My dog would be so farking pissed off if I even considered putting him in an airline crate, let alone sending him into the bottom of an airplane without me or my husband and putting him into a big noisy machine (even bigger and noiser than the dreaded minivan). People on the plane might think there was someone being strangled in the cargo hold, he'd howl so loud.

I'd have to feed him nothing but peanut butter and steak tar tar for weeks or he'd give me those sad, droopy eyes and lots and lots of whining.

Goddamn spoiled Bassett Hound...that I love as much as my two children of course.

That lucky Dog !!

Those idiots sent me to the Sudan..Dang near didn't make it...

Am I really the first to say this...

your dog wants good beer

My grandma visted my parents and took her dog whith her. She's sitting in the plane at the terminal looking out the window. She sees her hyper little dog sprinting across the tarmac with three or four ramp guys chasing it. Evidently the dog didn't like its cage. They caught him and they both made to NJ on time.

2004-11-23 04:04:05 PM Sentient

Frankfurt is about 5,000 miles from Fort Lauderdale.

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


Not to split hairs but, the Panama Canal is in Panama (duh...) which is in Central America, not South America.

Yay Biggie Thang - two basset hound mentions in a row!!!

Also, my dog wants good beer

i farked up in gmail on a invite, if someone wants an account, email me at ax7221 at gmail dot com with ur first and last name and wut u want ur account to be named (ie: s­ometh­ing­liam­gco­m) first person gets it

I hate to think of where they would have shipped my Rhodesian Ridgeback...Morons.

evilc...I'd have to feed him nothing but peanut butter

How, exactly, would you feed him this peanut butter.
Sometimes you people make me sick

Adam Carolla for the double Florida/Germany points.

Lipspinach:

Put in on a piece of bread and stick it to the roof of its mouth.

/not that I would do that or ever condone doing this

Well dog gone it!

mahakala:

My sister flew her new dog with her from Chicago to Denver, via United. They are actually very good with the dogs, and will not schedule larger dogs to fly unless the aircraft is specially equipped with a pressurized section in the cargo hold. They ask you a lot of questions when you are booking the flight, especially about the size of the dogs (small ones, if in a crate or pet carrier, can fly in the cabin, but they must be placed in the small underseat section in front of you during takeoff and landing).

I am getting involved with a charity called "Military Mascots" where volunteers meet overseas servicemen and servicewomen's dogs when the families are shipping back to the States. Their family can't always fly on the same flight, so we volunteers meet the dogs when they arrive at the airline's airport cargo office, take them out for a walk so they can do their business, and then take them to the check-in for their next flight. For people coming back from bases in Japan, or soldiers who want to adopt dogs their troop has adopted in Iraq, this charity enables them to bring their pets home with them.

Most airline staff are dog lovers, and would hate to mis-direct any pet. The owners should have been more careful.

Better than shipping back Dead German Tourists.

evilc: Also, my dog wants good beer


Screw the dogs, I want some good beer. ....Oh and women...Big healthy German women....with sausage and onions...

Can we PLEASE stop w/ the stupid, "Your dog wants _________" cliche? Its stupid and annoying!


Ok its not that big of a deal but I'm in a pissy mood and need something to biatch about.

Lipspinach:

How, exactly, would you feed him this peanut butter.
Sometimes you people make me sick


There is one way I know, but it's NSFW.

/put peanut butter on your cat

I would be a little harder on the ticketing agent than on the passengers. The code "FRA" would have appeared instead of "FLL" and for the layman traveller I don't believe many would have noticed that.

I don't know how the computer system issued a code with that sticker however, knowing that the ticket wasn't going to FRA anyway.

Any ticketing agents out there with thoughts?

swiftheart: Any ticketing agents out there with thoughts?


Yea, but probably not good ones.


/runs and hides

Langtry

That's real cool, sounds like a worthwhile charity!

I had the misfortune to write software to talk to an airline billing system once.. it's a horrible mess that hasn't been updated since computers took up entire rooms.

