Woman Brought A 50-70 Pound ‘Emotional Support Pig’ On A Plane

Sometimes I wonder if people try to consider their pets “emotional support” animals in order to allow them to fly on planes with them. I don’t know about you, but I would never, ever, EVER have one of my sweet pups treated like cargo underneath a plane. I’d be a nervous mess. There are way too many horror stories, and I’m pretty sure my dogs would be devastated. I’m a crazy person who drives 20+ hours to New England solely so my dogs don’t have to travel on a plane.

Judge.

On to the story. On Wednesday, a woman brought an Actual Pig on a US Airways flight departing from Connecticut. However, she had to leave after her pig become “disruptive.”

Jonathan Skolnik, a professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a passenger on the flight, told ABC News today he thought the woman with the pig was carrying a duffel bag when she got on the plane and headed straight for the empty seat next to him.

“But it turns out it wasn’t a duffel bag. We could smell it and it was a pig on a leash,” he said. “She tethered it to the arm rest next to me and started to deal with her stuff, but the pig was walking back and forth.”

“I was terrified, because I was thinking I’m gonna be on the plane with the pig,” Snolnik added, saying he guesses the pig weighed between 50 and 70 pounds.

Would I be terrified? No. I’d be more curious than anything else. How does a woman end up with a 50-70-pound “emotional support pig”? And if she can get away with that, surely my 50-pound bulldog could pass the test. She’s super cute and sounds more like a pig than a dog.

American Airlines, the parent company of US Airways, confirmed to ABC News that a passenger brought the pig aboard as an emotional support animal. After the pig became disruptive, she was asked to leave, a spokesperson said.

How would you react to a 50-70 pound pig sitting next to you on a plane? I think I’d be fine with it if it was like, a cute baby pig. Like this little guy.

SO CUTE.

But a giant, disruptive pig? Ehhhhh. And what if I wanted to eat a BLT on the plane? That would just be awkward.