Student flushes ESA hamster down toilet after being turned away by airline

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I read that ghastly story. It's hard for me to believe it's real. Although if you are not emotionally stable enough to fly w/o your hamster, I suppose it's not outside the realm of possibility you're not stable enough to find alternatives to painfully ending it's life.

Let's say, I hope her story is fabricated in an effort to get a payout from the airline and/or some internet fame.

If she really did do this, she's clinically nuts and should be banned from owning animals. To many alternatives available to justify what she did.

Seriously though - who would do that????

several stories state that she will be suing the airline. i think that's what needs to happen. it needs to go to the courts and the courts will ultimately decide the law of the land. in the meantime, airlines, restaurants, etc. need to beef up their policies on ESA's.

So if they told her to jump of a cliff she would?

sadly i think she would ponder whether to hang around the airport and have a long drawn out demise from starvation and boredom OR to end it immediately by jumping off a bridge before choosing the latter.