Ticket to ride: Animal rescue organizations partner with Wings of Rescue to fly dogs to new homes
Wings of Rescue, is one of the only all-volunteer organizations to fly this number of pets to safety. It will fly animals to their new homes in pressurized aircraft cabins, not as cargo.
A three-day event that begins Friday at Van Nuys Airport hopes to fly more than 400 animals that were living at shelters to new homes outside California. This is Wings of Rescue’s 3rd Annual Holiday Airlift, which saves hundreds of animals from shelters in Southern California to avoid euthanizing them, said Rene Ruston, a co-founder of the animal rescue and transportation organization START.
Volunteer pilots in private planes will fly the animals to rescue organizations and new homes in Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Montana. This is the largest one-day animal rescue on the West Coast.
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