from: stephanie hart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dee's Email is is malfunctioning and she can't send this post! She got it to me somehow and asked if I could send it right away! Steph ********************* (from: Dee Unrau [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) Right this moment I am� so P***ed off at every single heads-up-their-butts major airline company in North America that I don't know whether to cry or scream or what.� Here's the situation: � Last Friday, Aug 31, I sent my girl (the apple of my eye of course, oh yes of course it just had to be my favourite dog in the world!) out on Air Canada on a direct flight to San Francisco to be bred.� At the time I had already asked this question of Vancouver Air Canada Cargo who takes all the bookings but I wanted confirmation from a live body at Edmonton International Air Canada Cargo before I let _my_ dog out of my sight that I would have NO trouble getting her back here to me this Friday, Sept 7th.� I was assured beyond all shadow of a doubt not to worry, not to fret, all would be well.� Be sure to bring my proof of ownership and Bob's your uncle.� Horse FEATHERS!! � It turns out that Air Canada is the ONLY airline that flies direct back from San Francisco to Edmonton - good, right?� Well, little glitch here - the Cargo and the Customs employees neglected to tell me that whoever ships her from San Fran also must have an account with Air Canada!!� $%(&*$^%@*$, and other unladylike language! � The owner of the stud dog dog not have a shipper # with Air Canada, but he is doing his best to hunt one up.� In the meantime I feel helpless and at the mercy of the powers that be and like my beautiful girl is being held hostage in a forein land by the FAA!� The FAA regulations apparently mean that anyone who tries to send her back to me must be a known shipper, and yet in my years shipping dogs out for rescue many times into the US I have never once had any difficulties!� Northwest can take her too, from a known shipper, but she would be intransit for 12 hours for a 3 hour flight;� they would route her through Minneapolis (which of course is way the blazes�east of CA AND Alberta)!?!!� And guess what the fee would be?� More than TRIPLE what it cost her to�fly her down there, which is plain robbery. � The other alternative is simply NOT�AN OPTION - The stud owner _could_ put her with a broker/pet service to transport her back to me.� God only knows what the cost of THAT would be, but that is not why it's not an option.� I feel that it's just out of the question because they would want to KENNEL her overnight AND that means they would take her out of her crate and TOUCH my DOG !� NO WAY!!� Plus, she is not vaccinated against kennel cough and that's a barrier again.� � I am asking please that anyone on this list who _IS_ a known shipper to Air Canada (or anyone who has any ideas at all) to please volunteer your ideas/thoughts or to help me get my dog back home from San Francisco to Edmonton International Airport, Canada!!� If you can help, please email me me directly at <A HREF="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]";>[EMAIL PROTECTED]</A> as soon as possible!! � Dee Unrau, Sweetprints reg'd CKCS <A HREF="http://www.sweetprints.com/";>http://www.sweetprints.com/</A> Publisher, Cavalier Quarters Free Ezine <A HREF="http://www.sweetprints.com/cavalierquarters/Homepage.html";>http://www.sweetprints.com/cavalierquarters/Homepage.html</A> � ========================================================"Magic Commands": to stop receiving mail for awhile, click here and send the email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=SET%20CKCS-L%20NOMAIL to start it up gain click here: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=SET%20CKCS-L%20MAIL E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] for assistance. Search the Archives... http://apple.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ckcs-l.html All e-mail sent through CKCS-L is Copyright 1999 by its original author.
