Let Us Break Down This Story About A Woman Who Flushed Her Hamster Down An Airport Toilet For You

 A woman said a Spirit Airlines employee told her that she should flush her hamster down an airport toilet if she wanted to get on a plane. Spirit says there is no way anyone said that. 

By now you have heard of the young woman who claims she flushed her hamster down an airport toilet because an airline employee told her to after she couldn't board a plane with the creature. You probably have some questions!

We're here to unpack this thing for you.

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Here's the basic information.

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belen aldecosea, 21, said she'd called spirit airways twice to verify that her hamster, pebbles, a health practitioner-licensed comfort animal, would be allowed at the nov. 21 flight. both she and the airline stated spirit told her it would be high-quality.

but, upon arriving on the baltimore airport, aldecosea said a spirit airways employee refused the animal entry — and cautioned she flush her pet down the toilet so she could get at the aircraft.

aldecosea's buddies were hours away on campus. she contacted as a minimum six car condo corporations, however it changed into a busy thanksgiving excursion week and none have been available — and she or he was too young to lease one anyway. she turned into additionally in pain because of a benign golfing ball–sized growth on her neck.

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“she became scared. i was scared. it was horrifying trying to placed her inside the toilet,” aldecosea informed the miami usher in. “i used to be emotional. i used to be crying. i sat there for a very good 10 minutes crying in the stall."

aldecosea's attorney, adam goodman, advised buzzfeed news she thought flushing the hamster could put it out of its misery faster than releasing it, in which it might necessarily die anyway.

goodman additionally stated that he's an animal lover, however that "a few human beings don’t sense that manner approximately animals."

"she’s a young girl, she’s seeking to get domestic, she has this clinical issue," goodman said. "she treated it inside the manner she notion she had to, the way she changed into pressured to."

aldecosea is considering suing spirit airways. spirit has strongly denied that any of their employees informed the female to damage her pet.

 

Aldecosea got Pebbles earlier that fall, after she developed the growth on her neck which led to a cancer scare that was later revealed to be benign. She withdrew from school and booked a flight to go home to South Florida to get it removed.

at the airport, one spirit airways worker checked the hamster in its small bring-on cage with none issues.

but, a second spirit airways employee observed her to the security checkpoint, and in a demanding trade, instructed her rodents had been not authorised on the aircraft. additionally they stated they could not test the cage in the shipment hold.

as for spirit — the airline admits that a "reservation consultant, alas, did misinform the guest that a hamster changed into authorized to fly as an emotional guide animal."

rodents of a wide variety, in addition to ferrets, spiders, snakes, and different reptiles, are not approved on spirit airlines flights.

however wait. spirit airlines additionally stated it rebooked aldecosea on a later flight — which departed approximately nine hours later — "so she had time to discover other resorts for the animal."

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"our facts imply the visitor took that later flight with out a similarly incident," spirit airlines spokesperson derek dombrowski told buzzfeed information. "we did provide the guest a voucher for the inconvenience, but we in no way heard back from her."

it changed into after she accepted the later flight and become grappling with what to do this aldecosea claims an worker suggested she either set her pet loose outside...or flush it. spirit stated that no worker advised her to flush the pet.

"it's far rather disheartening to hear this visitor reportedly determined to stop her very own pet’s existence," dombrowski stated.

so there we've got it. we will maintain you up to date with any traits. in the meantime right here are some hamsters from uruguay.