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United Airlines has had a longtime sketchy track record for keeping pets safe during flights. Perhaps more important than a ban would be a trenchant review of their pet-care procedures overall.
United Airlines will ban 25 different pet breeds when it resumes flying pets this summer, four months after a dog’s death prompted the airline to review its policies for transporting animals.
The carrier will again accept dogs and cats in the cargo hold starting July 9 if the animal’s guardian is booked on the same flight… United is also teaming with American Humane (the org that oversees Hollywood’s use of animals) to “improve the well-being of all pets that travel on [their flights].”
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United announced the changes less than two months after a bruising week of public-relations fiascoes…
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Exposing the Big Game 
I would like to know the reasons. Do they differ with the breed? We know pit bulls have a bad reputation. Some of the dogs have been bred with shortened nasal passages, I.e., bull dogs. Is the airline worried about breathing problem? Also the mastitis and pyrenees are really big. Do they not want to bother dealing with their size. I wish the airline had explained more.
There have been a lot of complaints I have read about lately concerning service animals being brought onboard planes. I would never take my pet on a plane unless there was no alternative, because it is much to stressful for them. I have a lilac point Siamese.
This was interesting too, I thought:
“The three men crossed the U.S. southern border into Texas with a black duffel bag, on an apparent mission to deliver their lucrative product to the United States.”
At least one of their ‘lucrative products’, anyway. I’m such a misanthropist:
I saw that. The poor little tiger. There is just no empathy for living things.
Flying is much too stressful for me these days as well. 🙂
From what I have been reading, a plane is not fit for man nor beast anymore! It’s a very hostile environment for people, and I would have never allowed my dog to be shoved into an overhead bin. 😦 So unless it is an emergency, I’ll drive or take a train – and as the Ramones said ‘I wanna be sedated’. Overpopulation just ruins everything for everybody.
I worry that because flying has become an overcrowded, unruly mess that the angry mobs are going to start taking out their frustrations on the weak – meaning animals and people with service animals. I have read that people have been complaining in large numbers about animals in the cabin, so it comes as no surprise that United would acquiesce to them. United has the highest number of animal deaths out of any airline, I have read. Flying is really no better than taking the bus today. It’s not so much kids (whom you would expect to be tired and cranky at times) but the immature adults! Now that I am semi-retired (yay!), I have more time to travel at a more leisurely, scenic pace.
I’d never entrust any pet to a cargo hold, even before the recent furors. My little one now I wouldn’t say is a rescue (she seems to have come from a good home and well-treated), but more like re-homed. The person could no longer keep her, so I have her.
Some people on planes are just out of control. They act the way people on the Internet talk. And the planes keep adding more seats, so everyone is just crammed in. That doesn’t help.
Years ago we flew our dogs sometimes when the train routes took hours and hours and the plane took one to three hours. Nowadays about the only thing I would want to do is drive.
Not a big fan myself of flying. About 30 minutes after take-off I’m airsick.