The death of a puppy that was placed in the overhead bin of a United Airlines flight has sparked such a wave of outrage that even Congress is getting involved in the matter.

In an incredibly heartbreaking incident, a 10-month-old French bulldog died after a flight attendant ordered its owner -- a mother traveling with her two young children on a flight from Houston to New York -- to put a dog carrying case, with the puppy inside, in the overhead bin.

“The dog, left without air in what is essentially a small, closed coffin, barks for help, gets none, and slowly suffocates to death,” Kitty Block, the acting president and CEO of the Humane Society of the United States, wrote of the incident in the society’s blog.



