On the first of this December, a British passenger plane took off from Heathrow Airport in London, and landed after 9 hours at Nashville Airport, the capital of the US state of Tennessee, in which two of its passengers, British James Miller and his wife Madison, who is 27 years old, discovered that their dog, Bluebell, who had transported her Before them, a shipping company disappeared from the American airport and appeared with another, 11,700 kilometers from Nashville, which is the airport in Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia.
The company apologized to the owners of the dog, in a statement in which IAG Cargo, which is affiliated as a shipping partner for British Airways, according to what Al-Arabiya.net read yesterday, Monday in the British newspaper, the Daily Mirror, that it is unaware of how a mistake was made, making the dog that was supposed to be shipped from London and placed in it. In the pet section of Nashville Airport, she transfers to another plane to the Saudi airport.
Bluebell, who smashed the door of her house with her teeth, and how she moved in the airports of 3 countries
As for the couple, they believe that their 5-year-old dog “suffered trauma” as a result of spending 60 hours in detention at the airports of 3 countries on 3 continents, and that her behavior may have changed for the worse since the accident. The door of her house in the first 10 minutes, and the second time she cried all the time, so we can’t leave her alone because she might hurt herself, because being away from us is very painful for her,” so they asked for compensation to pay for her treatment and rehabilitation.
$3,000 for a dog behaviorist
The couple also told the newspaper, and to several British media outlets that published almost the same details yesterday, that they did everything correctly “to transfer Bluebell with us to America, but what happened after the reunion was a nightmare that made us work with a veterinary medical team and another behavioral specialist to help calm her anxiety, as she She takes medication 3 times a day, but we don’t know if she’ll be the same, and it breaks our hearts,” said the couple, who are claiming $10,000 in compensation for the dog’s anxiety medication, and $3,000 for the dog behaviorist.
The trucking company said it takes its responsibility towards people’s pets very seriously: “We provided refreshments frequently to Bluebell while she was with us, and she had time to stretch her legs, including regular walks while staying 8 hours with a dedicated team at the Animal Welcome Center at Heathrow Airport. However, we understand that what happened was disturbing to her and her owners, with whom we will remain in contact to resolve the situation.” After she was transferred from Riyadh to London, and from there to Nashville again.