Winnipeg-bound puppy gets left on flight, lands in Calgary

Levon the Bernese Mountain Dog is just a pup but he's already had some ruff encounters with airlines.

A family bought him from a breeder in Ontario and had him shipped to their Winnipeg home, but he didn't arrive.

Instead of being on the Prairies, Levon found himself in the shadows of the Rocky Mountains. He wasn't taken off the WestJet flight in Winnipeg, and instead landed in Calgary.

WestJet spokesman Brie Thorsteinson Ogle said there were three dogs on the plane, but only two were unloaded.

"There people that were looking for the delivery [of Levon] who alerted us to the fact that he had not made it off the aircraft," she said.

Fortunately, the Ontario breeder had a friend in Calgary who was able to look after Levon until he was put back on another Winnipeg-bound flight on Thursday morning.