The Department of Transportation recently announced it is seeking to amend the guidelines again to ensure that those flying with service animals really need them and that the animals can be safety accommodated on a crowded passenger plane. 🤩Posted by Fred-Mini Service Horse on Sunday, February 16, 2020 Thank you to our friends that have let us know. ✈ So it appears our news story is being showed on local news stations all over the country. #househorse #frecklebutt #evilearsjr #miniservicehorse #mommyshelper #directedretrieval #mobilityservicehorse What do you do on a long BORING flight after a jam packed busy California vacation take a nap and use your Mommy's leg as a pillow. He was a picture-perfect service animal on the planes." I could tell the people who weren't happy, but it is what it is. "There's just not a big enough community for most people to see ," Froese said. She said she received a few dirty looks along the way, but for the most part, the trip was successful and she was happy others got to see a miniature service horse in action. "With respect to animal species, we indicated that we would focus our enforcement efforts on ensuring that the most commonly used service animals (dogs, cats, and miniature horses) are accepted for transport as service animals," the department said.įor her trip, Froese had to take four planes - from Michigan to Dallas and Dallas to California, then back. To address some of the debate regarding service animals in public places, the DOT clarified the guidelines in a statement issued in August 2019. "Since airlines have to allow miniature service horses - when the DOT made the ruling last August, they can't deny miniature service horses," Froese told CBS News, referring to the Department of Transportation's 2019 guidelines. So, he can go more places - like airplanes. She ended up getting Freckle Butt Fred - or just Fred, for short - because he is a bit smaller than Charlie at 115 pounds. Freckle Butt Fred is a 115-pound miniature horse who aids Ronica Froese, who has an autoimmune disease.įroese got her first miniature horse, 280-pound Charlie, 14 months before she even got sick, she said. "I have an incurable autoimmune disease I was diagnosed with four and a half years ago," she explained to CBS News, adding that the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) approved miniature horses as service animals in 2011.
But Froese says a lot of the attention has been negative.įroese's service horse is direct-to-retrieval trained, meaning he can help her pick up objects when she can't bend over or lift.
A photo of Fred in first class, dressed in a sleeve to prevent his hair and dander from floating into the air, has gone viral. With her was Fred, the miniature service horse. Ronica Froese flew from her home in Michigan to Ontario International Airport in California, with a stop in Dallas. A woman who gained national attention for bringing her miniature horse as a service animal on an airplane is now hoping the attention does not affect the Department of Transportation's decision to let miniature horses fly.
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