Originally Posted by
TiredOfTooMuchTravel
I personally would never check an animal as cargo but your statement about them often ending up dead is so not true. It actually rarely happens.
Now your statement about dogs being better behaved than passengers, thats very true in most cases..
You are right. It rarely happens. "Often" was most definitely an overstatement
. However, there have been a number of stories about dead/mishandled animals in the news lately (a plane-full of dead dogs on AA and that missing DL dog in MEX come to mind). I, personally, would never check a small dog (not much choice when it comes to big dogs).
There is definitely no doubt that dogs are better behaved than most pax, and I refuse to entertain the thought of anything to the contrary