Fancy Flying Cats! Woman Says Kitty's Airline Ticket Costs Fortune

I think the woman taking her cat to Virginia got off cheap since Pets travel as baggage in a partially pressurized section of the cargo hold. the airlines could have classified the cat as luggage and charged her even more for bringing on excessive baggage.

so the owner paid a discounted fare which isnt offered to the fucking cat. and id HATE to be on a flight with a cat, especially with my allergies to them.

what if someone is allergic? i'd demand a refund if someone made me sit next to a cat for a few hours

So wait, can I demand a refund when the women next to me wears perfume so strong I sneeze the whole flight? I took a flight in June where I sneezed all 4 hours because the women next to me bathed in perfume and then proceeded to apply more. I'm strongly allergic to smells like that and get bad migraines.

Do I also get to demand a refund when the mother next to me with her kid on her lap pulls at my hair half the flight and wails? Had that flight to.

Boy, look at all the money I could have gotten back!

give me your email and ill send you my picture, this

way when you dream about me it will really be me in there...

nighty nite loser.

Anybody who thinks cats don't scream has never traveled with a cat.

Um, forget the cat, the price for you luggage flying cost more than your ticket.

they should have charged her a penalty for naming her kitty "tiramisu"

Tie them to the wing.

i once killed a cat, but i was about 9 years old,

ive moved one to bigger and better things. what you gonna do sucka?

type furiously? email viciously? blog adamently?

comment angrily? flex those bad bad finger muscles and post a rant on craiglist sucka.

yeah right, punk.

No, I just respond that you are a miserable fuck and you know it which is why you posted such a comment. Most animal abusers are very ugly inside and outside and they are actually jealous of the animals they abused since the abuser knows how ugly he is and how no one really like him. Misery likes company and unfortunately animals are trapped in the abuser's home.

I would pay about an 8-10% premium for a flight that had a separated child section in the back of the plane so I can't hear the screaming. The airline could then pass that extra premium on to the family as a discounted "family flier section" or something. This has to pencil out. Please won't some airline try it? They can design the family section in bright colors with goofy cartoons or something and have special meals and separate kids movies. They would corner the market on both the families and the singles who want quiet. Please - anything to get other peoples' screaming filth-ridden appendages out of my face.

There was a Hooters Airline once, right? So how 'bout a Chuck E Cheese Airways? Just give those rugrats their own rookery in the sky.

ha! forgiven, but do not forget the rules:

the first rule of Gothamist SpellCheck-Gestapo is, you do not talk about Gothamist SpellCheck-Gestapo.

The only problem I have with this story is that the kids who fly for free aren't stowed away in pet carriers.

Or tranquilized!

my cat loves the airport because he can get good deals at the duty-free shops.

They charge that much because they know most people will only travel with their pets because they really have to. There's nothing wrong with that. Why is this news?

Fancy Flying Felines? Alliteration win?

There's no way the airline is making any money on Rosario Gonzalez's $177 round trip ticket so she's not in a position to be looking for free extras.

But then the airlines loses more with those that paid the same fare with children under 2 who take extra seats free of charge

Children under two do not fly free when they take up a seat. The only way for a child to fly free is to sit on a parent's lap.

ah, then most parents pay rather than have their kids sit on their laps. I never seen a child over 1 years old on their parent's lap on the planes. I seen infants but than kids under 2 on laps. LOL.

That's true if you're not on a full flight. If there are empty seats of course the child can sit in one, and if a flight is nearly full with scattered vacancies you'll see parents or flight attendants asking someone if they'll move to allow a parent to sit with the child.

I saw this story, tiramisu is really a cute cat.

What does an airline do when a cat is seated next to someone who is allergic?

The same thing they do every time I find myself sitting next to some stank, cologne-covered asshole: absolutely nothing. I so enjoy the allergic reaction that comes from sitting next to these people, who have generally used so much perfume they've killed all their own smell nerves. That way, if the trip is short, the whole trip will be ruined by how sick I get!

uh did they say "4 Pound Kitten"?????

im allergic as shit to cats, i would have to put a bag on it

I think it would be kinder to the passengers if you put a bag on your face, zing.

I'd rather sit next to a fattie and have to surrender my meal than sneeze the entire flight as Tiramisu and the spinster try to convince me that living on the other side of Prospect Park is just like living in Park Slope.

exactly. I am extremely allergic to cats--I can barely sit next to someone who has cat hair ON THEM, muchless a full cat. I guess they would have to switch seats...?

my cat allergies have thankfully lessened as i've gotten older, but my sister can't so much as take her brother in law's coat from him when he visits without getting seriously ill. we can't have peanuts on the plane, but someone sitting next to me can complain about how much it's costing them to make me sick.

