I gotta go….doggie bathroom…at the airport

Airports should have bathrooms for us pups…we travel just like humans do!The federal government is making this happen for us pups cuz of the service dogs! There are a few airports that have bathroom areas for us…Chicago O’ Hare, Phoenix, Atlanta, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Washington National, and Washington Dulles.

“Many of our members travel,” says Melanie Brunson, executive director of the American Council of the Blind, which pushed for the rule. “Increasingly, you don’t get much time between flights. You don’t have a whole lot of time to take care of your dog’s needs.”

The bathrooms are mostly outside and required to be kept clean and odor free and proper drainage! Some have fake grass and even a fire hydrant. I was coming home from Phoenix, Arizona one time with my family and a rest area for pups, even had rattle snakes!

If this was at an airport, it would be way in the boondocks! Federal government now made changes last year to the Air Carrier Access Act that says, that says, people with disabilities have to have convenient relief areas. Sometimes there is not enough time between flights and sometimes one does not want to go far to………..go!

“If there was one (before),” she says, “it was in the boondocks, and (travelers) didn’t have much time to get there.”

Neva Fairchild of Carrollton, Texas, who has a service dog and is an American Foundation for the Blind employee, says it can be embarrassing for owners of dogs that relieve themselves at an airport curb.

“I can understand if people are offended by dogs relieving themselves at a pole 20 feet from the airport,” she says. “But when the dog has to go, it has to go.”

Us pups deserve the same rights as human sometimes and this is one fine example!