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Volunteers Go Viral for Sharing What it's Like to Be on a "Puppy Rescue Flight"

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Dog rescuing is not an easy job. It may start simply with a kind heart, but it takes tons of volunteer workers. Not just people who can foster dogs, help walk them, etc. But also volunteer veterinarians, groomers, and even pilots. That's right, any rescued dogs need to a hitch a flight somewhere new. 

 

In the U.S., it's no news to dog rescuers that the Souther states seems to be the mecca of abandoned dogs. For whatever reason, not enough dogs are getting spayed or neutered there, many people seem to just dump them when they don't want them, or just give them up because they just can't handle having a dog. Because of this, shelters there are packed to the brim with dogs, many of them kill shelters. So much so that they are running out of room to house all these abandoned babies. Puppy Rescue Flights helps by recruiting volunteer pilots and their planes and having them fly out to one of those states and flying the puppies back to a state that has room for the babies

 

 

One pilot in Orlando, Fl. decided he wanted to help, so once a week he volunteers his skills and plane to fly to another state where a kill shelter is at max capacity and then flies a plane load of puppies back with him. Florida might be the most southern state, but Orlando does not have the same sort of issue with abandoned dogs as places like Texas, Georgia, Idaho, New Mexico, and others. 

 

Travel blogger/ TikToker Lexi aka @travelwlexi recently made her way to Florida and spent a day volunteering her time helping a volunteer pilot on a Puppy Rescue Flight. They flew from Florida to Alabama where they picked up TK puppies and brought them back to Florida where arranged fosters were waiting for the four-legged babies. On this trip they had around 40 puppies with them. They TikTok video of the excursion is going more and more viral everyday. Viewers are commenting asking how they can volunteer for this? In the videos the girl and a few of her friends are riding in an airplane with a ton of cute sleepy puppies just piled on top of them. 

 

“Save some puppies!”

 

If anything is a first class flight, it's this. I'd definitely pay extra to get the section of the flight filled with puppies. 

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