Oh, the airlines still have peanuts as snacks. Haven't you noticed? I have, because I'm allergic (but not so allergic that I can't be near them)... I get offered peanuts all the time on flights.

Since the air is filtered on a plain, and cats are confined to carriers, you'd have more to worry about if someone has hair on their clothes.

When I traveled with a cat, multiple people didn't notice until the end of the flight, when they promptly informed me that they were deathly allergic and should have been informed. Note that they didn't have puffy eyes, runny nose, or any sneezing.

seat them next to a fattie.

they'll never complain about a little pussy again.

"Gonzalez wonders why children under the age of 2 can fly for free"

I wonder the same thing.

Ok. In the spirit of fareness, lets charge for the little brats too!

Pun intended.

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I had a feeling someone would cite that page. I had no choice! The Gothamist SpellCheck-Gestapo would've came after me.

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I think I just seized.

Seems about right. When my cat was shipped from her breeder, she came via airline, in the cabin rather than in the cargo hold. Cost was $130, while it would have cost me about $200 roundtrip. But I also would have had to take the day off if I wanted to fly there myself.

Well golly gee! Just think: if you'd rescued a cat from a shelter instead of supporting an abusive breeding industry, it would have cost you subway fare--and you wouldn't have contributed to the the death of another shelter animal.

I could have saved even more money by not getting a cat at all. Would that have made you happy? You're mistaken. I wasn't complaining about the cost, just saying it didn't seem excessive. Save your extremist "all breeders are bad" viewpoint for someone more gullible. For my money, I received a beautiful championship-winning cat already spayed, and she is now into her late teens without ever having had any behavioral or major medical problems. I might say that adopting a cat of unknown lineage is being penny-wise and pound-foolish if you end up having to pay thousands of dollars for medical care later.

So when was the last time you trapped and altered a feral? If you're not part of the solution, then you're part of the problem you decry.

Over the years, my family has taken in well over 10 cats. For the grand price of a $60 spay/neuter, I've never had a cat for under 18 years. Hope your princess cat that cost more than three of mine just for airfare lasts that long.

What are you trying to imply? No matter how "healthy" your cats are, does that make mine unhealthy and "inbred"? Must be why the vet says she looks 10 years younger than she is, with not a single blood test coming back abnormal during her last checkup. 18? Been there, done that.

Either you're abnormally long-lived or you're a cat hoarder. Why don't you take in a few more instead of wondering what others are doing? I know a lot of people with cats, including a couple who run a rescue operation. One woman used to have a little dog and when he passed away, was inspired by my cat to adopt one then later two more cats. None have a problem with purebreds and find mine beautiful, sweet and adorable. But somehow, strangers and extremists on the Internet think they know everything.

You're the problem. It would have been better if you didn't get a cat at all. bullshit, cats in shelter aren't more prone to illness but in fact the cats from the breeders suffer from many genetic illness due to inbreeding.. All cats are champions. Shame on you.

Interesting. Finally a "felixthecat" pretender who's actually as insane as the original.

Interesting, how you can't refute the facts. Shame on you. You funded a cat mill for you own perversion. It would have been better for the cats if you didn't buy one. To produce cats which closely meet the breed standard, breeders commonly mate together animals which are related and which share desirable characteristics. However, inbreeding holds potential problems. The limited gene-pool caused by continued inbreeding means that deleterious genes become widespread and the breed loses vigour. Laboratory animal suppliers depend on this to create uniform strains of animal which are immuno-depressed or breed true for a particular disorder e.g. epilepsy. Such animals are so inbred as to be genetically identical (clones!), a situation normally only seen in identical twins.

People as you are the reason why there is so much animal suffering. Shame on you.

Yeah, yeah. Whatever. You go copying and pasting some text from an anti-breeder site and that makes so suddenly so smart. Apparently so much smarter than my breeder, who is both a DVM and a PhD and limits her "kitten mill" to 3-4 litters per year. Yup, must be all that inbreeding that has kept my cat healthy all these years. Lunatics like you just like to spout the same old same old without ever actually having firsthand experience with either purebreds or science.

Have you contributed all of your nonessential cash to expand shelters and fund neuter and spay programs yet? I didn't think so. Shame on you, hypocrite.

+1

solution: leave your pussy at home.

JDS that last line is motherf*&king priceless.

That picture made my day. Thanks. Everyone staring at me because I just bursted with laughter. OH, pussy.

Is that really why they are staring? hmmm...

You're an exception to the pussy rule - pussies are hot.