The Ruby Tuesday GiveBack program is in effect and it’s a simple and easy way to help us out. Visit one of the participating locations in the flyers below (on the correct date), bring in the flyer, and Ruby Tuesdays will donate 100% of the GiveBack amount to Pilots N Paws! Please check out [...]

The four cats came from Cairo, Egypt to Los Angeles, CA. Todd Underwood picked them up at Hawthorne airport in LA and flew them to Arizona on January 19, 2012. This is Todd’s second time helping with cats coming from Cairo and going to AJ’s Best Friends Persian and Himalayan Rescue in Gilbert, AZ. The cats [...]

A  nice big welcome to Brian Bond.  Brian, his wife Victoria, and a work friend Jack, completed their first Pilots N Paws mission recently. They picked up Beatle in Scottsdale, AZ, and flew him to Bakersfield, CA.  His new parents were waiting for their new family member and drove Beatle home to Madera, CA. Brian [...]

Ace was living in Tennessee with a family who had rescued him from a bad situation. They tried to find him a permanent home in their area but weren’t able to do so. Ace is deaf, and the family needed to find him a home with someone who was willing to take on a deaf [...]

Mark Taylor mtaylor@gardnernews.com Two of Josh Jakobe’s passions are flying his airplane and helping animals. Jakobe, who is originally from Gardner but now lives in Wellsville, gets to combine those passions through his involvement in Pilots N Paws, a non-profit organization that transports pets from kill shelters to adoptive families hundreds of miles away. Jakobe, [...]

Special THANKS and SALUTE to wonderful Pilot N Paws members, Dick and Vicki Sipp, out of St Simons Island, Georgia who transported 11 sweet pups today from Bainbridge, Georgia to the Lakeland SPCA, Florida (thanks Patt) and also to C.C.F.A. (thanks Tara.) HUGS to Beth who transported the pups to the airport! You are ALL [...]

The flexibility of pilots and volunteers was revealed on this flight.  Jeff Parrott and Jim Carney left a day early to fly a rescue flight from Cookeville, TN to Sarasota, FL because the forecast for the next day was not good.  Everyone still made the trip happen even with the jumbled time frame. Their passengers [...]

  Our 12th Pilots N Paws Rescue, December 28, 2011, started at Huntsville Airport in Alabama. The trip continued to Bainbridge, GA, Tuscaloosa, AL, and finally, Hohenwald TN. However, I was not able to partake in the trip. Our neighbor, Adam Wallace, accompanied Todd on the trip. Todd and Adam picked up three dogs from [...]

PILOTS N PAWS RESCUE/from Pilot Scott MessingerTHIS WAS FOR RUFF START RESCUE, PET RESQ INC. and  ELEVENTH HOUR  RESCUE IN NEW JERSEY.   DOGS ALL CAME FROM RURAL NORTH CAROLINA AND INCLUDED:…A CLUB FOOT BEAGLE WHO HAD WITNESSED HIS SON GET RUN OVER AND KILLED…. THIS DOG WAS FOUND LAYING ON TOP OF HIS SON’S BODY [...]

It is with great sadness that we share with you the loss of one of our Pilots N Paws pilot volunteers.  Doug passed away January 1st, unexpectedly, and will be missed by all who knew him and his gift of giving.  His close friend and fellow PNP pilot, Dennis Einstein states “he was  a great man”.  [...]

Today was the first time that Houston Collie Rescue has ever utilized Pilots N Paws. We wanted to make sure to send a big thank you to your organization. Pilot Craig P. from Oklahoma responded to our post to bring Colin to Sugar Land, Texas. Since we are a non-profit, this resource is extremely important [...]