[Vision2020] Caturday (May 29, 2021)

[Tom Hansen]


Rescue pilot flies 51 at-risk cats to New England shelters for a fresh start and forever homes. Welcome to Caturday. 

Courtesy of People at:

https://people.com/pets/rescue-pilot-flies-51-adoptable-cats-to-safety/?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark

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Rescue Pilot Flies 51 At-Risk Cats to New England Shelters for Fresh Start and Forever Homes
Michael Schneider's recent rescue flight with Pilots to the Rescue is the nonprofit's largest transport since Schneider founded the organization in 2015

On May 20, Michael Schneider readied the Pilots to the Rescue planefor its biggest trip yet. Founded by Schneider in 2015, Pilots to the Rescue is a nonprofit dedicated to helping at-risk animals by flying them to safety.

A self-described "serial entrepreneur," Schneider started the organization to combine his passion for aviation and animal rescue and pilots many of the nonprofit's rescue flights himself. 

A majority of Pilots to the Rescue's missions are transport flights operated by volunteer pilots. On these trips, shelter animals set to be euthanized due to overcrowding are instead given a Pilots to the Rescue flight ticket. From there, they are safely flown to shelters with the room and resources to care for the adoptable pets until the animals can find forever homes.

Volunteers from the rescue, which works to find homes for North and South Carolina's unwanted kittens and cats, met Schneider on the tarmac to tenderly hand off the 51 animals, many of which they had a hand in saving. Most of the felines endured rough starts before Carolina Cat Rescue found them, and Pilots to the Rescue stepped in, like Black Nose — a pregnant black-and-white cat that had to get a leg amputated after she was found injured in a field.
 
Luckily, once Schneider carefully stowed all 51 cats on the plane in North Carolina and took off for Connecticut, the cats' difficult pasts were behind them, and now only fresh starts await.
 
After landing in Connecticut, the felines met up with volunteers from several New England shelters with space to comfortably house the 51 cats. All of the pets will stay at their new shelters until they find the ideal forever home.
 
For Schneider, that's what Pilots to the Rescue is all about, providing animals with more opportunities to find forever homes and offering the people who save pets the resources to make these opportunities possible. 

To learn more about Pilots to the Rescue, and contribute to their efforts, visit the nonprofit's website and Facebook page.


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“Caturday” by Linus Petit
http://www.tomandrodna.com/MoscowCares/Caturday/Caturday_by_Linus_Petit.mp3

Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .

"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)
http://www.moscowcares.com/

Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho

“A stranger is just a friend you haven’t met.”
- Roy E. Stolworthy
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