Man says Delta lost his dog, then offered him a $200 credit
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Sadly, Delta didn't lose Frank Romano's luggage, but rather his pitbull, Ty.
The Romano family was moving to Tampa from Los Angeles, and Frank decided to fly back with Ty. While waiting to board his flight, he says a Delta employee came up and said his dog had escaped his cage. Minutes later, they returned to say Ty had run away and was nowhere to be found.
Delta said Ty chewed through his kennel, but Romano looked at the photos and thinks otherwise. "To me, honestly, it looks like it was broken from the outside," he said. "Like, the metal door was off the hinges and everything. It doesn't look like a dog bit through that."
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Romano says that Delta offered him a $200 credit for his loss, but that does nothing to console him. "I just want my dog back safe and sound," he said. "He's my best friend. I just want to see him again."
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Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
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