My first run in with this was on a flight from Charlotte to St. Maarten in the Caribbean. There was a couple behind us with a "service dog" beagle. The guy wa

My first run in with this was on a flight from Charlotte to St. Maarten in the Caribbean. There was a couple behind us with a "service dog" beagle. The guy was 25 and in the international med school there. There were 2 other couples on the flight, all in the same med school with "service animals". I watched them while getting their luggage, their dogs were terribly trained and jumping all over the place. I guess there is no requirement that a service animal is well behaved (outside of seeing eye dogs etc), but it was so obviously an attempt to get their animals to their temporary home for free. They all had the same, fresh out of the package, eBay "Support Dog" vest. If you have $100,000 to go to med school, you have $250 to fly the dog properly.