Make sure you’re watching your pup otherwise they might make a break for it. A dog who escaped while being loaded onto a plane in North Carolina was finally reunited with his owner after a long search.
The dog was not loaded onto his owner’s flight from Raleigh-Durham International Airport to Seattle, Washington, due to “a misstep in the loading process,” an Alaska Airlines spokesman said.
The pup, named Moose, spent the night at the airport and was taken for a walk the next morning before he was meant to be loaded onto a new flight to Seattle to be reunited with his owner. “When it was time to load [him] into the crate, [Moose] pulled away, shook loose from [his] collar and ran away,” an airline spokesman said.
Airline employees chased Moose around the tarmac and eventually ended up on the taxiway. He later vanished, causing his pursuers to scratch their heads at his disappearance.
Alaska Airlines paid for Moose’s owner to fly back to the airport the same day to join the search. Airport officials said the saga ended on the morning of March 28, 2024, when a search party made up of airport workers, firefighters and law enforcement officers located Moose nearby.
Moose “is safe and sound and had a good breakfast courtesy of an RDU K9 officer,” an airport spokesman said.
Source: https://www.wral.com/story/dog-escapes-seattle-bound-flight-at-rdu-reunited-with-owner/21350866/