Emotional support animals are companions that a medical professional has prescribed as helpful to someone with a disability. These animals are usually regular pets like dogs, cats and occasionally rabbits or guinea pigs. Many airlines recognize that flying causes great anxiety to many people, and so allow emotional support animals to fly aboard planes with their humans.

Like all nice, good and helpful things however, there are always people that will go too far and ruin it for everyone else. This list, compiled by Bored Panda, is a series of times when people brought unusual, unnecessary and just frankly ridiculous animals along for their ’emotional support,’ and while some here have a genuine need, many are just abusing a concept that has a real purpose for many people.

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#1 Duck On Flight

Daniel the Duck is a certified emotional support animal, who helps his owner Carla Fitzgerald battle the post traumatic stress disorder. “Everyone just took notice of him and fell in love,” Fitzgerald told ABC News. “I mean, he’s an adorable, funny and sweet little guy. He was very well behaved at the airport and during the flight.”

#2 ‘Emotional Support’ Pig Kicked Off Flight For Being Disruptive

Woman has been kicked off her plane for bringing a 70-pound pig on board for ’emotional support’. She made it to the plane and was sitting with the pig on her lap, however, before long, the pig was reported as being ‘out of control’ and disruptive. So the passenger was asked to get off.

#3 Pig On Flight

#4 Monkey Business! Meet Gizmo Who Stirred All That Trouble On A Las Vegas Bound Frontier Airlines Flight

Marmoset Gizmo got through TSA screening and boarded a Frontier Airlines flight from Columbus, Ohio to Las Vegas. Gizmo’s owner, Jason Ellis, didn’t warn other passengers or crew about his emotional support pet, so their surprise when Gizmo started poking its head out of Ellis’s shirt was understandable. Gizmo was never loose on flight and stuck to owner’s shirt the entire time.

#5 When My Mom Has A Kangaroo On Her Flight As An “Emotional Support Animal”

#6 Monkey Helper

Richard, a bonnet macaque monkey, belongs to Debby Rose, who suffers from agoraphobia, the fear of places and situations that causes panic, helplessness, or embarrassment. She brings her monkey everywhere and will even drive with him in the front seat.

#7 Woman Removed From Flight To Cleveland With Emotional Support Squirrel: ‘You Will Not Take My Baby’

A passenger was removed from a Frontier Airlines flight when she attempted to fly with her “emotional support” squirrel and then refused to get off the plane when she was told no, according to the airline. A Frontier spokesman said in a statement that the passenger had alerted the airline that she would be bringing an emotional-support animal on the flight but did not mention it would be a rodent. “Rodents, including squirrels, are not allowed on Frontier flights,” the statement read. “

#8 There Is Such A Thing As A Service Pony And I Want One

#9 Emotional Support Kangaroo

“A customer tried to bring a baby kangaroo on the plane as a service animal,” a retired airline customer service agent with 18 years of experience told Business Insider.

#10 Don’t Act Like You’ve Never Seen A Therapy Turkey Going Through Airport Security

This emotional support turkey was spotted at San Francisco Airport.

The turkey was seen going through security sometime last week by KTVU journalist Frank Somerville, who shared the story to his Facebook page.

According to the post, the turkey is an emotional support animal for a woman who lost her husband. The woman takes the turkey everywhere with her, and it even sleeps with her at night.

#11 We’ve Got [private part]!! Emotional Support Rooster For. The. Win

#12 Piggy Pilot. Hoggin’ The Cockpit

Hamlet the Beach Hog is the emotional support animal of Megan Peabody who loves flying, but suffers from anxiety. According to Peabody, having her hog on board makes her feel “more comfortable and provides a lovely distraction.”

#13 Just Your Everyday Emotional Support Kangaroo…

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