Originally Posted by
burlax
Last time I checked, we lived in the US where people treat pets better than they treat other people.
In fact, here's the NYT in 2011:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/24/he...anted=all&_r=0
“Aviation is held up as this paragon of safety, yet here’s this nasty thing that happens with no standard for reporting,” said one of the article’s authors, Dr. Melissa Mattison, associate director of hospital medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. “We know more about animals that die on airplanes than we do about people.”
(The DoT has required airlines since 2003 to report on all incidents involving loss, injury, or death of an animal during transport and the data are published in the monthly DoT Air Travel Consumer Report,
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/21/tr...on-planes.html ).