Flying Abandoned Animals to Safer Havens
- 7 years ago
Flying Abandoned Animals to Safer Havens
We fly animals — 80 percent dogs and 20 percent cats — from about 20 source shelters, where they are in danger of being euthanized
because of lack of space, to some 62 receiving animal rescue organizations where these animals are more likely to be adopted.
As executive director and what I like to call administrator of logistics
and the occasional chaos, I work the phones and scour the internet looking to match shelters and rescue centers from our base at my home office in Jackson, Wyoming.
Peter often says he is a pilot who became a doctor, as opposed to a doctor who flies, since he started flying long before he became a physician.
We have just one plane, a Cessna Caravan 208B, owned
and flown by our lone pilot, Peter Rork, a retired orthopedic surgeon who founded our organization in 2012.
Kara Pollard, 33, is the executive director of Dog Is My CoPilot, an animal rescue operation in Jackson, Wyo.
My mom kept a note from my kindergarten teacher saying, “You’ve always been drawn to animals, so
I’m sure your passion will lead you to animals.” Being around animals makes me comfortable.
We fly animals — 80 percent dogs and 20 percent cats — from about 20 source shelters, where they are in danger of being euthanized
because of lack of space, to some 62 receiving animal rescue organizations where these animals are more likely to be adopted.
As executive director and what I like to call administrator of logistics
and the occasional chaos, I work the phones and scour the internet looking to match shelters and rescue centers from our base at my home office in Jackson, Wyoming.
Peter often says he is a pilot who became a doctor, as opposed to a doctor who flies, since he started flying long before he became a physician.
We have just one plane, a Cessna Caravan 208B, owned
and flown by our lone pilot, Peter Rork, a retired orthopedic surgeon who founded our organization in 2012.
Kara Pollard, 33, is the executive director of Dog Is My CoPilot, an animal rescue operation in Jackson, Wyo.
My mom kept a note from my kindergarten teacher saying, “You’ve always been drawn to animals, so
I’m sure your passion will lead you to animals.” Being around animals makes me comfortable.