KSCessnaDriver
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These three guys (and a whole bunch more in back) rode with me in pressurized comfort last summer from TYS to ALB one day. It was a lot of fun, by far these three guys were the most well behaved ones I flew.
Pilots N Paws
- Thread starter SlumTodd_Millionaire
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fholbert
Mod's - Please don't edit my posts!
Point out to your boss it's a big tax write off.
I really don't have a good plane for that but I do have a 1/2 acre fenced backyard. After participating in the sport of dogs for 20+ years we now have a couple of dogs from Golden Retriever Rescue.
Stone Cold
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See @ATN_Pilot, we all knew you had a heart somewhere. You finally showed it in the forums.
Great post and great cause!
Great post and great cause!
SlumTodd_Millionaire
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See @ATN_Pilot, we all knew you had a heart somewhere. You finally showed it in the forums.
My heart is reserved for dogs. All of you people can rot.
Stone Cold
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Spoken like a true Democrat. LolMy heart is reserved for dogs. All of you people can rot.
Maximilian_Jenius
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SlumTodd_Millionaire
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I. Will. Cut you!
Beefy McGee
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@ATN_Pilot Good stuff man!
I was able to do a few Pilots n Paws flights last fall as time building with an aircraft owner in that program. It was a great experience that I would like to do again one day. One flight was a very pregnant catahoula dog, another was 11 mixed lab pups that had survived a fire, and another was a greyhound with a bad leg heading for surgery and adoption. It felt good to help the critters out.
I was able to do a few Pilots n Paws flights last fall as time building with an aircraft owner in that program. It was a great experience that I would like to do again one day. One flight was a very pregnant catahoula dog, another was 11 mixed lab pups that had survived a fire, and another was a greyhound with a bad leg heading for surgery and adoption. It felt good to help the critters out.
fholbert
Mod's - Please don't edit my posts!
My heart is reserved for dogs. All of you people can rot.
I only wish I was half the person my dogs think I am.
Pilot Fighter
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Sad to say that it was raining dogs this week at LEX, Pilots N Paws lost one out the door after takeoff this week.
knot4u
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I could've lived the rest of my life without that piece of info. Here I was thinking nice things about Todd, and you just ruined this entire thread. You are a bummer.
bike21
9-5 Ruins Lives
@ATN_Pilot major kudos to you and everyone else able to do such awesome things for these pups & kitties. Hope to do the same down the road when I can. Preferably with my PC-12 after I win the lottery
Tiptank
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Hey, dogs get loose from their walkers at my shelter sometimes, and one even got hit by a car on our busy road. RIP. It happens.
This whole thread, and all of it's replies, reaffirms why I'm volunteering at my state's SPCA shelter. When I first started I was worried that it would be sad and depressing. It turns out that the whole experience is the exact opposite. It's very uplifting. The animals are all in a MUCH better situation that their previous existences, and surrounded by the best-of-the-best in terms of medicine, behavioral guidance, trust and relationship learning, health and activity, nutrition, yada-yada, and most of all love and caring from humans!
However, the bottom line is that I've learned more about HUMANS through my time as a volunteer than I have about the animals themselves. The people at the shelter are obviously a special breed (if you'll pardon the pun) and the level of compassion and empathy towards the animals is nothing short of astounding. I think A Life Aloft started a thread somewhere about the dog-human relationship from a scientific standpoint. This thread just reinforces that observation that the human-animal relationship is amazing. Who was the comic that said something along the lines of "if aliens came to Earth they would assume dogs are the dominant species, since humans spent so much time catering to them"?
I'm actually going to have to propose the whole Pilots n Paws thing to our higher-ups at the shelter since we currently send a Sprinter van thousands of miles round trip picking up critters from other parts of the country.
Great post OP!
This whole thread, and all of it's replies, reaffirms why I'm volunteering at my state's SPCA shelter. When I first started I was worried that it would be sad and depressing. It turns out that the whole experience is the exact opposite. It's very uplifting. The animals are all in a MUCH better situation that their previous existences, and surrounded by the best-of-the-best in terms of medicine, behavioral guidance, trust and relationship learning, health and activity, nutrition, yada-yada, and most of all love and caring from humans!
However, the bottom line is that I've learned more about HUMANS through my time as a volunteer than I have about the animals themselves. The people at the shelter are obviously a special breed (if you'll pardon the pun) and the level of compassion and empathy towards the animals is nothing short of astounding. I think A Life Aloft started a thread somewhere about the dog-human relationship from a scientific standpoint. This thread just reinforces that observation that the human-animal relationship is amazing. Who was the comic that said something along the lines of "if aliens came to Earth they would assume dogs are the dominant species, since humans spent so much time catering to them"?
I'm actually going to have to propose the whole Pilots n Paws thing to our higher-ups at the shelter since we currently send a Sprinter van thousands of miles round trip picking up critters from other parts of the country.
Great post OP!
Pilot Fighter
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I'm sorry. This story saddened me more than any "wheel well stowaway dies" story. Hats off to @ATN_Pilot and the work of Pilot N Paws.
