Flying with a dog and cat in the cargo hold: our experience (and everything we wish we'd known beforehand)

Thu, 28 May 2026 08:00:00 +0200

We were scared. Really scared.

The first thing you read online when you search “pet in the plane’s cargo hold” is always the same: “animals die in the hold.” And that’s exactly what we thought too, before flying 9 hours from Osaka to Vancouver with our Shiba Inu Genepì and our cat Sakè.

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Flying with a dog and cat in the cargo hold: our experience (and everything we wish we'd known beforehand)