Dog found dead in carrier during Delta Air Lines layover near Detroit
Alejandro, an eight-year-old Pomeranian, was flying from Arizona to New Jersey when he died during a layover in Michigan
Yet another flight has ended in tragedy for a pet dog, after Alejandro, an eight-year-old Pomeranian, was found dead in his carrier during a layover at Detroit Metropolitan Airport.
“I want to know what happened," Michael Dellegrazie, Alejandro’s owner, told ABC News. "The dog is not a pet. He's a member of our family.”
Dellegrazie and his girlfriend were moving from Phoenix, Arizona, to Newark, New Jersey, when Alejandro’s body was found in a Delta cargo facility in Detroit on Wednesday morning.
“There was a stop in Detroit at approximately 6 o’clock in the morning," Dellegrazie’s lawyer, Evan Oshan, told ABC News.
"Alejandro was checked on. He was fine. Then approximately at 8 o’clock and 8:30 in the morning, the dog was again checked on, he was dead, and there was vomit in the cage, according to Delta.”
