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A dog named Havoc caused some Monday after escaping from his crate and tearing around the tarmac of Pearson International for an hour.

But the young Belgian Malinois, housed and trained at Skiplyn Kennels in Garson, really can’t be blamed for the chaos, said his new owner.

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“We had him in an airline-approved box,” said Deanna Kjorlien, who acquired Havoc for use as a pest-sniffing dog in Washington State. “It was brand-new and zip-tied more than was needed. We followed all the rules.”

Kjorlien said the crate somehow toppled off a conveyor belt while getting loaded onto the Air Canada plane, plummeting five feet and “cracking open like an egg.”

The dog, not yet two years old, took off out of fear across the runways, just as night was coming on and snow beginning to fall.

Kjorlien said she had stayed with Havoc for as long as she could before boarding and assumed everything was fine. But 10 minutes after settling into her seat, a security official approached her and said there was a problem.