Ty is a 6-year-old brindle and white Bull Terrier (Photo via Frank Romano) 
 
 A man is searching for his dog after he went missing Friday night, apparently from a cargo area at LAX. 
 
 Frank Romano said he was flying to Tampa out of LAX via Delta Airlines Friday night with his family and his 6-year-old bull terrier, Ty. Ty was in the cargo area in a carrier Romano said he had purchased from PetCo. Romano's family boarded the plane, but a Delta employee escorted him off the plane and told him that an hour earlier, Ty had chewed through the door of his pet kennel and escaped. Romano found this odd. 
 
 "I don't know how he could've bit through his kennel though when it had a metal door and was made of hard plastic," he said. 
 
 Romano says the story about what happened to his "best friend" gets even more bizarre from there. For one, he doesn't understand why the Delta employee didn't tell him about Ty's escape immediately. Also, he said he was told that the kennel Ty escaped from would appear in baggage claim, but it never did. 
 
 Romano said he searched around LAX, but Ty never turned up. The next day, his family flew to Tampa as planned. Romano has called Delta several times, but the situation has only become more confusing. 
 
 "They give us the run around," he told LAist. "Even gave us a number to the cargo place at Tampa airport saying he was there. We called and said they had no dogs." 
 
 If this story sounds odd, you might be disheartened to know that it's not uncommon. Delta apparently has a history of losing pets. The airline has allegedly lost so many dogs under their care that someone created a Change.org petition with over 2,000 signatures to demand they take responsibility. 
 
 In 2011, a New York man bought a puppy in Alabama, then arranged to have the puppy sent back to New York along with him. Delta temporarily misplaced the dog, then found it in Atlanta. In 2011, a German Shepherd headed from California to Germany to join its owner—a couple in the Army—got loose in Atlanta while under Delta's care. That dog was later hit by a car and died. Another unsatisfied Delta customer reported that he and his girlfriend had adopted a stray dog in Mexico in 2010, spent money nursing him to health and then made plans to bring the dog back to their home in Canada with them. Delta allegedly also gave them the run-around as to where the dog was with a similar story about an escape, but couldn't seem to produce the dog. 
 
 Delta also mixed up two children in 2010—a boy and a girl—sending one to Boston and the other to Cleveland when it was meant to be the other way around. 
 
 Romano is still looking for Ty, and still doesn't have any concrete answers from Delta. A representative at Delta told LAist that they would look into this and get back to us tomorrow. We're hoping we see Ty and Romano reunited soon. 
 
 Update, November 7, 12 p.m.: Delta has provided us with the following statement: 
 
 Delta continues to investigate what happened, but early indications show that procedures were followed, and the dog may have compromised the kennel on its own. Delta immediately worked with LAX airport teams and the customer to locate the dog but was unsuccessful. We remain in contact with this customer, and we are fully supporting the search for their pet. Delta understands that pets are important members of the family and regrets this occurred while this pet was entrusted to our care. ||||| The Winnipeg Airports Authority is looking over its wildlife policy after a rescue dog was shot and killed at the airport Monday when it got loose from its kennel and ran near an active runway. 
 
 "It was a tough day for everyone," said Tyler MacAfee, the authority's director of corporate communications, on Wednesday. 
 
 "It's certainly not the outcome anyone wants to see, and it's a really tough decision for someone to make to use force in that way on an animal … But at the same time it's that balance of aviation safety." 
 
 Around 4:30 p.m. Monday, the authority got a call that a dog ran off outside at the Winnipeg airport, MacAfee said. 
 
 The dog, named Greta, was en route to a Winnipeg foster home from a northern Manitoba community, flown by Perimeter Aviation and under the care of the Manitoba Mutts. The dog rescue has been transporting dogs to Winnipeg with Perimeter Aviation for about seven years, said Rebecca Norman, one of the rescue directors, but this was the first time one got loose on the tarmac. 
 
 Greta was roughly two years old and was known to be friendly with people and animals, Norman said, adding she had a history of chewing through kennels and it's possible that's what happened on the flight. 
 
