Have been reading the reports case by case. Took me ten minutes, sorry.
Am not a Vet nor do I play one on TV but here is my opinion as a Dog and Cat owner. Do NOT take your pets on an airplane. For some reason this greatly distresses them. The majority of these injuries/deaths were caused by the pet attacking the cage, one would assume, trying to get out. Now most pets don’t like the cage and if you all have pets as most of you do and you’ve taken them to the Vet you know they don’t like it. However to attack the cage to injury or death means they really did not like flying.
Put Rover or Fluffy in the RV or SUV and go cross country. If nothing else put them up at your local Ritz-Doggleton Kennel time you are gone, at least they will be alive when you come home.
https://www.transportation.gov/sites/dot.gov/files/docs/United_Redacted_2016.pdf
She was a rescue and we didn’t have a dog Underground Railroad back then.
It was fly or die.
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