/meant to say reservation not billing

Like it or not, Rodeodoc, many people think of their pets as family members, and stories like this are not remotely amusing to them. Either the submitter was trying to (for lack of a better expression)"choke our chain", or he's one of those acutely allergic types who break into hives at their mere mention of dogs, cats, etc.

Asking animal lovers to "lighten up" about stories of animal trauma or abuse is more than a tad unrealistic, don't you think?

2004-11-23 11:21:23 AM snochick

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

No kidding. Nothing I check (animal or otherwise) gets outta my sight until I look at bag tags, receipts, whatever.

Lighten up Francis.

I was going to say something, but the Brazilian bikini calendar ad has derailed my train of thought...

mahakala:

If you want to find out more about the "Military Mascots" organization, you can cutting and pasting this url:

http://www.militarymascots.org/

I ggots shumtin that mutts cann lickkk..Burp

Now if we could just send Bush back to the land of the pygmies.

Newspaper article on "Military Mascots'" work:

"A dog is a G.I.'s best friend: and vice-versa"

Warning: the stories about how the soldiers in Iraq find these dogs, in a country where being called a "dog" is the worst sort of insult, is disheartening.

* end threadjack *

They're lucky they didn't send them to South Korea ;)

This would be a great way for that couple to take a relatively minor mistake (dogs will be AWOL for a couple days tops) and make it into a great, big, hairy deal on the Internet.

Yes, the dogs were sent 5000 miles the wrong way. And a great big shiny airplaney will bring those dogs right back 5000 miles with next to zero effort and maybe a days lost time.

It's not a big deal.

Letting on hijackers is a big deal.

i think its a big deal. my dogs are like my children. i'd be royally pissed if that happened. chances are, i will never stick them on an airplane though...

/My dog wants relish and mustard, hold the mayo.
//it's a weinie dog
///do the TSA pat the dogs too?

Now, if we could only ship those Boston Terriers back to bean town...

rancidPlasma
My wife and I are moving to South Korea next summer for a couple years - we're taking our dog with us.

/They only eat a specific breed (don't know what it is though). There are tons of South Koreans with dogs as pets.
//not that anyone here cares

Big deal, least they will speak the language and feel right at home. I got off the subway in Chinatown once,......

Don't forget Polish Shepard...

Wait, is there a polish breed?

It's not cool, it's definately a mistake, but if they make it into a "But that's my baby" story, I will retch.

The airline should return the dogs ASAP, give the family some tickets maybe (no dogs allowed) and then not do it again.

One time, at band camp, this chick tried to fly to Oakand and went to Aukland instead. D'oh! I read this urban myth on the Internet, so it must be true.

As a person that has been to Germany I feel I am entitled to a lot of money from someone.

Where is the FLORI-DUH tag???

The tag is probably on a story where something stupid happened in Florida. Had you RTFA you may have noticed that the problem happened in D.C.

Asshat.

Stay out of my state.

Sentient
Frankfurt is about 5,000 miles from Fort Lauderdale.
Panama Canal, South America
(1000 miles south of the Real America)

casanunda:
Not to split hairs but, the Panama Canal is in Panama (duh...) which is in Central America, not South America.

Uh, not to split hairs, casanunda, but I think Sentient was referring to the continent of South America. Central America is not an official continent, it is actually just a region within South America.

You know, I learned something today.

You can actually say "Asshat" on Fark.com, and not get filtered.

Wow.

For some reason, I too assumed this story originated in Florida. How did we all do that at once? Any time I hear a "reactor melts down as operators smoke crack" story, I think it's from Florida. Why? How could this have happened?

Florida = FUN. Miami, Orlando, the keys, more good clubs than you can shake a glowstick at.

Could have been worse, they could have shipped the pooches to Korea!, Hey the chicken chow mein tastes funny!

ya ya, macht schnell idiot. I must get back to Dancecentrum in Stuttgart in time to see Kraftwerk"

I'm curious...is the airline feeding and watering these dogs? If not, they'll have gone from Sunday until "at least Wednesday" without food or water.