AR-News: (UK) Guide Dogs Set to Get All-Clear to Fly with Owners

[Animalara2003 at aol.com]

By John Ives, PA News 


Guide dogs will soon be allowed to travel with their owners in aircraft 
cabins during long-haul flights to Britain, the Government has said.

The news comes after a blind American man travelled to London this week to 
press for a change to regulations he claimed amounted to discrimination against 
people with assistance dogs.

Michael Osborn said barring dogs from a plane’s cabin was making Britain’s 
blind population “hostages in their own country“.

And today he accused the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural 
Affairs of a “smokescreen” over its claim that impending EU regulations will end 
the current ban he has been campaigning against for more than a year.

Currently, dogs travelling to the UK on flights of more than five hours must 
be kept in sealed crates, usually in a plane’s cargo hold.

The ban is in place to protect the country against rabies and other diseases 
and also for the benefit of other air passengers.









full story:

http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=2590899 







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