Original Article: https://blog.theanimalrescuesite.greatergood.com/valentines-day-flight-to-freedom/
This Valentine’s Day, love is (literally) in the air.
On February 14, 2022, we’ll be celebrating Valentines’ Day by flying 50 shelter puppies and dogs to loving homes on our “Love at First Flight” Flight to Freedom.
Every shelter pet on our Valentine’s Day flight was rescued from Louisiana, where shelter overcrowding leaves shelter pets at risk of euthanasia.
But even if they escape this grim fate, Lousiana shelter pets–-who also risk hurricanes, heartworm disease, and low rates of adoption–just don’t have many good options.
On February 14, The Animal Rescue Site and Greater Good Charities will be teaming up to show these unwanted shelter pets what it’s like to feel love for Valentine’s Day.
Our Valentine’s Day “Love at First Flight” Flight to Freedom will give 50 shelter puppies and dogs the opportunity to start over in Idaho, where demand for adoption is soaring. After the plane lands in Boise, these rescued fliers will be distributed to local shelters–and adopted in days!
This flight will help puppies like Ettie, Freye, Thaddeus, Seamus, and Liam, a scruffy litter of 5 born to an 11-month-old Lousiana dog who is basically a puppy herself.
After the puppies were born, the dogs’ owner rushed the young family down to their local shelter, where she spayed the mama dog (who she will be keeping) and enlisted a promise from shelter workers.
“The owner loves her dog and wants the puppies to go to a place where they will have a better life,” shelter workers told Greater Good Charities (which also paid for the young mother dog’s spay surgery).
Meanwhile, all 5 puppies were promptly booked on our “Love at First Flight” Flight to Freedom, their best chance for a brighter future.
Our Valentine’s Day “Love at First Flight” Flight to Freedom also helps dogs like Spud, a rescue found in rural Louisiana with a gunshot wound in his back.
Fortunately, Spud doesn’t seem to know he was shot, according to shelter workers, who say the Louisiana dog still acts like a perfectly healthy dog.
But even so, Spud–whose wounds fully healed after surgery–-deserves to live in a safe, loving home where he’ll never be hurt again. Our Valentine’s Day “Love at First Flight” Flight to Freedom will put Spud one step closer to his forever family.
But we can’t fly Ettie, Freye, Thaddeus, Seamus, Liam, Spud, and other these other shelter pets to safety without your help! Our Valentine’s Day “Love at First Flight” Flight to Freedom is funded by reader donations, so we’ll need your help getting this flight in the air. Just $5 helps us fund 125 air miles for one shelter pet passenger, while larger donations help us fly even more animals to safety and adoption.
Can you help us show shelter pets what it’s like to feel love for Valentine’s Day?
Source: The Animal Rescue Site Blog
