[Vision2020] Dash the Cat Being Evicted From Airport

[Kai Eiselein, Editor]

Let's see:
Dogs and cats are allowed as carry on luggage in a carrier as long as the 
carrier fits under the seat, but a cat isn't allowed in the terminal???
On my last three trips by plane, I've seen dogs out of their carriers, on 
leashes in LAX, Maui, Spokane and MacArthur.
So what the hell is the difference between having an animal in a carrier, 
which is vented and  allows allergens to freely float around, and a cat that 
runs around freely, and earns its keep?
This is typical asinine, to-the-letter, bureaucratic BS to the hilt.

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From: "Dan Carscallen" <areaman at moscow.com>
Sent: Monday, February 02, 2009 1:55 PM
To: <vision2020 at moscow.com>
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Dash the Cat Being Evicted From Airport

> Saundra, and vizzz peeps,
>
> Dash pretty much has free run of the terminal.  I was there the other day
> picking someone up, and my daughter found the cat and they had some time
> together.
>
> I can understand how some people could have a problem, and I'm not much of 
> a
> cat fan either, but the lack of mice is always a good thing.
>
> DC
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: vision2020-bounces at moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces at moscow.com]
> On Behalf Of Saundra Lund
> Sent: Monday, February 02, 2009 1:51 PM
> To: 'Tom Hansen'; vision2020 at moscow.com; vandal at uidaho.edu
> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Dash the Cat Being Evicted From Airport
>
> Thanks, Tom, for sharing this shining example of our tax dollars hard at
> work!
>
> If I'm correctly understanding, the concern seems to be allergic 
> passengers?
> Last time I was at the airport, passengers weren't allowed in the back 
> room
> -- has that changed?
>
> Or, have they mistaken Dash for a terrorist?  No, I guess that isn't the
> case or else she'd have already been subject to extreme rendition.
>
> Hey -- maybe I can get the TSA to ban passengers who wear way too much
> perfume & aftershave on flights . . . I know several people who suffer
> allergic symptoms from that kind of air pollution.  And, while I'm at it,
> let's get all those passengers & employees with colds & the flu & other
> communicable diseases banned from airports & flights -- they present a
> health risk to the rest of us.
>
> I'll be curious to see what the TSA has to say & I'll be happy to share
> their response  :-)  For others who may want to share their thoughts on 
> this
> fine use of our tax dollars, feel free to let the TSA know:
> https://contact.tsa.dhs.gov/DynaForm.aspx?FormID=110
>
> KUDOS, BTW, to our local airport folks for their care of this wonderful 
> cat.
> In today's society, it's far too easy for way too many people to turn a
> blind eye to the suffering of the least of us, but they didn't do that.
> We're lucky to have such compassionate folks at our airport!
>
>
>
> Saundra Lund
> Moscow, ID
>
> The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do
> nothing.
> ~ Edmund Burke
>
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> plus
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: vision2020-bounces at moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces at moscow.com]
> On Behalf Of Tom Hansen
> Sent: Monday, February 02, 2009 1:04 PM
> To: vision2020 at moscow.com; vandal at uidaho.edu
> Subject: [Vision2020] Dash the Cat Being Evicted From Airport
>
>
> Courtest of today's (February 2, 2009) Moscow-Pullman Daily News.
>
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>
> Dash the cat being evicted from airport
> Employees seeking new home for 4-year-old flame point Siamese
>
> By Erin Fenner, For the Daily News
> February 2, 2009
>
> Dash the cat needs a new home.
>
> ----------------
>
> Dash plays with a string held by Blanche Anderson at the Pullman-Moscow
> Regional Airport on Friday. Regional managers from the Transportation
> Safety Administration recently decided Dash can no longer live in the back
> room of the airport. Anderson is a federal security officer at the 
> airport.
>
> http://www.dnews.com/images/3019337.jpg
>
> ----------------
>
> Pullman-Moscow Regional Airport Manager Robb Parish said regional managers
> from the Transportation Safety Administration recently decided Dash can't
> live in the back room of the airport anymore.
>
> She can't live in the terminal, either, because of the risk posed to
> passengers with allergies.
>
> Airport employees are trying to find a good family who wants to adopt 
> Dash.
>
> The 4-year-old flame point Siamese has been a fixture at the airport since
> she was found as a kitten trying to board one of the planes.
>
> She was barely alive, and employees took turns taking her to the
> veterinarian until she recovered.
>
> Parish said Dash is a people cat. She acts bored when people are not
> around and often goes into a corner and falls asleep.
>
> "She seems to enjoy it when the terminal fills up with people," he said.
>
> TSA employee Kim Mordhorst said Dash is good with children because she
> recognizes she has to be gentle with them.
>
> TSA employee Lee Zimmerman said Dash likes to chase people's pant legs and
> swat at them like she is playing tag.
>
> "She has been a therapeutic cat for the passengers who come and go," TSA
> employee Blanche Anderson said.
>
> Employees said Dash will be missed at the airport.
>
> Zimmerman said there hasn't been a mouse in the back room since Dash has
> lived there.
>
> He said families come to the airport just to see the cat and don't even
> get on a plane.
>
> Mordhorst said people who fly into the airport sometimes bring her cat
> toys and treats.
>
> Parish hopes to find Dash a home with an active family because she's so
> playful.
>
> Mordhorst said Dash would be happy anywhere where she can be pampered and
> allowed to rule the roost.
>
> Most airport employees are not in a position to take Dash themselves
> because they are renting or already have animals, Mordhorst said.
>
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>
> Flying out of Moscow will no longer be the same . . . not without Dash.
>
> Seeya round town, Moscow.
>
> Tom Hansen
> Moscow, Idaho
>
>
> "For a lapsed Lutheran born-again Buddhist pan-Humanist Universalist
> Unitarian Wiccan Agnostic like myself there's really no reason ever to go
> to work."
>
> - Roy Zimmerman
>
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