Forrest Brown, CNN • Published 3rd March 2023
On Friday early morning at Norfolk International Airport in Virginia, a feline was found inside a guest’s carry-on bag throughout a security screening.
The Transportation Security Administration launched an X-ray image of the poor animal cat in its authorities Twitter feed.
The tweet included among the TSA typical puns: “Attention animal owners: Please do not send your animal through the X-ray system. Cat-astrophic error!”
How to appropriately board your little animal
How did all of this even pertained to occur?
“This was a case where the guest was taking a trip with their animal,” LIsa Farbstein, a representative for the TSA, informed CNN Travel by email on Friday afternoon. “They understood the animal remained in a carry-on bag, since this was an animal travel case/container.
“It appears that the private either did not understand to eliminate the animal from the carry-on travel case prior to going through the checkpoint, or forgot to do so,” she said.
“When that occurs, they need to start all over once again, indicating that the guest and the cat need to start over at the checkpoint.
“The guest requires to eliminate the animal from a bring case and bring it through the stroll-through metal detector or walk the animal through the metal detector on a leash. This is common of how individuals take a trip with little dogs. In the case of a cat, if there is no leash, we highly advise that the guest demands evaluating in a personal screening room.”
She said the factor is because “cats tend to be more skittish than dogs and may wiggle, scratch, bite and leap down and attempt to escape.”
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