Dog dies after United flight attendant forces it into overhead bin
On Monday night, a dog died in a plane after a United Airlines flight attendant forced the dog into an overhead bin.
Maggie Gremminger, a passenger on a flight from Houston to New York’s LaGuardia Airport, uploaded a photo of the dog’s owners on Twitter. “I want to help this woman and her daughter. They lost their dog because of an @united flight attendant. My heart is broken,” reads the image caption.
The Points Guy reports that during their flight, an attendant insisted that the woman put her dog, which was held in a TSA-approved pet carrier, in an overhead bin for the rest of the flight.
Passengers heard barking during the flight, but didn’t learn that the dog had died until the flight was over.
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“There was no sound as we landed and opened his kennel,” passenger June Lara writes in a Facebook post. “There was no movement as his family called his name. I held her baby as the mother attempted to resuscitate their 10 month old puppy.”
Gremminger’s and Lara’s posts about the ordeal are now going viral on social media. United is facing online backlash.
“Another reason I will never ever fly or support doing business with United Airlines!” one Twitter user writes.
A United UAL, -2.71% spokesperson addressed the incident in a statement to The Points Guy: “This was a tragic accident that should never have occurred, as pets should never be placed in the overhead bin. We assume full responsibility for this tragedy and express our deepest condolences to the family and are committed to supporting them. We are thoroughly investigating what occurred to prevent this from ever happening again.”
According to United’s website, its policy for onboard pets is: “A pet traveling in cabin must be carried in an approved hard-sided or soft-sided kennel. The kennel must fit completely under the seat in front of the customer and remain there at all times.”
Flight Attendant wins the Clark Griswald Award for Pet Cruelty
This is a prime example what is wrong with 24/7 news and the internet.
While I don’t want any pet to die, or animal cruelty, it’s just a fucking dog. A dog dying shouldn’t be a national news item. We have elevated pets to the same level as children. It’s stupid.
Eh, it’s distracting news on a day when the tide-pod-eaters were supposedly marching at the orders of Doomberg, Soros and the NEA union. Remember kids, if drug-addled schizo (D) voters don’t shoot you up with FBI-provided rifles, United Airlines might still get you.
It’s a news item for me. I love dogs better than most people. Life would be pretty empty without a couple of dogs around.
My dogs are my children. I am as attached to them as a child.
UNITED AIRLINES
THE FRIENDLY SKY’S
THEY DON’T GIVE A DAMN ABOUT YOU, ME, OUR PROPERTY, OR OUR PETS
THE STEWARDESS SHOULD BE FIRED
UNITED SHOULD BE SUED TILL IT’S KNOW AS JOHN DOE UNITED AIRLINES
Meanwhile, a Black kid killing a Black kid in Detroit or Chicago won’t even get reported in the news, much less spark national outrage.
Maybe the public considers a dog more valuable.
I consider my dogs more valuable that a black kid in detroit.
I bet your dog’s can read / write better.
Same here
Black kids are memorialized on a t shirt.
They do. Dogs are most people’s ego extensions.
This is why I no longer fly,
it has become a living nightmare, where you give up control of your life, to someone who is “just following orders” and the worst part is that they are not following any orders at all,
they are just making shit up, as they go along.
It’s a nightmare – stuffed into an aluminum tube like steerage, exposed to all sorts of virus, and then having to put up with the moronic airline employees. I will never fly again unless it’s absolutely necessary.
Agreed. I don’t fly. I don’t go to movie theatres. I very rarely eat in at restaurants. The reason being is you can’t do what YOU want to do in those places/situations. Can’t smoke. Can’t drink your own booze. Can’t-do what you want to do when you want to do it.
