'She dropped it on the bed for a second and the dog got to it': A family vacation is thrown into chaos after a dog chews a passport, but a last-minute flight to Buffalo for an emergency appointment leads to a tense but successful reunion in Jamaica

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Laurent Shinar • Writer and Editor
Aug 22, 2025 2:00 PM EDT

Going on vacation is a wonderful thing. You get to explore a new place in the world. You get to discover new things. And best of all you are far far away from your work life. But what happens if you get to packing for your vacation, only to find out that your passport has been irreversibly ripped to shreds by your pawdorable pupper? Do you bring the doggo with you to passport control to show them the criminal who destroyed your identification document?

This was the question that one woman unfortunately had to answer when she wanted to set off for a break in sunny Jamaica, only to find that her not-so-good boy Golden Retriever had chewed through her passport making it completely unrecognizable. But instead of dragging her doggo through passport control, she had a cunning plan involving a surpassingly speedy passport renewal. So the doggo might not have managed to stop his dog momma from flying off for a week, but we all got to learn how to handle one of the more dreadful situations that our doggos can land us in.
 

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    We were packing for our family trip to Jamaica and I hear my wife scream upstairs. She just tells me "I'm not going to Jamaica" and shows me her passport. Only the
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    main page shown is torn. Nothing else. (The image depicted is after she tried taping it back together) She dropped it on the bed for a second and the dog got to it. And she is
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    normally not destructive like that, but despite how F we were, we couldn't blame her.
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  • Oh man, this is no good. For most people, the worst thing that might happen with a passport at the last minute before travelling is that it has expired. But you certainly would not expect to find your passport shredded to within an inch of its life… 

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    After reality has sunk in, I hopped on a call with some passport department inquiring about an emergency passport. They apparently
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    only give them out if there is a death in the family etc. They searched for appointments nearby and the only one on the east coast was in Buffalo NY at 8am the following day. So we changed my
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    wife's flight, and sent her tour to buffalo, and got her a 10:45 am flight out from Buffalo to Orlando, then to Jamaica hoping that it would work. They
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    UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Type/Type/Tipo Com USA PASSPORT PASSEPORT PASAPORTE Surinam שה UNITED STATES OF AMERIC A SEE PAGE 27 Mecha States nent of State USA
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    don't guarantee that you will get it same day, but the reviews for the location were surprisingly positive so we were hopeful. She shows up an
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    hour early, is first in line and they tell her they can get it same day, but won't start printing passports till 10am. The manager came
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    out and told my wife she should probably change her flight because he can't guarantee that she will get it in time for the 10:45 flight.
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    She comes back around 10, sits right, and the woman at the front desk gives a friendly wink to my wife. At 10:15 the manager tells my wife's passport is printing.
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  • Holy what? How did she manage to get her passport reissued so quickly? Maybe because her doggo was the culprit, they felt bad and made sure that she had a passport ready to go in no time. It is probably the best excuse someone could have for presenting a shredded passport.

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    Around 10:20-10:25 they hand it to her and she hits the find driver button on the uber app. She gets picked up, and takes the 15 min ride to the airport.
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    The uber driver told her he's driven MANY people that flew from out of state to Buffalo for a same day passport and he believed she could make it. Well she did. Boarding got
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    delayed but she make it with like 10 minutes to spare and arrived in Jamaica only 3 hours after we did. Was beyond exhausting!
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    georgecm12 Top 1% Comme... Sounds exhausting, but delightful that both you and the passport office were able to make it work... and now you have a fun story to tell for a long time.
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    dsdvbguut... I love how every time a dog destroys something, it's always "the dog is normally not like this" Imao
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    tjlightbulb The amount of times I see posts of dogs eating passports you'd think passports are made of bacon. Is
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    everyone just leaving them in the dog bowl or something??
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    New_Cryp... Fun fact. When you go in to get it replaced, if you caused the damage they will charge you a fine. This is
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    because technically the passport is not your property, it's theirs. Mine went through the washing machine while in France...
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