<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><a href="https://www.fark.com/goto/11458651/people.com/pets/rescue-pilot-flies-51-adoptable-cats-to-safety/%3Futm_source%3Dfark%26utm_medium%3Dw" target="_blank" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: black; text-decoration: none;">Rescue pilot flies 51 at-risk cats to New England shelters for a fresh start and forever homes. Welcome to Caturday</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">. </span><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><div dir="ltr">Courtesy of <i>People</i> at:</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><a href="https://people.com/pets/rescue-pilot-flies-51-adoptable-cats-to-safety/?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark">https://people.com/pets/rescue-pilot-flies-51-adoptable-cats-to-safety/?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark</a></div><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">————————————————-</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></span></div><div><div class="intro article-info" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.95); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.95); font-family: Lora, serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><div class="headline-wrapper" style="box-sizing: border-box; align-items: center; display: flex; justify-content: space-between;"><h1 class="headline heading-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 400; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 48px; line-height: 52px; font-family: Basel, serif; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; border-left-width: 0px;">Rescue Pilot Flies 51 At-Risk Cats to New England Shelters for Fresh Start and Forever Homes</h1><div id="karma-lazy-sponsorLogo" class="sponsor-logo" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-align: center;"></div></div></div><p class="dek margin-16-tb padded-mobile" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Limerick, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.5px; line-height: 28px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(40, 47, 47); font-stretch: normal; padding: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">Michael Schneider's recent rescue flight with Pilots to the Rescue is the nonprofit's largest transport since Schneider founded the organization in 2015</p></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></span></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 12pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 21pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">On May 20, Michael Schneider readied the<a href="https://www.pilotstotherescue.org/about/" target="_blank" title="(opens new window)"><span style="color: rgb(89, 89, 89); text-decoration: none;"> Pilots to the Rescue plane</span></a>for its biggest trip yet. Founded by Schneider in 2015, <a href="https://www.pilotstotherescue.org/team/" target="_blank" title="(opens new window)"><span style="color: rgb(89, 89, 89); text-decoration: none;">Pilots to the Rescue is a nonprofit</span></a> dedicated to helping at-risk animals by flying them to safety.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 12pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 21pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">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. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 12pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 21pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-color: white;">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.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-color: white;">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.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-color: white;">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.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 12pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 21pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">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. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 12pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 21pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">To learn more about Pilots to the Rescue, and contribute to their efforts, visit the <a href="https://www.pilotstotherescue.org/ways-to-donate/" target="_blank" title="(opens new window)"><span style="color: rgb(89, 89, 89); text-decoration: none;">nonprofit's website</span></a> and <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pilotstotherescue" target="_blank" title="(opens new window)"><span style="color: rgb(89, 89, 89); text-decoration: none;">Facebook page</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><br></div><div>—————————-</div><div><br></div><div>Photos . . .</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.tomandrodna.com/MoscowCares/Caturday/Caturday_052921_01.jpg">http://www.tomandrodna.com/MoscowCares/Caturday/Caturday_052921_01.jpg</a></div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.tomandrodna.com/MoscowCares/Caturday/Caturday_052921_02.jpg">http://www.tomandrodna.com/MoscowCares/Caturday/Caturday_052921_02.jpg</a></div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.tomandrodna.com/MoscowCares/Caturday/Caturday_052921_03.jpg">http://www.tomandrodna.com/MoscowCares/Caturday/Caturday_052921_03.jpg</a></div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.tomandrodna.com/MoscowCares/Caturday/Caturday_052921_04.jpg">http://www.tomandrodna.com/MoscowCares/Caturday/Caturday_052921_04.jpg</a></div><div><br></div><div><div dir="ltr"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">————————————————-</span></div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><div><b>“Caturday”</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> by Linus Petit</span></div><div><a href="http://www.tomandrodna.com/MoscowCares/Caturday/Caturday_by_Linus_Petit.mp3">http://www.tomandrodna.com/MoscowCares/Caturday/Caturday_by_Linus_Petit.mp3</a></div></div></div><br><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</span></div><div><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/">http://www.moscowcares.com/</a></div><div><br></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div><br></div><div>“A stranger is just a friend you haven’t met.”</div><div>- Roy E. 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