Prize-winning show dog lost in Atlanta airport before flight to Amsterdam

[Eugene]

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Source: Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Prize-winning show dog lost in Atlanta airport before flight to Amsterdam

Clayton Updated 14 hours ago
By Asia Simone Burns, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Authorities and airport officials are trying to track down a prize-winning show dog that was lost at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport moments before she was supposed to fly home.

Gale, a 22-month-old pure-bred American Staffordshire terrier, was in Atlanta with her handlers for an event, Channel 2 Action News reported. The dog was supposed to fly back to Amsterdam after a dog show Saturday.

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But before she was boarded onto a KLM plane in Atlanta, she vanished, Channel 2 reported.

“When they tried to load my dog’s cage, it was empty and they couldn’t find her,” Gale’s owner, Floris Van Essen, told the news station. Van Essen said once the handlers got to the gate, they got a call from the terminal notifying them that Gale was gone.

The handlers were asked to board the plane while officials searched for the dog, Van Essen told Channel 2.

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Read more: https://www.ajc.com/news/breaking-news/prize-winning-show-dog-lost-atlanta-airport-before-flight-amsterdam/11CuLH8jCCyRZMXGItsQ5J/

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Update from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution (thanks japple)

Prize-winning show dog found, reunited with owner after being lost at airport

The prize-winning show dog who went missing in the world’s busiest airport has been found, authorities said.

Gale, a 22-month-old American Staffordshire terrier, will be reunited with her owner days after disappearing at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport moments before she was supposed to fly back to Amsterdam.

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Read more: https://www.ajc.com/news/breaking-news/just-prize-winning-show-dog-found-reunited-with-owner-after-being-lost-airport/va0RzOPm9T7hoRMy6SH6NL/

[Ohiogal]

1. !!!

How could you board a plane when you are told your dog is lost in the airport!!

[GemDigger]

2. Exactly! Mine is just a mutt but I would stay until I found him.

[LonePirate]

3. Lost? Was the kennel not locked/secured or did someone let the dog out, perhaps to steal it?

[customerserviceguy]

6. This isn't a pet

this is a trophy animal. My ex's folks worked in the dog show business, if you hate factory farms, then you should hate the dog show industry, too. It takes the most socialized animal ever domesticated, and removes that creature from the comfort of the human species that it was bred to crave.

At least cattle and chickens are relatively indifferent to being around us.

[NCjack]

7. Run, Gale, run. nt

[Dr Vegas]

4. Lost or did She Escape?

[Eugene]

5. Per KLM, "a dog managed to break out of its cage as it was being loaded into the cargo

of flight KL-622 from Atlanta to Amsterdam on March 23."

[japple]

8. Prize-winning show dog found-reunited with owner after being lost at ATL airport

https://www.ajc.com/news/breaking-news/just-prize-winning-show-dog-found-reunited-with-owner-after-being-lost-airport/va0RzOPm9T7hoRMy6SH6NL/

[Eugene]

9. Thank you. I will note it on the OP.

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[irisblue]

10. Good. Good