[Cagdu] Flying question: why are the relief areas outside the airports?

[Ken Volonte]

Guide dogs just ain't military!  Besides, they couldn't charge us to 
exchange our tickets for a later flight.  Maybe the real reason is because 
nobody's asked if they could relieve their dogs in those areas.  I wish we 
were back in the days when you could buy your ticket in flight.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Fred's ol' XP" <regenerative at earthlink.net>
To: <cagdu at nfbcal.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2012 5:41 PM
Subject: [Cagdu] Flying question: why are the relief areas outside the 
airports?


>
> Hi CaGDUdettes and CaGDUdes,
>
> On my last few flights, I had a question pop into my head.  Have
> y'all wondered this?
> OK, you get a phone call right after your dog finishes wolfing down a
> meal.  You have to be on the next flight to wherever.  You show up at
> the airport, relieve your dog, and tromp into the airport.  Your
> flight leaves a little late, but your dog is well-trained, gets
> small, and sleeps in an impossibly small space under the seat in-front of 
> you.
> At your next airport, you have about an hour between flights.  No
> time to relieve your dog outside the security wire, but why do we
> have to leave the airport to relieve our working dogs?
> If Homeland Security and the TSA has dozens of dogs working at the
> airports, that means that they have relief areas inside the
> airport.  So:  Why can't our highly-trained guide dogs use the same
> relief areas as the guide dog drop-outs that are working for the TSA
> as  baggage sniffers?
>
> We all come in.  We all get screened.  Why can't our dogs do their
> business inside the airport?
>
> Fred Chambers
> VP - Beach Cities Chapter, NFBC
>
>
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