How safe is your pet when flying?

[Catherine]

This is something we worry about if we have to fly with a pet. It seems we have good reason to worry. For all the fancy promises of good care, the animals are neglected badly and some of them die from the experience.

http://news.google.ca/news/url?sr=1&ct2=...t=2&at=dt0

The idea of pet safe travel is good and the PR work to make people feel safe is well done.
It fails when it comes to the actual handling of the animals. If the baggage handlers treat pets the way they treat the rest of our luggage it is no wonder things go wrong.

I flew in Nov 1987. I still have a suitcase out there somewhere that wasn't on the plane I was on. Do you suppose it is still out there travelling? Good thing it wasn't a pet.