Steven and Michele Burt(WORCESTER, Mass.) — Plane passengers rarely describe air travel as a breath of fresh air, but it was literally that for one family’s bulldog on a recent JetBlue flight.
The French bulldog, named Darcy, was on a flight from Florida to Massachusetts on Thursday when she started showing signs of distress, according to his owner Michele Burt. The 3-year-old bulldog’s tongue began to turn blue, and she was having difficulty breathing.
The crew came to the rescue with an oxygen mask for Darcy. The photos, which have since spread across social media, show the bulldog being treated for hypoxia. The photos are cute, but hypoxia — a lack of oxygen in the body — can be deadly.
“I placed the mask over her face, and within a few minutes, she became alert. And after a short time, she didn’t want the mask,” Michele said.
Michele thanked JetBlue for its attentiveness to Darcy and wanted to remind people that “good people are doing good things on a daily basis — even if it is in small ways or big ways.”
“We all want to make sure everyone has a safe and comfortable fight, including those with four legs,” JetBlue said in a statement to ABC News. “We’re thankful for our crew’s quick thinking and glad everyone involved was breathing easier when the plane landed in Worcester.”
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