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Originally Posted by AllDogBoots  I do not really think that an 11 pound dog is too large to fly in the cabin with you. Cooper (10lbs) and I took a 2 hour flight very successfully last year. I used a medium sized Sherpa bag which he fit nicely in. The bag in a little higher than the space in the seat in front of us, but it squishes down perfectly to fit. Cooper laid down the entire time and was able to turn in the carrier.
Mary-Alice, the owner of Dog Jaunt : Traveling with a small dog has a 13lb Cavalier KC Cocker Spaniel who travels everywhere with her. If it weren't for her, Cooper and I would never have been able to travel. I struggled with information.
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Yes! My 12 lb yorkie (very tall and lean), Rory, has flown with me 4 times this year alone. Lane is about 10 lbs and she has flown at least 5 times. Of course, they are too large to share a carrier, so my fiance carries one of the girls when we both travel. For our most recent trip, we finally bought the Sherpa carriers in a medium, and they are wonderful (and cheap to compared to what we have spent in the past)! We have Juicy, Coach and Pet Flys carriers and honestly for the "larger" dogs, I think the Sherpas are the way to go since they don't need to be rotated onto their side to slide under the seat.
When we first got the Sherpa carriers, I opened them up and laid them on the floor in our living room where I found them both curled up inside and sleeping several times.
When we traveled over Christmas, I actually saw a smaller French Bulldog in a large size Sherpa!