Pittsburgh, PA – The Pennsylvania woman who abandoned her dog at the Pittsburgh International Airport in August 2023 has been sentenced after pleading guilty and agreeing to the terms of a plea deal. The 46-year-old nurse, Allison Lyn Gaiser, abandoned her French bulldog in the airport’s short term parking lot after an airline told her that dog did not have the necessary carrier needed for him to join her on the flight to Mexico.
Rather than rescheduling her trip, Gaiser abandoned her dog in a stroller. She was later arrested when she returned to the airport a week later; the dog’s microchip aided the authorities in identifying her.
Gaiser claimed that she told her mom to come to the airport to get the dog and take him to the pound, stating that she would reclaim her pet from the facility when she returned from vacation. Text messages from Gaiser’s mother revealed that she did not approve of her daughter’s intention to abandon the dog, telling Gaiser that she was “not above the law.”
After pleading guilty and accepting a plea deal, Gaiser’s charges of neglect and animal cruelty were dropped. She was fined $150 and ordered to pay about $350 in court costs.
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Anyone interested in contacting the Pennsylvania Board of Nursing should do so. File a complaint against her. They need to be aware of this person’s action. Her RN # is 531659
https://www.pals.pa.gov/#!/page/default. (easy to do online)
Or call:
833-367-2762
Let them know what a piece of trash she is!!!
This woman was also charged in 2023 for neglect!!! Here’s the article:
https://www.pennlive.com/news/2025/06/nurse-pleads-guilty-to-abandoning-dog-at-pa-airport-before-jetting-to-mexico.html
And to think she’s a nurse!! I can imagine the care she gives to her patients!! That poor dog wasn’t returned to her was it?!
All this crap woman gets is a $500 fine???!!! She probably PURCHASED (not adopted) that dog for way more than that!!! SHE NEEDS TO BE BANNED FROM ANIMALS.
That’s it?!?! How about not allowing her to ever have a pet again! Make the penalty fit the crime.
I hope the dog was not given back to her and someone more compassionate has the dog now. What is wrong with people? Animals are not inanimate objects to be abandoned like trash. This stupid woman needs more severe punishment!
What a slap on the wrist. The courts should have also said she can never own a pet again. Sad we live in a country where criminals get off Scott free.
Plea deal— bloody ‘plea deal!!! What prat invented this bloody nonsense ? Just get the bugger sentenced and be done with it. Forget the very annoying plea deals and bonds. Give this twat what she deserves . Anyone who can just abandon their dog needs teaching the error of her ways. ALTHOUGH -|——- I expect that many have read about the ‘bastard’ woman who because she could not take her little dog on the plane with her for some reason, what did she do? The bastard went to the toilets, shoved the little dogs head down into the U- bend and drowned it! This is a bastard of the first degree and needs serious ‘street justice’. I mean, you would have to be unhinged to even contemplate doing this just so she could take her flight! How I would love to spend some therapeutic time with her. Plus of course my trusted ‘coke-hammer!
J.W.
please give contact information for the incompetent MALFEASANT DA who bungled this. No plea deals for crime against animals. charges should not be dropped. she should be in prison and lose her nursing license
Hang that evil ugly devil! That disgusting woman must pay!!
sick! SICK! SICK! this monster should be bound and gaged and thrown into the sea…cruel! abhorrent and disgusting!!!
Yes I also want to know what happened to this unloved dog please!!!! She is a hooligan killler with innocent blood on her hands. She also needs to leave nursing to those who save lives not kill lives!!! This is a monumental tragedy!!! What happened to the dog??? Is he alive???
I never thought a situation wouId arise where the first thing I’d think when seeing this wouId be: “At Ideas she didn’t drown him in the airport restroom..”
This section needs an editing and/or deleting feature. I wrote “Ieast” and the computer decided to change it to “Ideas.” Ruined the message.
Scary to think that this selfish, uncaring woman hold the life of patients in her hands. If I were her employer I would certainly rethink her employment. The nurse licensing board in her state also needs to think about if this is the kind of person they want to represent nurses in that state…I think not.
Where is this dog now? Please don’t tell me our system failed again and allowed this dog to go back to this HORRIBLE CARELESS woman. And this woman is a nurse who is supposed to actually care???!!!
what happened to the dog?
If the Government would do their Job and undertake Laws to protect Domestic Animals with sufficient penalty’s and Jail time much of thisd would stop. Also registyer all Pets and document them when purchasing the animals of face Fines.
A true selfish piece of garbage. I hope that innocent pup now has a better life. Animals are not disposable, but that minor slap on the wrist certainly doesn’t send much of a message or will it do much to change her heartlessness.