Dog dies on United Airlines Flight

[Catherine]

I remember the rabbit case. It was bad. The airline rushed to cremate the rabbit with out showing him to his owners.
Who really knows what happened.

The flight attendant can claim she didn't know there was a dog in the carrier, but the dog was barking. Other people could hear the dog barking. When she picked the carrier up she would have felt that there was a live animal inside the carrier. Live animals don't sit still and you can feel the movement.
We will never know what the flight attendant was thinking. She didn't think over her actions or she would have hesitated to put the dog at risk.
If this was one incident you could blame it on poor judgement on the part of the flight attendant. It isn't one incident, it is one more incident. That reflects back on the airline and its policies. It charges a lot to fly a pet, but doesn't act to ensure the pet travels safely.

Right now the airline is paying individuals for their loses. The airline needs to  face an investigation of its actions and show how they led to  animal deaths. Then they need to show what they should have done so that the death didn't occur. 
Sorry just isn't good enough. A little dog died under terrible circumstances. No family should ever have to deal with that.


There are some good statistics in this article.

https://www.acsh.org/news/2018/03/14/how...kill-12698

I think United Airlines is worse then we thought.