Spirit Airlines Wouldn’t Let This Woman Bring Her ‘Emotional Support’ Hamster on the Flight. So She Flushed It down an Airport Toilet.

For anyone familiar with Spirit Airlines, its $65 carry-on baggage fees, its $3 for water, and its $10 boarding passes, is it any wonder that the Greyhound Of The Skies may object to a passenger’s “emotional support” hamster?

It was to 21-year-old Belen Aldecosea, who flushed her pet Pebbles down a toilet at Baltimore-Washington International Airport when the airline refused to let her board the plane with her Fort Lauderdale-bound animal guest . . .

Spirit Airlines spokesman Derek Dombrowski confirmed that “our reservation representative, unfortunately, did misinform the guest that a hamster was permitted to fly as an emotional support animal (ESA) on Spirit Airlines.”

When Aldecosea arrived at BWI, she said the first Spirit agent she encountered checked in Pebbles and his small cage without a hitch. But on her way to the TSA security checkpoint, she said, a second Spirit employee ran after her and said she could not bring the rodent aboard the plane — neither in the cabin nor the cargo.

She alleges that a Spirit worker said she could flush Pebbles down a toilet, an allegation Spirit denies. (Read more from “Spirit Airlines Wouldn’t Let This Woman Bring Her ‘Emotional Support’ Hamster on the Flight. So She Flushed It down an Airport Toilet.” HERE)

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