Up, Up, and Away
Pigeons on a Plane!
They don’t belong there, sure – but do you, Mr. Sky Miles Member?
What about your cowering dog?
Dogs are profoundly earthbound creatures. They dig in the dirt, hiding bones and chunks of carrion. They sleep on the ground and love to roll in mud, and they follow their noses, attracted by musky scents. They pursue rodents and rabbits into holes. And dogs’ wild cousins, of course, give birth in dens. Yet people, to serve their own narcissistic needs, insist that dogs leave the realm to which they’re suited — the surface of the planet — and join them on planes and go hurtling through the air, an experience no dog has ever sought but one which great numbers of dogs have been subjected to by selfish human beings. Even worse, the reason some people make dogs fly and face an ordeal they haven’t evolved to handle is that the people themselves find airborne travel unnerving and require emotional “support” to do it. But where are nervous dogs to find support? And how are they to ask for it when airline rules prohibit them from barking, and require that they be muzzled if they insist? …
