Airline mistakenly ships family’s Nashville-bound dog to Saudi Arabia

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[BenLurkin]

The family, who was moving from London to Tennessee, discovered the shocking snafu when they arrived at the Nashville International Airport and were given the wrong dog, according to a new report.

After about an hour, airport staff sent her a photo of Bluebell locked in her crate, confirming that she was in the middle eastern kingdom.

Miller told the outlet that she was already anxious about putting Bluebell on an hours-long flight after hearing “horror stories.

[EvilCapitalist]

Don’t muslims hate dogs?

[Jeff Chandler]

Thank goodness it wasn’t sent to China!

[stars & stripes forever]

Hope Bluebell didn’t become someone’s dinner.

[Jeff Chandler]

[Governor Dinwiddie]

Yes, that is a horror story. The ay-rabs hate dogs. And the chinamen eat them. Christmas prayers for the waylaid pooch! Get that pup back to the civilized world!

[Governor Dinwiddie]

#2: "Don't muslims hate dogs?"

Indeed they do. They hate dogs almost as much as I hate muslims.

[Dr. Sivana]

Hope Bluebell didn’t become someone’s dinner.

Eating Dog is haraam in Islam (forbidden).

It is not permissible to eat dogs, or to give them to people who will eat them, because it is haraam to eat them or to help anyone else to eat them. The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “Every animal that has fangs is haraam.” (Reported by Muslim from the hadeeth of Abu Hurayrah, may Allaah be pleased with him).
https://islamqa.info/en/answers/1101/dogs-as-food

[dfwgator]

They hate dogs about as much as Mitt Romney does.

[Nomad577]

Garfield sending Odie to Abu-Dhabi

[nascarnation]

It was returned to the owners three days later but is in a state of emotional distress...acting terrified (with good reason).

[stars & stripes forever]

Read the article. Bluebell was returned.

We had a cocker spaniel that ran away and was picked up by the dog catcher. He never acted the same when he was returned. He wouldn’t let strangers come close to him.

Traumatized dogs have a difficult time recovering.

[Round Earther]

Bluebell, the best tasting doggie in the country.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

Thanks for pointing that out. I went back and read the whole article. It is even worse than I could imagine.

One of my pups is a big baby and she shakes like heck when I put her in the car. She'd have a heart attack if I put her on an airplane.

[packagingguy]

It’s strange. Some do, some don’t. I just watched a video on Twitter of an Egyptian service dog shopping at an open air market shopping for his owner. The dog was alone but people knew who he was and helped.

Maybe it depends on which Muslim culture you’re dealing with; I knew Turks from graduate school who loved dogs.

[EvilCapitalist]

A dog doing the shopping? I hope it had a written list on it. Or did the shop owners understand it, like Mr. Drucker understood Arnold the pig on Green Acres?

[9422WMR]

SA/San Antonio
SA/Saudi Arabia

I could we how that could happen.🤦🏻‍♂️

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Bluebell’s owners said they hope to get some financial compensation from them for the error.

Shameless.

[Ronaldus Magnus III]

Recently overheard at the airline ticket window :

Customer: Hello, would you please send the red suitcase to Cleveland, and the blue suitcase to Chicago.

Airline employee: We can’t do that.

Customer: Why not? You did it last month!

[T-Bird45]

“Garfield sending Odie to Abu-Dhabi.”

Glad to see I wasn’t the only one remembering that TV show.