Heartwarming story for a passenger
United Airlines pilot adopts dog abandoned at San Francisco airport
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A 6-month-old German shepherd was adopted by a United Airlines pilot after being abandoned at San Francisco International Airport, where he arrived from China in late August.
The owner, who didn’t have the proper documents, abandoned the poor pooch and continued his trip to New York, according to the Washington Post.
“The (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) had some concern about the validity of the paperwork,” airline rep Vincent Passafiume told the paper.
“It was part of our responsibility, too.”
The CDC would not allow the dog to enter the country due to its strict rules about animals arriving from high-risk countries for rabies.
“The initial options were very grim. He would be euthanized upon getting back to China or locally put down,” Passafiume explained about the pup’s ruff predicament.
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