Emotional Support Hamster Gets Burial at Sea

The days of flying menageries of “support animals” could be coming to an end:

Missing a flight can be quite a hassle for your average passenger, but for Pebbles – an emotional support dwarf hamster owned by Belen Aldecosea – it was downright deadly.

Aldecosea flushed Pebbles down an airport toilet after her pet was denied passage on a Spirit Airlines flight on 21 November and she could not figure out any other way to get home to south Florida. The 21-year-old college student said that she had been assured in advance that the hamster could travel with her and said that an airline employee advised her to either flush the animal or let it loose outside.

She chose the former. That’s the thanks Pebbles gets for providing emotional support to a neurotic moonbat. But what could it expect? They do something similar even to their own babies.

Following the hamster’s demise, Aldecosea “sat there for a good 10 minutes crying in the stall.”

The airline denies it suggested killing the hamster. Nonetheless, something smells like a lawsuit — although it could be that the hamster clogged the toilet.

On tips from Varla and Lyle.