 Carlos Castillo, vice-president of commercial services for Perimeter Aviation, said it appears the dog chewed through a plastic portion of the kennel during transportation and broke loose as staff opened the plane door. Workers tried to contain Greta but the dog broke free, Castillo said. 
 
 The airport's wildlife control staff tried to corral the animal into a safe, open area, as is usually done in these cases, MacAfee said, but it evaded attempts and ran across the airfield, near an active runway. 
 
 One flight, an inbound plane from Las Vegas, had to abort its landing to avoid the dog, MacAfee said. The wildlife officer managed to get the animal away from the runway but it turned around and returned to the area. 
 
 At that time of day, MacAfee said the airport is busy, with flights taking off and landing every couple of minutes. 
 
 "The wildlife control officer had to make that difficult decision that it had to use lethal force," he said. 
 
 Airports authority, airline did 'everything they could for her': dog rescue 
 
 Norman said the airline notified the rescue of Greta's death immediately and the airports authority phoned shortly after. 
 
 "Quite clearly, we didn't want her to be hit by a plane. That would have been more painful than the way she passed away," Norman said. 
 
 "And we also didn't want … the planes to crash or people to get hurt. So they did everything they could for her and for the planes to land." 
 
 MacAfee said policies about transporting animals via air are set by individual airlines, following overarching rules set by Transport Canada. That body has also been notified of the incident, he said. 
 
 Perimeter Aviation transports dogs multiple times a week without incident, Castillo said. All animals transported by that airline are required to travel in kennels that have been approved by trained staff. In Greta's case, the kennel she was initially brought to the airline in was rejected because it was "in rough shape," Castillo said. 
 
 The community member who brought her in was asked to leave and return with the dog in a different kennel, which was approved by staff and appeared "brand new," Castillo added. 
 
 The individual braced the plastic portion of the kennel with duct tape, he said. 
 
 Authority will work with rescue on policy 
 
 MacAfee said Greta's death is the first time in their records — which date back to 2007 — that lethal force has been used on a pet. 
 
 Pets move through the airport on a daily basis, he said. On occasions when they get loose, they typically don't get far — and when they do, the airport's wildlife control team is usually able to work with owners to safely contain animals in an area far from active runways. 
 
 After Greta's death, MacAfee said the airports authority has offered to sit down with Manitoba Mutts to discuss its policy for dealing with animals. Its current plan is largely focused on birds, he added, because a fence around the premises prevents other animals from getting into the airfield. Lethal force has been used on squirrels that get through, he said, and as a last resort for birds who can't be scared off by other means. 
 
 Castillo said the airline is also willing to work and meet with the authority and the rescue. 
 
 "We're going to try to sit down with this group and see if there's an opportunity where we can refine some of the things that we're doing and look at some different techniques and tactics that we can be doing to see if there's a better way in the future," MacAfee said. 
 
 Norman said that could include buying stronger kennels or, potentially, tranquilizer guns to contain animals. But she said all the parties involved did the best they could and no one person or group is to blame. 
 
 "We hope that the public isn't trying to point fingers, even though it's a heartbreaking situation." 
 
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– A man is trying to find his best friend after Delta Airlines lost track of the 6-year-old bull terrier Friday night. "I keep praying and wishing for him to come back," Frank Romano tells ABC News. Delta has told him they're looking for the dog, Ty, who seems to have gone missing at LAX when Romano and his family were headed to Tampa. After Romano boarded the plane, Delta staff told him Ty was missing, having bitten through the door of his kennel. Romano finds that confusing "when it had a metal door and was made of hard plastic," he tells the LAist. He searched the airport without finding the dog. The next day, he and his family headed to Tampa, where he is now. Meanwhile, he says he's received mixed reports from Delta, who at first told him they'd found the dog; then, "a few minutes later," said they hadn't. "They give us the run-around," he says. "Even gave us a number to the cargo place at Tampa airport saying he was there. We called and (they) said they had no dogs." Delta has lost enough dogs in the past to prompt a Change.org petition, LAist notes, pointing to three different incidents. "If I could I would go back to LA in a heartbeat," Romano says. "I bet I could find Ty faster than Delta can."