Farewell, emotional support kangaroos. It’s high time the feds cracked down on flying petting zoos As plane passengers took off with their emotional support animals, so did their stories, and the stories were wild. We chuckled at first at the Indian Runner duck in the Captain America diaper aboard an American Airlines puddle jumper and shook our heads in disbelief at the incontinent pig booted from a U.S. Airways flight. Then we gasped in horror at news reports that emotional support animals had bitten flight attendants and mauled passengers, including a pit bull that allegedly attacked a 5-year-old girl at Portland International Airport. The headlines about misbehaving emotional support animals grew so numerous that they became their own journalism genre.