(CNN) The folks running TSA security checkpoints at airports have some genuine humdingers to outline the important things they discover. Soiled money. Inert grenades. Drugs inside scrunchies.
But cats? Live cats? Tucked inside carry-ons? It’s took place previously, and now it’s taken place once again.
On Friday early morning at Norfolk International Airport in Virginia, a feline was found inside a traveler’s carry-on bag throughout a security screening.
The Transportation Security Administration launched an X-ray picture of the poor family pet cat in its authorities Twitter feed.
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The tweet featured among the TSA normal puns: “Attention family pet owners: Please do not send your family pet through the X-ray system. Cat-astrophic error!”
How to appropriately board your little family pet
How did all of this even concerned occur?
“This was a case where the guest was taking a trip with their family pet,” LIsa Farbstein, a representative for the TSA, informed CNN Travel by email on Friday afternoon. “They understood the family pet remained in a carry-on bag, due to the fact that this was a family pet travel case/container.
“It appears that the specific either did not understand to eliminate the family pet 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 family pet from a bring case and bring it through the stroll-through metal detector or walk the family pet 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.”
This press release from the TSA this past Christmas has some ideas, and you can learn extra standards from the Federal Aviation Administration.
