Should Delta Airlines Ban All Pit Bulls ?

                                 By: Olivia Pasquarello September 26, 2018

 

On wednesday June 12 an emotional support pit bull bit two Delta Airline flight attendees, now delta airlines is banning pit bull service dogs for emotional  support dogs. Delta airlines should not ban emotional support Pit bulls because they are needed for the caretaker and don’t bite on purpose

There was one time when an emotional support Pit bull was on Delta airlines and bit two flight attendees. Delta airlines is now banning all emotional support dogs that are Pit bulls or dogs related to Pit bulls.

There was never context to why the emotional support dog may of bit the flight attendees but all dogs can bite no matter how fluffy or loyal they are. Sometimes a dog doesn’t like the situation they’re in so they’ll have signs when their going to bite such as avoidance, yawning, liplicking, tail tucking, rigid body, and their hair sticking up. They will bite out of nervousness not because they want to.

Some dogs are more aggressive because of their ancestor DNA or it depends on how the breed is used by humans. Before the civil war people were using Pit bulls to be used for hunting and dog fighting. With that from http://love-a-bull.org/resources/the-history-of-pit-bulls/

some of those instincts may of adapted into more and more pit bull generations giving them the bad reputation. With more and more people seeing how nice and loyal they are some of the bad reputation they have has gone away.

In protest of Delta banning emotional support  Pit bulls people are signing a petition to hopefully make a change. The petition had a goal of 40,000 signatures but later beat that and now has a goal of 200,000 people with 5,000 signatures away from that goal.  

From background knowledge its easy to know that a trained emotional support dog is most likely not going to bite. This dog may of been a house pet and the owners said that he was an emotional support dog just to avoid travel fees, like most people now a days.
Now the airline is only allowing trained dogs on the planes and you need to show proof that your dog does a need for you emotionally or physically. In certain cases people who have service dogs have more rights than people with emotional support dogs. People with emotional support dogs can’t go into certain stores because there not need/ to be watching the owner every second of the day. Even if your dog is a house pet and just well trained then you can maybe get away with it. If you say your dog is a service dog when they aren’t and people can tell then you can get kicked out of somewhere. For example if your at a presentation with your actual service dog they will just sit there and be quiet. If you bring your “service dog” to a presentation and the dog is going up to people and barking/urinating on things, it’s a pretty obvious sign that there not actually service dogs and that’s when you have the authority to kick them out since the dog is a disruption to the presentation/area around them. When people with emotional support dogs can not go into the presentation unless they have proof that they will help them then there allowed in.     

  Delta airlines should definitely reconsider the decision they made because Pit bulls are very loyal and kind dogs with just a bad reputation.


    Work Cited Page

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-travel-briefcase-delta-pit-bulls-20180629-story.html

http://love-a-bull.org/resources/the-history-of-pit-bulls/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/animalia/wp/2018/06/22/delta-is-banning-pit-bull-service-dogs-critics-say-that-might-not-be-legal/?utm_term=.70f519f5900e