Pet Rescue Pilots (PRP) planned a flight with only senior dogs (dog’s age 7 or older) on the passenger list to commemorate reaching 125 flights and assisting 2,500 shelter pets to find forever homes. PRP provides cost-free plane trips for pets from overcrowded shelters to rescues with rooms to adopt out animals.
In accordance with a press release, PRP transported 23 senior dogs from rural California shelters with limited room to Oregon, where rescue groups met the dogs and assisted with their transition into foster homes or into their adoptive family.
PRP and The Grey Muzzle Foundation hope that their effort to save lives would encourage animal lovers to take in an elderly pet.
Unfortunately, there is only a 25% chance that older dogs at shelters will be adopted. By providing funds to rescue organizations that work to make sure “every senior dog survives and no old dog dies alone and terrified,” The Grey Muzzle Organization hopes to raise this number.
When the 23 dogs arrived in Oregon, they were met at the airport by a foster family that had been arranged by PRP’s rescue network. But there are still a lot of older animals out there looking for love. Giving elderly dogs and cats a chance is something Elizabeth Thompson from the Oregon Coast Humane Society advises pet owners to do, especially because having an older animal has its advantages.
