Pilots N Paws Program Matches Pilots With Animal Rescuers
Pilots N Paws is a non-profit organization that pairs those who rescue shelter or foster animals with pilot plane owners willing to assist with the transportation of animals. They help arrange or schedule rescue flights, overnight foster care or shelter care, and all other related activities.
According to Gimundo, volunteer pilots such as John Quimby, an IBM executive from West Chester, Ohio, has been using his pilot’s license for a good cause: airlifting animals in need of good homes. He’s one of the 2,000 recreational pilots registered with Pilots N Paws, which was launched in 2007 by animal rescuer Debi Boies and her friend Jon Wehrenberg, a recreational pilot.
This air-born volunteer organization was developed after Boies told her friend Wehrenberg that she wanted to adopt a Doberman who had been used in a dog-fighting ring, but was living several states away. Wehrenberg offered to fly her to Florida to collect the dog and bring him home.
(Source: freekibble.com)
