a safety risk to everyone onboard? Is this not an absurd stretching of the “service animal” rules?