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What I don't understand about ESAs especially on airplanes are what about people who are scared of dogs and who have issues w/ dogs?

Personally, if there was a dog on a plane I was flying that would make me extremely uncomfortable and nervous.

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You can't request that a legitimate service animal be removed because you're afraid of it, you're only option is to get your own service animal to keep the dogs at bay, e.g. a Tiger. Such is the MAD doctrine of service animals.

Not to mention, there's a non-insignificant portion of the population that's allergic. Generally it's not life threatening but most commonly it'll lead to cold like symptoms (nose/head congestion, trouble sleeping).

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