Pullock, IMHO you are guilty of using a serious lack of common sense. Dogs, be they well trained or not, do occasionally need to pee. Their pee is corrosive, containing a degree of potassium, which has similar characteristics to salt.
Would you like to know that your $100 million dollar aeroplane is rusting due to dog piss?
Further, you addressed human bodily fluids. Vomitus is generally not corrosive. Babies wear nappies. Other people are strongly discouraged from pissing all over the cabin. They go to the lavatories instead, which have reinforced floors.
Mate, finally, because you and Manwell just can't seem to see it (haven't heard from you BTW Manwell) this Captain earns perhaps $230K per annum. Lets just say he is 50 years old. Thats 10 years remaining in his career. He disobeys a rule that he doesn't like, or understand. He risks throwing away $2.3 million before he would be due to retire. Thats without mentioning super etc.
Is this sorta getting through to you? Why would you just throw all that away? Is not a$$ covering, either. This is a perfectly valid regulation, whether you disagree with it or not.
And just an afterthought. How is it that you have never seen one of these absorbent mats, yet you speak as though you have seen plenty of guide dogs in aeroplanes? Hmmmm...
