MIAMI — A Florida woman says an airline told her to flush her hamster down a toilet at the airport because the emotional support rodent wasn’t allowed to fly with her.

The Miami Herald reports before Belen Aldecosea flew home from college to South Florida, she twice called Spirit Airlines before her Nov. 21 flight to ensure she could bring along Pebbles, her pet dwarf hamster.

No problem, the airline told her. But when Aldecosea arrived at the Baltimore airport, Spirit refused to allow the animal board.

The 21-year-old woman told the newspaper that she flushed Pebbles at an airline employee’s suggestion, after running out of other options.

Panicked and needing to return home to deal with a medical issue, Aldecosea was unable to rent a car and agonized for hours before doing the unthinkable.

“She was scared. I was scared. It was horrifying trying to put her in the toilet,” Aldecosea said. “I was emotional. I was crying. I sat there for a good 10 minutes crying in the stall.”

A spokesman for Spirit acknowledged the airline mistakenly told Aldecosea that Pebbles was allowed. But he denied that a Spirit employee recommended flushing her pet in an airport restroom.

“To be clear, at no point did any of our agents suggest this guest (or any other for that matter) should flush or otherwise injure an animal,” spokesman Derek Dombrowski said.

But Aldecosea said she’s considering suing Spirit over the conflicting instructions that pressured her into making an anguished decision.

She shared her tale with the newspaper after the story of an emotional support peacock, denied entrance to a flight, went viral on the internet.

Aldecosea said she had her doctor’s letter certifying Pebbles.