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Earlier this month, Delta Airlines announced stricter rules on what kinds of service animals will be allowed on flights. The company joins a steadily growing list of governments, corporations and public institutions that have similarly been cracking down on a North American epidemic of people abusing service animal regulations.

There exists a whole galaxy of trained, certified service animals: Seeing-eye dogs, seizure alert dogs, autism support dogs, even specially trained psychiatric service dogs. But a “fake” service dog is when a normal pet is zipped into a vest and paired with questionable papers declaring them an “emotional support animal.”

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Below, a glimpse at some of the more egregious instances that are helping to drive the crackdown on service dog fraud.

Flying has descended into poop-splattered anarchy

In 2014, a cross-continental U.S. Airways flight was forced to make an unscheduled landing after an alleged service dog repeatedly pooped in the aisle, causing other fliers to be sick. “People that use (their) pets under the guise of “service dogs” who aren’t may be the worst (people) on earth,” reported one unimpressed passenger on Twitter. Meanwhile, mixing scores of untrained dogs with air travel has drawn literal blood. In November, a woman waiting in line for a Jet Blue flight at the Orlando Airport was bitten by an emotional support pit bull. The most disturbing in-flight incident, however, was in June. An Alabama man was badly mauled by an alleged service dog while on a flight to San Diego. Marlin Jackson was sitting in a window seat next to a man with a sizable growling dog on his lap. “Is this dog going to bite me?” asked Jackson just before the animal snapped and attacked his face, inflicting disfiguring wounds. In a statement by Delta, the animal was described as an “emotional support dog.”