I can say from experience that this was NOT na upgrade. If you have a pet in cabin and the only available seat is a bulkhead, they will go on to the next person on the list. They will not ask a paid FC pax to move for a complimentary upgrade.

Dogs always get divisive on FlyerTalk. We frequently fly with ours as a pet in cabin and follow the rules to a T— he goes in his bag before we check in and stays there quietly until we get outside of baggage claim.

I think we are in the majority but as a previous poster mentioned, policy isn’t what is written, it’s what’s enforced. A small handful of people do not follow the pet in cabin or service animal rules and have poorly behaved dogs of all shapes and sizes makes everyone’s travel experience worse. It’s very disrespectful and may someday cost us all the ability to travel with pets in cabin at all.