Therapy dogs are ‘better than a bloody Mary’, says nervous air passenger


By AGENCY
The Shoup family stopping on the way to their flight to pat Yakeley, a dog from Paw Force One, a group of therapy dogs at the airport, in John Glenn Columbus International Airport in Columbus, Ohio, the United States, recently. — TNS

Jabbar Fant isn’t a big fan of flying.

“Actually, I hate it,” the 48-year-old computer analyst said on Nov 4 morning, shortly before boarding a flight for Houston, Texas, the United States, to visit his niece.

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