People like you should be invited to pre-board! Thank you for being a good pet owner!

I have a 9 yr old Boxer and a 5 yr old English Bull Dog, both are awesome, but I think it's best they stay at home with us or the nanny. Both are lovers and very well behaved, but the Bull Dog is 98lbs, and when he decides to do something, not a human on the planet will stop him. His love of food, even UA food, would be a problem on the airplane. He would eat sand if he thought it had some value and a decent smell.

I'm 100% confident he would make national news if I ever allowed him to travel with me. He would guarantee nothing goes to waist at every airport.

Interesting reading about all the dog stories. Some are definitely DYKWIA, but maybe there should be a spin-off thread:
DYKWDTI (Do You Know Who's Dog This Is?)

At first I thought you meant "waste" but then I thought maybe you meant it wouldn't go to your waist. :confused: :p

We could do dogs and CHILDREN, all in one thread.

Mass hysteria!

Good catch! Yes, it should be waste! And yes, he will eat anything and everything.

You have airport police arrest them for vandalism and send them a bill for the cleaning costs, the same way if they damage any other airport property.

Yes, drop an ice cream cone and make a mess on the floor, walk away -- get arrested! And get sent a bill for the cleaning costs! That's how airports work.

Aside from the side that ice cream is not the same as a biological hazard like feces (or is that a new euphemism?), it is highly foreseeable that a dog not wearing a diaper will poop on the floor.

People freak out when someone puts their feet (with or without shoes) on a lounge table ...
You damage stuff on accident, like dinging a car , you're still responsible. It's called personal responsibility.

People freak out, yes, but no one is arrested or fined. An airport worker or other traveller telling the offender that their behavior is unacceptable, and would they please return to clean up the poop -- yes, that would be fine.

I'm not saying dog owners should allow their dogs to poop in airports and then not clean it up. I'm saying your proposed solution (arrest them and send them a cleaning bill) is way out of line, both with what is currently the practice and what I believe should be the practice. I've spent a lot of time in airports and I've never seen anyone arrested for failing to clean up after themselves (or their pets, children, etc.). I've also never seen anyone billed for a clean-up job that would take less than 10 minutes. I think if they did so, there would (rightfully) be a public outcry and bad press for the airport authority. That's not the correct solution.

Airports are public places, and there's a certain amount of cleaning up people's mess that comes with that. The idea that anyone who drops food, has a dog poop, or tracks in mud from outdoors should be billed is nonsensical. If there was permanent damage and that piece of flooring had to replaced, then maybe we can talk.

(And I don't think it's "highly foreseeable" that a dog without a diaper will poop inside -- many dogs are trained not to poop indoors. This may have been a freak accident. Or it may have been a poorly trained dog. We don't know.)

To be fair, a lot of cities impose fines for those who do not clean up after their dog in public. As an example, NYC has a $250 fine. The trick is enforcement, but I don't see why that type of rule couldn't be applied to an airport.

I don't know how you'd steam clean and sanitize carpet in 10 minutes.

My reference to arrest would be if they walked away without cleaning, the same way you'd get arrested for leaving the scene of an accident or hit and run., that wouldn't happen otherwise had you stayed.
You say mess, I say property damage.

Sure accidents happen, but actively choosing to litter is a different story. If some person stops what they're doing, thinks, and then actively decides to throw their ice cream in the middle of the floor and knowingly walks away, then they should be fined or arrested...

I don't think UA wants a Dr Dao's dog incident.