Last month, airport staff lost passenger’s dog at Atlanta airport. And on Saturday, September 9, after almost a month of anxiety, Paula Rodriguez, the owner of the missing dog, can finally rest after her dog was found safe and sound at the airport.
On September 9, the official X account (formerly Twitter) of the Atlanta airport announced that after nearly a month of Maia’s disappearance, the dog had been found.
Atlanta Airport wrote: “Maia, the dog who escaped onto the airfield of the world’s busiest airport, was found on September 9. The ATL operations team found her hiding near the North Cargo facility .”
“Tired but apparently in good health, she was taken to a veterinarian and is expected to return home soon,” Atlanta Airport wrote.
Furthermore, in an X broadcast by CBS News Correspondent David Begnaud revealed that Maia had been found by Robin Allgood, an animal welfare volunteer who had posted Maia flyers around the airport.
Allgood told Begnaud that she went to the airport on Saturday, September 9, after receiving a call from someone who told her they had seen the dog.
Allgood said he found Maia under a rack used to move cargo containers around the airport. She said a wildlife biologist tried twice to catch the dog with a net, but was unsuccessful.
After these unsuccessful attempts, people began to think about how to get the dog out from under the support.
Allgood recalled, “And I thought, ‘You know what? You won’t get it, I am. So I just started getting on my back under the rack and no one even knew I was under there and I just reached out and grabbed her and then someone said “Oh my God, she l ‘had’. .’”
Allgood said Maia was in great shape and her paw pads were uninjured, indicating the dog was hiding the entire time.
The animal welfare volunteer also said she called Maia’s owner, Rodriguez, and reassured her that Maia was in “incredible shape”.
Maia, the dog, got lost at the Atlanta airport on Friday, August 18, when she escaped from her kennel while being transported to the plane her owner was on.