[nagdu] Service Dog's 'evacuation' forces emergency landing of US Airways flight to PHL

[Darla J. Rogers via nagdu]

Hi Marsha,

	I have been a situation--actually situations--where "holding" it
wasn't possible; one time, it was dark and nobody on sidewalks so made it
home, but digestive systems don't ask for permission to go haywire for sure.
Darla & hardworking Huck


-----Original Message-----
From: nagdu [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Marsha Drenth via
nagdu
Sent: Saturday, May 31, 2014 8:44 AM
To: NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users
Subject: Re: [nagdu] Service Dog's 'evacuation' forces emergency landing of
US Airways flight to PHL

all, I agree that this is a very ridiculous story. It's not that I have a
problem with the journalism part of it. I have more of a problem with the
passengers who made such a big deal of this. How are wages for fellow human
beings, to be so rude comment to an animal. When an animal cannot help it.
Unfortunately sometimes our digestive systems do not cooperate. It's just as
if, human, would have an accident. Granted, most of us would not let that
happen. And or most of us could hold it. But an animal cannot do that. This
poor guy dog team. I am very happy at what the Seeing eye president said. I
wish I could get onto Twitter and really tera this passengers. What happened
to normal kindness and sensitivity in a situation like this. Just my two
cents,

Marsha drenth
email: marsha.drenth at gmail.com
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> On May 31, 2014, at 6:53 AM, Ginger Kutsch via nagdu <nagdu at nfbnet.org>
wrote:
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> Dog's 'evacuation' forces emergency landing of US Airways flight to 
> PHL
> 
> By Sam  Wood
> 
> Friday, May 30, 2014,
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> http://www.philly.com/philly/news/Dogs_distress_forces_emergency_landi
> ng_of_
> US_Airways_flight_to_PHL.html?withgh
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> Airline passengers often grumble about leg room and the quality of 
> airplane food.
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> 
> There's a new complaint being aired by a few hundred souls who boarded 
> a flight Wednesday from Los Angeles to Philadelphia: Not enough 
> pooper-scoopers.
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> 
> A Philadelphia-bound US Airways flight, already two-hours delayed, was 
> forced to make an emergency landing in Missouri after a passenger's 
> service dog defecated in the aisle.
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> "It was the worst smelling blowout I've ever smelled," passenger Steve 
> McCall told Inside Edition. "It wasn't little pieces, it was 
> full-fledged dog diarrhea."
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> 
> 
> The crew was able to clean up the dog's mess. But then the situation 
> took a turn for the worse.
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> The dog pooped again.
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> The stench wafting through the cabin made several passengers sick.
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> "The second time after the dog pooped they ran out of paper towels, 
> they didn't have anything else," said McCall. "The pilot comes on the 
> radio, 'Hey, we have a situation in the back, we're going to have to 
> emergency land.' "
> 
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> 
> Outraged passengers documented the incident on Twitter and other 
> social media platforms.
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> "People started dry-heaving, a couple of people threw up," McCall 
> said. "The first time was bad, the second time people said 'You got to 
> get us out of here! This is nasty.' "
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> The plane was diverted to Kansas City. A cleaning crew scoured the aisle.
> The voyage resumed.
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> "You just had to laugh," McCall said. "It was so outrageous and out of 
> control. It was a story you couldn't make up."
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> Service dogs are "usually excellent flyers," said Bill McGlashen, 
> spokesman for US Airways. "They know how to behave and sit in the 
> right area. And this is just one of the those incidents when the dog
became ill."
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> 
> Folks who rely on service dogs every day say the incident may be much 
> ado about nothing.
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> "I'm sure this would not be a news story if a human had been sick on a 
> plane," said Jim Kutsch, president and CEO at The Seeing Eye in 
> Morristown, N.J. and a Seeing Eye dog user since 1970. "Dogs are 
> living beings and they, too, get sick."
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> 
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> Dogs routinely spend many hours without needing to relieve themselves, 
> he said. Travelers with service dogs usually adjust the feeding 
> schedules of their animals to accommodate a long flight.
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> 
> "Seeing Eye has been around since 1929, and if this is the first time 
> that a story like this gets this much attention, it obviously doesn't 
> happen very often."
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