Frequent flyers of the friendly skies are not feeling this fox and her huge hound.
Curses and epithets are being hurled at a social media smoke-show who hauled her humongous Great Dane, an alleged service animal, onto an airplane.
“I love dogs but this is ridiculous,” barked a vexed viewer beneath Instagram influencer Piêtra Luccas’ viral vid, which has garnered nearly 46 million clicks.
The clip kicks off with her approaching the cabin door to the United Airlines flight and seemingly startling the flight attendants, with one greeting her, “Well, hello! I’ve been hearing about this guy.”
Luccas pauses to respond that she wanted to note that she’s “seated around people” and she wanted to “make sure they are OK” with the situation.
“The supervisor talked to everyone and explained everything, so …” the crew member replied, to which the person filming behind Luccas responded, “It’s going to be fine” before they entered the plane as seated — and smiling — passengers gawked.
However, the interaction set off a tidal wave of online tsk-tsking.
“How f’ing rude can you be to burden everyone else with your selfishness,” an equally huffy commenter howled about what someone else labeled “attention-seeking behavior.”
“Who brings a horse on an airplane?” another spat, referencing the dog’s gargantuan build.
But they’re not just picking on the pinup’s supersized pup.
A male Great Dane can reach up to 32 inches at the shoulder and weigh a massive 175 pounds, according to the American Kennel Club.
The experts note, however, that despite the breed’s jumbo size, Great Danes are “elegant, and even regal in their gait and disposition.”
Still, it seems that persnickety travelers don’t want to see the gentle giants at their airport gates.
But when it comes to Luccas’ helper pooch, Charlie, skeptics seem to doubt that the dog’s really there to help her out.
“She knows damn well that’s not a service dog,” a cyber cynic spat.
“I can’t stand that!!! She doesn’t even need it, not a service dog,” another scoffed. “She just wants the attention!!!”
“The absolute narcissism of the day. People exploiting [accommodations made] for the truly disabled, claiming ‘hidden disabilities’ like stress, anxiety and claustrophobia to justify imposing on EVERYONE else in the world to bring their pets with them everywhere pets are not supposed to be,” ranted an outraged hater.
“This woman’s Instagram makes it absolutely clear she is a healthy, able-bodied person and the dog is her pet,” the incensed commenter continued. “Airlines need to do better. People need to demand better.
“What a bad person.”
A separate Great Dane received a ruff welcome upon boarding a flight in December. Peeved passengers and flight attendants rolled their eyes at the sight of the hulking animal as he sniffed around for his assigned seat.
Gabriel Bogner, a 27-year-old content creator, recently caught flak, too, for carting his 140-pound Great Dane, Darwin, onto an Airbus from Los Angeles to New York City.
The four-legged hulk, who required multiple seats for comfort during the cross-country trip, acts as a service animal to Bogner, who lives with Crohn’s disease.
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