(11-08-2017, 01:15 PM)TheO-LineMatters Wrote:

(11-08-2017, 11:51 AM)JagNGeorgia Wrote: Dude, I have 3 myself and love dogs. My 110 pound mastiff sleeps with my wife and me every night. 

You don't fly in a dog on tax-payer money, and you don't fly in staff members so you can get your dog there too.

I've always wanted a mastiff, but I get too attached to my pets and I can't own a dog with such a short life expectancy. They are beautiful dogs though. A friend of mine had one and she was a big baby. She thought she was a lap dog. I currently have two lab mixes.

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(11-08-2017, 01:05 PM)The Real Marty Wrote: Correct me if I'm wrong, but from what I've read, it didn't cost any money to fly the dog, because they simply added him to a planeload of people that were already going to that destination.

Does anyone remember the time Roosevelt was accused to sending a destroyer to pick up his dog Fala that had supposedly been left behind on an island?  That was a funny one.  This one sounds like that.

That's what I was thinking. How did this cost anything?

She's an Italian Mastiff, so she's more athletic than other mastiffs, lives longer on average, but she's not as big.

I'm not sure why the staff needed to be there on vacation with them. If it's common practice to fly in a literal plane-load of people for Presidential vacations then I suppose there isn't much to argue. But I'd guess that it isn't that common.

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