Maia the dog was found exhausted but in good health on Saturday after three weeks of evading capture at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport — the busiest in the world. She had escaped from her crate while it was being loaded onto a flight from Atlanta to the Dominican Republic.
Paula Rodriguez was traveling from her home in the Dominican Republic to San Francisco for a vacation on Aug. 18 when things took a turn for the worse. Her visa was canceled, CNN reported, and she had to spend the night in a detention center before a return flight home the following day.
But when Rodriguez went to board her flight home, Maia was nowhere to be found, and border enforcement officers demanded she get on her flight without her dog. Two days later, Delta Air Lines told Rodriguez the dog was on her way to the plane when staff opened her crate and she escaped, CNN reported.
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