I was never an entrepreneur but that didn’t stop me from dreaming big.

I was at a company sales conference back in the early 2000s. This was when the company had money to burn and some key decision maker thought it would be productive to bring 400 people to The Atlantis Resort in the Bahamas for what was essentially a glorified pep rally that took place over 3 days.

It was also at this event where the participants, seated at tables in a large ballroom (with those gold faux bamboo backed chairs that are a staple of hotel banquet rooms), were encouraged to stand up and chant “Greed is good.” after being shown a clip from the movie, Wall Street. Luckily I sat in the back and could discretely control my laughter as I furiously texted my friend back in New York from my Palm Treo. The CEO was seated up on the stage and his image was projected on screens so that everyone could see. But all I saw was a very clear outline of his junk because of the way he was sitting in the chair. I looked around to see if anyone else noticed but they all seemed intently focused on what he was saying. I wondered to myself what is wrong with these people. Do they not have eyes? Or am I some kind of sick pervert?

Anyway it was at one of the dinners during this event where I mingled with people from other business units and ended up speaking with a guy who knew a lot about aviation. I told him about my idea for an airline.

I’ve long had a fantasy about an airline just for pets. People could fly on them too but the idea was to let people and animals fly in the same cabin. No more cargo holds for Fluffy and Fido. They could sit with their people. I had the routes all planned out. I figured New York, Miami, and Los Angeles would be the destinations where there would actually be a viable interest.

The guy tells me about this giant used airplane lot in the Mojave Desert. I pictured old planes sitting in the desert with those colored plastic triangle pennants – the kind used car lots have – flapping against a blue sky. And I start to think this could actually work! Of course I would need investors to buy two or three used jets and have them refurbished to my design – interior seating configurations to accommodate large dogs and their humans, regular seats for smaller dogs, cats, ferrets, birds and reptiles. Leopard print upholstery. Fuel and landing rights requirements. This would be amazing. I would be like Richard Branson for animal transport.

I would call this airline Fur Class.

I held onto the URL for several years but the interest waned and needless to say Fur Class never took off.