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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Interview with the owner just came out

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/dog-owner-united-disregarded-pet-barks-article-1.3873638

Dog owner says United disregarded her pet’s barks for help before it died in overhead bin

From the interview:

Robledo tearfully recalled not being able to check on her dog, because her newborn was on her lap.

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Robledo tearfully recalled not being able to check on her dog, because her newborn was on her lap.
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A mother of two was forced to watch her French bulldog get stuffed into the overhead compartment of a United Airlines flight, begging a hostess not to put the ill-fated pooch up there.

Catalina Robledo helplessly listened to the dog, Kokito, yelp before eventually dying aboard the Houston-to-New York flight Monday, she told Telemundo.

“The dog barked and barked but I could not stand,” because her newborn baby was on her lap and the plane was going through turbulence, Robledo said in Spanish.

The flight crew, she continued, did nothing as Kokito barked.

Dog dies after being stored overhead during United flight

Kokito was reportedly in a dog carrier that the flight crew said was blocking the aisle, so a stewardess put the case in the overhead storage bin.

Robledo and people sitting nearby tried to explain there was a dog inside, passengers said.

She wasn’t able to get to Kokito until four hours later as the plane arrived at LaGuardia Airport.

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“I grabbed him on the floor and said: ‘Kokito breathe, breathe,’” she told Telemundo in Spanish. “But he was already dead.”

The stewardess claimed she didn’t know there was a dog inside the carrier, Robledo said, and left the plane crying.[/quote]

Based on that article, my guess is that the carrier with the dog inside didn't actually fit under the seat in front of them (or maybe the area was filled with other bags they didn't want to put overhead) so they had it in the foot area, potentially hanging out into the aisle. Flight attendant told them it had to go under the seat or overhead, family said there wasn't room under seat, so flight attendant put it overhead. If she knew there was a dog in there (hard to imagine she didn't), flight attendant was totally in the wrong, she should have had the family deplane and find another way to transport the dog home. If she truly didn't know, then it's on the family.
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Personally, I would have volunteered to deplane before allowing my pet to be placed in an overhead bin, [/b]but maybe their circumstances were different.[/quote]

Agree with this. It doesn't sound like the owner cared very much about her dog at all. That's what gets me about all these people constantly bringing their pets everywhere - it's not at all about the welfare of the animal. If you don't care that much about your dog (would she have allowed the flight attendant to put her infant in the overhead compartment?), you can't expect others to. [/quote]

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