Last Sunday, I was scheduled on a flight from Toronto to Las Vegas for five days of partying. I was forbidden from bringing my comfort tarantula on board.

My comfort animal does not bite — at least people — and I don’t think she is even poisonous.

Dawn, as I call her, helps me function day to day in dealing with the anxiety and depression I’ve felt since animal services illegally seized my pet shark and rattlesnake.

For Air Canada to not allow me to bring my comfort animal on is discrimination!

Would they say to someone with an anaphylactic reaction to, say, spider bites, to not bring their Epipen? I DON’T THINK SO! And if those people have Epipens, then what’s the big deal about my tarantula?

Sadly, I had to let my tarantula go near one of the airport’s Park ’N Fly lots to make my flight.

You don’t know how bad my anxiety got on this trip and how ruined my vacation was.

Air Canada needs to do the right thing and apologize.

Make sure this never happens to someone else with a comfort animal.