How NOT to travel with your dog

[maxdog]

How Not to Fly With Your Dog: Let Him Snap and Growl at the Crew - Dogster

[ColesMommy01]

Geeze! The amount of entitlement some people have really makes me smh. I'm sure this particular passenger knew beforehand her dog was somewhat aggressive or whatever other descriptive term she'd like to use for her pet.

It's pretty standard that dogs are kept confined during flights. Although, sometimes you'll have a flight crew who won't mind you having your animal out. She should have simply crated him when first asked. That particular passenger's inability to get herself and her dog together reflect on other pet owners negatively and commercial flights may buckle down more in terms of guidelines of bringing pets on board.

I have a people aggressive yorkie and when I flew with him my vet gave me medication for him to lessen his anxiety AND I kept him confined just in case.

[maxdog]

I completely agree that people like her give animal owners a bad rep. I must be a bad person because when I heard her screaming at the end I smiled.

[ColesMommy01]

I admit, I had a giggle or two myself

[Wylie's Mom]

Omg, what a mess! Some people just don't get it. I couldn't help but chuckle a bit, but then I also felt really bad for her too as she clearly just doesn't get it and gets SO very upset over it. If I was passenger on the plane, ugh, I'd have been ticked off!

[Ashla]

Oh wow that is terrible....

[jshade]

She might be mentally ill and is off her meds!

[richards6402]

Wow, she is a piece of work. I felt sorry for the people traveling with her.

[yorkiemini]

I an getting a whole new perspective on this - my Cali is no longer a confirmation dog, she just does rowdy agility now and love it. However, almost all of my local Yrokie club folks are confirmation people so we go to most of the shows, and surprisingly those same confirmation people seem to show up at ring side to cheer Cali on in agility. Several are also giving me their finished campions to train for agility - they know I have always wanted a Yorkie who is titled at "both ends".

So long story to get to the meat if the issue - I will be going to Westminster this february (so excited) to help my confirmation friends as their assistant ( who they loving call by the old term "bucket bitch"! They even made me a tee shirt!). So, enter the problem of getting all,these well behaved show dogs on a plane. The whole county will have dogs flying in to NYC around the same time and the airlines know all about this because it happens every year. The headache of getting all those dogs on the planes is a nightmare. Most of us will not be able to fly together because only so many dogs per plane. Some airlines seem to be more generous. Due to it being Westminster, others don't care. The there are international flights bringing dogs in for Westminster who are trying to make connections that already have the number of dog quotas on them. Feel sorry for those folks. I am even meeting a lady in Atlanta who is from the Czechoslavakia to help her with one of the 3 dogs she it trying to bring to the show.

No I would rather be on a plane with 20 well behaved show dogs than 2 screaming toddlers (And I know they can't help it) so I don't see the issue. You pay the fare, you behave (dog or person), so what is the big deal!

Some one said, well some people don't want to sit next to a dog -- excuse me, who wants to sit next to a screeming toddler, or a smelly BO person, or someone with too much perfume on -- it is call the "public" because me mingle with all sorts of folks. But, it seems dogs are different. So, the reservation issues at even this early date continue.

Okay end of rant -- just want to get all these beautiful dogs on the plane and to New York -- had no idea it was so difficult for so many!!!!