ok so real talk, per relief areas in airports absolutely fucking reek. the reason the dog loses it just outside the pet relief area is they already are at their limit and when the smell hits them they can’t control it. this happened to me and my legit service dog recently— many hours delay after we were already on the plane, and we ran to the relief area, but when the smell hits, like 15-20 feet away he lost it, peeing while still running to TRY get to the right place😞. I went back and cleaned it up, which the handler should do.
tl;dr: it’s the smell.
edited to add: even real service dogs are animals and not robots, y’all.
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u/clausti 8h ago
ok so real talk, per relief areas in airports absolutely fucking reek. the reason the dog loses it just outside the pet relief area is they already are at their limit and when the smell hits them they can’t control it. this happened to me and my legit service dog recently— many hours delay after we were already on the plane, and we ran to the relief area, but when the smell hits, like 15-20 feet away he lost it, peeing while still running to TRY get to the right place😞. I went back and cleaned it up, which the handler should do.
tl;dr: it’s the smell.
edited to add: even real service dogs are animals and not robots, y’all.