My friends black lab was sent to africa once.

/sorry

Should have read the baggage tags right from the get-go.

/Stupid Californians

I don't see how one dog can retrieve an entire geographic region.

Should have used ironic tag.

/5 yard penalty, still first down

Berlin Septemper 2001 (American flag)

Are they going to feed the dogs?

Rin-tin-tin goes home...

Your dog wants bratwurst.

/Can't believe I was the first to say it

Jeez, imagine the problems if the airline would have shipped a few jews to germany by mistake.

They should have bought Florida Shepherds.

I would have tried to get them to give me a round trip ticket to Frankfurt.

"Where is her BUZZY BEE?"
"I need to get it to her NOW!"

Doggone.

Yo quiero Taco Bell.

It's very cold in a cargo hold.
The dogs are probably sitting in little animal cages.
They haven't been let out to do their business.

/Ugh, the smell

Submitter: You would hardly think this story was "amusing" if it were your German Shepherds that were sent overseas. Instead of 6 hours in an aircraft, they will, by the time they finally get to Florida, have spent approximately 20 hours cooped up in a small, dark, pressurized section of an aircraft's cargo hold. It's not a pleasant experience for them, or their owners.

That being said, the owners should have checked the dogs' claim check before blithely heading off to their flight. Had they done that, they could have prevented the mix-up and the dogs would have been spared the trauma of the past 2 days.

/ *bleeding heart dog lover*

Frankfurt is about 5,000 miles from Fort Lauderdale.

Panama Canal, South America
(1000 miles south of the Real America)

poor dogs. they probably don't even speak German.


/nothin'

Your dog wants pretzels, sausauge and a Bitburger?

Is that how it works???

yeah, but did they feel the dogs up first??

VOOF!?!

Lucky the German Shepard wasn't shipped to France, they would have surrendered by now.

Not amusing. Sad, assinine, ironic, but definitely not amusing. I don't thhink the cargo hold is even pressurized (anyone know?) and I doubt it is heated.

Will anyone feed them or walk them?

What if they were on tranks to keep them calm and they wear off before returning.

/no I don't belong to PETA

I want my 3 minutes back for this one and the previous one.

Dude, can they do this to my future mom in law as well? I'd be willing to pay extra!

Bet it was a rough flight.

Next time, check them as carry-on

So they were deported then?

"For this to happen to this family is just unheard of," said Cherie Wachter of the Broward County Humane Society. "How they ended up in Germany when they were supposed to be in South Florida is just unimaginable."

Well, congratulations, Cherie Wachter! You've won Fark's Daily Overextension of the Possible Expanse of Your Knowledge/I'm Talking Out My Ass Award!

Unless you've spent a great deal of time studying just how often animals get accidentally routed to the wrong place by airlines, you have no clue whether it's unheard of or not! Maybe it hasn't been heard of by you, but you're only the head of some shiatty animal shelter, aren't you? And unimaginable? Why, I can imagine it! It's called farking up the destination, quite possibly through 1)human error in typing or 2)unreadable handwriting on a tag! Drop by the Fark Prize Claims Office for your reward, a certificate for a kick square in the ass!

R.I.P. Dayton Allen.

Glad something similar didn't happen to my Siberian Husky...

as Larry David said about German Shepherds.,"it is unusual to find something German that shows affection."


/Wife is German

ExJerseyGirl - yes, most planes have small, pressurized and heated compartments in the cargo hold. I don't think any animal would appreciate trying to breath at 30,000 feet (can you say DEATH). Of course there wouldn't be too much breathing going on if there was no heat, as it dips well into the -20 range at altitude.

/your dog wants his complimentary peanuts and eyeshades
//these dogs deserve first class upgrades

I think the tag they're looking for is

Careful, TexasDex. In Farkistan, irony doesn't exist. It happens occasionally, but only to a very elite group who will verbally assault those who mock their birthright to declare irony, should it return some day...

true d'at.

Over there, they're just called "Shepherds."

Your dog wants weinerschnitzel.

OMG!!1! This is not teh irony!!1!eleven

Send all the german men back to germany too (leave the women)