Dot Rules On Emotional Support Animals. Dot officials noted that the proposed rule doesn’t prohibit people from flying with emotional support animals but the decision will be left to the airlines. The new rules don’t explicitly ban emotional support animals but clarify that they are not considered by the dot to be true service animals.

There are new dot rules for emotional support animals and here is what every esa owner should know. Dot has defined a service animal specifically as a trained dog. Department of transportation released its final rules for service animals traveling on airliners wednesday.

Flight, and the only service animals allowed to board alongside their owners must be trained dogs.

And that didn't include just dogs, but also hamsters, peacocks, pigs, and even miniature horses have taken to the sky under the protection of emotional support animals in the past. The government has decided that when it comes to air travel, only dogs can be service animals, and companions used for emotional support don't count. Airlines can consider an emotional support animal as a pet and not as a service. Requires airlines to treat psychiatric service animals the same as other service animals;