It was the flight of a lifetime for 110 dogs; in fact, it saved their lives. A few weeks ago, animal rescue organizations came together to remove over 100 dogs from kill shelters in Oklahoma, flying them to Oregon to be placed in new homes.
The Oregon Humane Society (OHS) spoke with Lady Freethinker and discussed taking in 70 of the dogs. OHS is the largest humane society in the Northwest, offering an onsite medical center, teaching hospital, and best of all, a place for animals to remain until they are adopted – no death row.
With the help of Fetch Fido a Flight, an organization that facilitates the movement of animals in need around the country, the dogs arrived and were spayed and neutered to prepare for adoption. In less than a week, 62 had already found new homes. OHS reports that with a little bit of media coverage and a “wonderful community of adopters in Oregon,” they were able to easily and swiftly find homes for the Oklahoma dogs. In 2017 alone, OHS found homes for over 11,000 animals in need.
Though some shelters in Oklahoma have excellent facilities and adoption rates, many are overcrowded and resort to euthanasia. There is a long history of an overabundance of strays and not enough shelters throughout the state.
Fetch Fido a Flight is part of a growing trend of transporting animals from overcrowded kill shelters to better facilities. Dogs are driven from Texas to Oregon, flown from Mexico to Washington, and even come from as far as South Korea. The OHS calls their program for transporting and accepting animals destined to be euthanized Second Chance. Last year, they were able to bring 7,140 animals to their facility in Oregon.
Here’s something to consider as an animal lover: even if you aren’t in the position to adopt and care for a dog or cat, you can volunteer to help transport them to a new home.
Glad to know the shelters are totally empty of any local animals all in Oregon who knew
GOD BLESS THE MAN
It is truly amazing the difference this program is making.
There are two other hideous nazi animal kill camps – in Laredo TX and San Bernardino CA – latter called Devore and which taunts the activists trying to convince them to grow a little compassion. There are photos of lined up bodies of poor beautiful dogs of all sizes. One mother dog and all her puppies who were healthy and could have been rescued.
Honestly, the sadism and maniacal behaviour is enough to make a sane person go right off the rails. I think I have an ulcer from doing just the little petition signing I’ve been doing over the past few months, the situations are so tragic and human misdemeanour is so angering. Hon on earth does one learn some sort of self preservation to be able to carry on?
God bless you, save ours dog friends!
Thank you for your noble, just, rational and compassionate work — the world needs MORE like you — in this way, we’ll all be saved.
Thank you for the people doing such a great job with dogs but I agree with those comments about cats. I love cats and have 6 I rescued from a kill shelter but they always seems to take second place to dogs. Is it because it seems to be mostly women who love them??
Any shelter should be just that, a shelter a roof abover their heads and food in their stomachs until a good forever home can be found. This is America’s shame that these poor animals are not getting these chances but being killed instead
I absolutely agree.Cats are even more intelligent than dogs,this is why they are more independent and some people only care about another creature if it admires them.This is selfishness.We must fight against all forms of animal abuse.Instead of kill “shelters”, I suggest an idea
nosufferinganimal.simplesite.com
Thank you OHS, and the people who adopted all those wonderful dogs. Love you dogs.
Thank you OHS and Second Chance.
sam – I am so glad to see someone else bring this up – I’m starting to sound like a broken record. We import dogs from meat farms, and I’m all for that, but we ALL know that cats suffer as much as dogs, but they seem to be ignored. If a person is an animal lover – you fight for ALL animals, not just the ones YOU feel worthy of your time and effort.
What about the cats in danger in the Philippians : https://coconuts.co/manila/news/shangri-la-hotel-hires-pest-control-get-rid-stray-cats-nearby-park-animal-rights-advocates-fight-find/
But that’s OK – it’s “only cats”. NOT!
Please never stop being you. Cats need all the friends they can get.
What a great story!! Thank you for this well written piece. Please do a follow up story on more rescue transports…
could somebody please explain to me what is wrong with saving cats?
Its just so heartwarming to know there are these human angels out there doing this work. Such a change from the usual news!
Wonderful! This is wonderful! Thank you OHS Second Chance!
This made me so happy to know all of the sweet helpless animals were saved. Thank you.
I think that is very sweet and beautiful. No dog or cat deserves to be killed. They need to be placed in very loving homes. Those people need to be in jail for what they do. It’s not right to just kill for the sake of it