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Delta pays $2,800 for a lost dog worth $20,000
I never actually thought about what happens when airlines lose people's pets. Airlines lose bags all the time, and people travel with pets all the time. The odds make it inevitable.
I missed the 2006 story of Vivi the award-winning whippet, who disappeared from her crate at New York's JFK airport after competing at the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show two years ago. According to this NY Times article, her disappearance prompted an extensive, frenzied and fruitless search (including 100 local volunteers) in the states of New York and New Jersey. Delta Air Lines paid her owners a flat fee of $2,800 as it would for a lost piece of luggage of comparable size. Aside from her emotional value, Vivi the Champion was worth about $20,000.
Her owners have not lost all hope. Recently, they have been talking to animal psychics who have revealed that Vivi is alive and well, and living in Brooklyn.
What strange things have been found on planes?
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Reader Comments (Page 2 of 2)
SS Feb 12th 2008 11:44AM
Out of all the bitchin on here about service and all the money the airlines make. Blah Blah Blah. Airlines DO NOT make bank on every flight. A flight from ny to ca the company may bank about 2000. IF that. You guys don't realize how much fuel costs, How much the shitty food your eating costs, or how much it cost to deice an aircraft. Fuel cost anywhere from 4.22 all the way up to 6.00 a gallon. It depends on what state your in. Jeta fuel where i am we charge 4.28 a gallon and we are the cheapest on the feild. Before you start spouting off about how expensive it is to fly, think about how much money the airlines DO NOT make when your bitchin.
JT Feb 12th 2008 12:12PM
I worked for Northwest Airlines in the late 80s....loaded planes in Minneapolis/ St Paul. While I was there a small box was lost in transit. It was very valuable to the owners and an all out search was ordered to find it....it wasn't found until spring thaw when the snow berms made by plows, around the ramp, started to melt away...voila, there was the box that had been lost for nearly 3 months..and in it was an urn holding someones cremated ashes. No wonder the company never told us what we were looking for.
LL5000 Feb 12th 2008 12:19PM
I've SEEN that dog recently!! The dog-psychics were right, he IS in Brooklyn. I saw the dog taking a DUMP on a sidewalk at Kings Highway and E. 14th Street about a month ago!
jeffskoenig Feb 12th 2008 12:31PM
LL5000-
Haha, very funny, that made me laugh about the dog taking a dump.
"I only breed once or maybe twice a year and none of my bitches is ever bred more than 2 or 3 times."
That was a quote from Dachsie Jewel. When I read that I laughed...A LOT. Haha, that is so funny. I know it's the correct terminology, but still funny.
Well, my bitches breed only when I tell them to.
Margaret Duhon Feb 12th 2008 12:55PM
This message if to miss know it all Stacy, go stick your head between your legs and see if you can view your ass.
See you on the crappy Greyhound, No Peanuts, No Flight Attendent, No 12 year old pilot, but a lot of dirty stinky people that are close to homelessness, maybe some soup kitchen sandwiches to pass around and a driver that may or may not speak english so you can ask him "Where is this bus going"??
YOU IDIOT!!!!
SS Feb 15th 2008 12:26AM
Well said
Barbara Feb 12th 2008 12:43PM
If anyone has seen this dog and/or knows of his well being should have the decency to inform the owner!
It's one thing for the psychics to say the dog is well and doesn't want to return to show life, but it still doesn't ease the owner's heartache.
Many years ago my family adopted a whippet as a favor to a friend and this dog turned out to be a loyal, devoted, loved pet for many, many years - one of the nicest, gentlest, cleanest dogs we have ever owned. He was a sensitive, loving fella and knowing what he was like, I wished like heck the owners could finally find out what happened to Vivi.
dachsie jewels Feb 12th 2008 2:08PM
jeffskoenig, what breed to you have and do you make your puppy owners sign a contract that is enforcable? Do you unconditionally take any puppy back NO MATTER WHAT? Can you assure the health of that puppy? Have you paid to have all of your dogs tested for genetic health issues? If you do, I congratulate you for your exceptional breeding program. I guess that I 'tell my bitches' when to breed in that I select the dog that I will breed to, drive to that persons home or kennel (I never fly, that is why I have a motor home) and only breed for the betterment. I know that is also your program.
Hope to see you in 2 years at Westminster, I will be there.
jeffskoenig Feb 12th 2008 3:05PM
Dachsie-
99% of my post was not serious at all. I was pertaining to the fact that you used to word bitch. And I even said though you use the correct wording (female dog) it was still funny to read. So then I came back in a sarcastic way saying, "my bitches bread whenever they want". Joking to the fact that I have many bitches of my own (not of the canine kind), and they bread when I tell them to.
That was kind of the jist of my post, nothing serious at all. I am not a dog breader nor will I ever be, just going off of your bitches sentence because I found it humerous, nothing more, no harm no foul.
Actually just a question since you are a breader and know a lot about all this show stuff. Why would anyone bread a giant poodle, they are absolutely hideous. In fact, 3/4 of the dogs I see on shows aren't very attractive at all. I guess this isn't like a Miss America Pageant though.
I hope you do well at Westminster in 2 years.