WICHITA, KS (KSNW/CNN) – Irgo the German shepherd is really racking up the frequent flier miles this week.
The 10-year-old pup was supposed to have flown with his family on a United Airlines flight from Oregon to Kansas, but got mixed up with another dog and headed to Japan instead.
"Never, never ever would I ever imagined that, no," Irgo’s owner Kara Swindle said. "It feels actually amazing to finally have him back."
The 11,000-mile detour took him from Portland, OR, to Narita, Japan, and then to Wichita, KS.
Irgo arrived on Thursday on a United Airlines corporate jet.
"He ran right up to us and just was crying and so happy," Swindle said. "When he's super excited, he cries."
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United apologized after the mix-up and said they were investigating.
It was the second dog-related incident of the week for the airline. On Monday, a flight attendant made a passenger store her dog in an overhead bin on a flight from Houston.
By the time they landed in New York, the dog was dead.
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