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ASPCA Teams Up With Pilots N Paws for Pacific Coast Rescue Event

April 29, 2013 • Rescue

FIDO loves this amazing program that is giving more than 170 homeless dogs the ride of their lives!

NEW YORK—The ASPCA® (The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals®) today announced that it is teaming up with Pilots N Paws to transport more than 170 dogs from shelters in Southern California to shelters in Oregon and Washington in multiple operations scheduled to take place on Saturday, April 27, 2013 and Tuesday April 30, 2013.


On the morning of Saturday, April 27, the first set of approximately 73 animals will leave Los Angeles Animal Services’ West Valley Shelter and Best Friends Pet Adoption & Spay Neuter Center – where they’ve been housed and prepared for transport – and will be brought to the Long Beach airport. They’ll be loaded onto 22 planes flown by Pilots N Paws volunteer pilots as they begin the voyage north. Upon arrival in Fresno, Calif., the dogs will board a second set of 13 planes and Pilots N Paws volunteer pilots will fly them the rest of the way to northern California.


After landing at the airport in Redding, Calif., the dogs will be met by a ground transport funded by the ASPCA and driven by volunteers and staff from Kitsap Humane Society in Silverdale, Wash. After walks, dinner and fresh water, the dogs will then be driven overnight to Kitsap Humane Society and Seattle Humane Society (in Bellevue, Wash.), where they will arrive and settle in by Sunday morning. The dogs eventually will be put up for adoption in Washington.


In addition to this exciting flight event, a ground transport carrying an additional 100 dogs will leave Riverside (Calif.) County Department of Animal Services a few days later on Tuesday, April 30.  This transport, funded by the ASPCA and provided by California organization S.T.A.R.T. Rescue (Shelter Transport Animal Rescue Team), will deliver dogs to various organizations and rescue groups in Washington and Oregon (see below for a complete list of participating organizations).


“The ASPCA is excited to partner with Pilots N Paws and all these wonderful source and destination shelters and transport groups to save the lives of these dogs,” said Kristen Limbert, director of animal relocation for the ASPCA. “We’re proud to be able to safely bring them up to the Northwest, where they are more likely to find homes than in southern California. We would never be able to do this without the collaboration among these organizations. It’s amazing the difference we can make for animals when we all work together.”


“Pilots N Paws is honored to be working with the ASPCA, our partners Subaru and Petmate, and numerous rescue organizations to fly these abandoned animals to safe havens,” added Debi Boies, co-founder of Pilots N Paws.

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Pilots N Paws is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization who through the help of general aviation volunteer pilots transport rescue animals by air. The mission of Pilots N Paws is to provide a user-friendly website communication venue between those that rescue, shelter, and foster animals and pilots and plane owners willing to assist with the transportation of these animals. The goal of Pilots N Paws is to continue to promote awareness of animal overpopulation and to implement education programs to end this problem in our lifetime. Founded in February of 2008, Pilots N Paws continues to make a difference in the lives of innocent animals. Please visit Pilots N Paws at www.pilotsnpaws.org , on Facebook and Twitter.


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