We flew our dog from Guam to San Francisco via Oahu over 20 years ago. He was a lab in a large carrier in cargo. Cargo cost as much as a human economy ticket. He was well cared for in Hawaii stop with note left by handlers. I think people shouldn’t bring dogs on planes except for real disabled. Then they should buy ticket for seat room taken up for the dog. Commenters on Farce Book say that the carrier was TSA approved. Yes, true, But not FAA approved to fit under seat in front of passenger as carrier was too large. Shame on woman bringing dog on plane. Her lack of responsibility killed dog as she should have deplaned and shipped dog via cargo hold. Quit dogging United Airlines. True, FA should have had her deplane instead of demanding dog be placed in overhead but blame is on woman. But, then I think people that listen to music via headphones that is loud enough that I can hear every MF and nigger word should ride in cargo too. And while I’m on a roll put the shower shoes, pajama wearers, and no belt drawer exposers in cargo too.
Another reason why zoo flights need to end. Even a BLIND person doesn’t need their dog with them in the cabin, it’s not big enough to get lost in. The airlines should accept real service dogs ONLY and they should go in the luggage compartment, for passenger safety as much as anything else. https://www.aol.com/article/news/2017/06/08/man-bitten-in-the-face-by-passengers-emotional-support-dog/22133232/
The entire ADA needs to be repealed and should go back to Guide dogs being the only REAL service dogs, anything else should be handled and approved on a case by case basis only and only for physical disabilities since we have drugs and therapies for mental and emotional conditions. https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/sage/the-treatment-of-combat-trauma-in-veterans-using-eft-emotional-freedom-NkHiVVOuN6
Does anyone really think we’d have any blind people if they could just take a pill for it?
Dog Lives Matter. Cruelty to animals is wrong. Perps deserve punishments.
The owners who neglect dogs are like parents who should not have had children, because they do a lousy job of caring for and raising kids.
Most dog owners develop incredibly strong bonds with them; they are, in effect, treated as loving, and lovable children. A special relationship.
Having to experience the death of a long time companion dog is a difficult task, where grief is only soothed with the passage of time, & fond memories of love, loyalty, & laughter.
True, in that most owners care more for their canine companion than most people, because most people haven’t given the same undying love and loyalty to the owner as his or her dog.
Where it gets sticky, is when the owner affords more concern and creature comforts for their dogs, when known people, friends & relatives are in the same social settings as the beloved canine and it’s owner.
Counterpoints:
Should guests accept it when visiting, that the dogs comfort is given the higher priority?
Debatable.
Dog jumps up onto guests?
Dog allowed to beg during meals?
Dog allowed to hump a guests leg, or a cat to body rub all over a guests leg?
Dog allowed in bed with a man while visiting a woman? Dog sprawled out, and the two humans curled up in a fetal position to give the dog more space in said bed?
Social plans for the humans cut short, to return home and pamper the dog? i.e., let them outside, because the dog is only outside briefly, to relieve itself?
Some women smother love their dogs. Result? Sometimes, dog whimpers, whines, or destroys property due to separation anxiety.
Dog wakes earlier than it’s owner, and yelps to be fed? At 4:30 a.m.?
Bleeding heart dog owners expect other humans to match their level of courtesy and love to their pups.
They cater to the dog as if it has a fragile ego and hypersenitive emotional needs that supercede humans.
Which begs the question: Who has who trained to behave?
And some dogs snap at guests and little toddlers. It happens.
The best owners know where to draw the line, separate dogs from people when & where needed, and they establish early and reinforce often their role as the alpha.
First United was breaking guitars, now they are killing dogs.
United’s not the ONLY one…. Have had Alaska Airlines break 1 guitar, and destroyed 2 other’s cases. I no longer travel with one, and bought one to specifically keep aboard the vessel I work on…..
I thank all commenters to this Post; some funny shit.
Seems the Flight Attendant screwed the pooch.
The lesson here is to only stuff cats into the overhead bins since they have 9 lives. Dogs just have the one.
Stick your “comfort animal” where the sun don’t shine.
This wasn’t a “comfort animal,” it was just a pet, traveling in a carrier. There are many onboard flights all the time and you probably don’t even know it because they stay in their carrier. What the hell is your problem?
I haven’t flown for years. WTF is a dog doing in the passenger cabin? Isn’t that space awful enough?
Small dogs have ALWAYS traveled in the passenger cabin if they can fit into a small carrier than can fit under the seat. No big deal. Lighten up. FAR LESS TROUBLE than some whiny, crying, screaming kid.