Den airline ramp employee reported leads have to deal with in-transit animals; including a wild wolf...

Narrative:

On the swing shift the [line ramp] lead removed an animal to clean its kennel. The animal that was removed from the kennel was a wild wolf on the way to [a] zoo. This wolf was released with other kennels in the room along with other coworkers in the same room. This happened because here in denver we do not have a vendor to deal with animals. The leads are told it is their responsibility to clean all dirty cages; however the leads are given no formal training in handling animals at all let alone a wild animal. I feel that the current procedure used here in denver is unsafe and inadequate. As far as I know we are all trained per the ramp service manual which states that we should never remove an animal from its kennel. How the local management team got this procedure approved here is beyond me; it is a very dangerous situation and only a matter of time until there is a major tragedy.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: DEN airline ramp employee reported leads have to deal with in-transit animals; including a wild wolf that was the subject of this report. Reporter stated they had no training in how to deal with animals.

Narrative: On the swing shift the [line ramp] lead removed an animal to clean its kennel. The animal that was removed from the kennel was a wild wolf on the way to [a] zoo. This wolf was released with other kennels in the room along with other coworkers in the same room. This happened because here in Denver we do not have a vendor to deal with animals. The leads are told it is their responsibility to clean all dirty cages; however the leads are given no formal training in handling animals at all let alone a wild animal. I feel that the current procedure used here in Denver is unsafe and inadequate. As far as I know we are all trained per the ramp service manual which states that we should never remove an animal from its kennel. How the local management team got this procedure approved here is beyond me; it is a very dangerous situation and only a matter of time until there is a major tragedy.

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Attributes
ACN	1245570
Time
Date	201503
Place
Locale Reference	DEN.Airport
State Reference	CO
Person 1
Function	Other / Unknown
Events
Anomaly	Ground Event / Encounter Person / Animal / Bird

Den airline ramp employee reported leads have to deal with in-transit animals; including a wild wolf that was the subject of this report. Reporter stated they had no training in how to deal with animals.