Harry Reid Airport Abandoned Puppy Called Penny Gets New Home

A nine-week-old pup was ostensibly abandoned on Tues at Harry Reid International Airport. Her make is Penny, and she now has a new home.

Personnel found her close a leaving gate. She reportedly was found interior an brute carrier.

Penny was turned over to The Animal Foundation, a Las Vegas-based creature shelter. They cared for her. As of Friday, she had been placed with a young family.

She was wearing a apprehend that said “Penny,” the shelter said. The nail had a nerve on it.

She is good for you(p) and alert. She is sweetness and playful, and she loved posing for photos,” Kelsey Pizzi, a spokesperson for The Animal Foundation, told Casino.org.

She did non experience an implanted microchip. No ace has come up frontwards to repossess her. Without a microchip or a label that identifies an owner’s address, it becomes really difficult to name who previously owned the dog.

Her stock is unknown, too. Pizzi explained that visual strain identification is often unreliable and inaccurate, even past trained veterinary professionals.

“We tin can corroborate she’s really cute,” Pizzi said.

It is unknown whether any surveillance video at the airdrome showed who carried her into the terminal.

But the Las Vegas shelter was able-bodied to property her quickly. The Animal Foundation has many other animals uncommitted for adoption.

Airport Holiday Chaos

Last week, luggage was left for days inwards airports nationwide because of numerous flight of stairs cancellations. Some passengers did non regular cognize where their luggage was located, NBC News reported.

It is unknown quantity if that airline business bedlam had anything to fare with finding Penny unaccompanied in the airport.

The flight of steps delays and cancellations were blamed on the overwinter weather and other causes. More than 1 billion US passengers were impacted, NBC reported. Many passengers were stranded for several days.

Southwest Airlines unaccompanied canceled to a greater extent than 13,000 flights between Dec 22 and 29. The move around disruptions likely impacted visitors making their path to Las Vegas casinos during the holidays.

Harry Reid Airport had cautioned passengers to look big crowds in terminals during the holiday period, especially with the delays.

Even without delayed or canceled flights, on that point are situations where family line pets are flown to the incorrect airport.

Dog Sent to Wrong Country

For instance, Madison and King James I Arthur Miller resettled of late from England to Tennessee.

But their dog, Bluebell, a five-year-old black Labrador mix, was accidentally flown to Saudi Arabian Arabia, NPR reported lowest month.

IAG Cargo, affiliated with Brits Airways, was responsible. The Millers paid virtually $2,100 for Bluebell’s initial flight. To capture her to Tennessee, she was placed on threesome different international flights. The society covered the costs.

Bluebell is now inwards TN with her family. But the owners say she was impacted past the three-day breakup from her family. She has anxiety, too.