Four Puppy Mill Cocker Spaniels in rescue (Tails of Hope Dog Rescue) flew from the Fayette County Airport, TN to Columbus, Ohio to meet their new rescue (Columbus Cocker Rescue). Mark Dickens, pilot of Memphis, TN signed up in December 2011 to fly for Pilots N Paws. He immediately volunteered to fly his first mission [...]

Candice Chandler, Global Animal article: When people think of adopting abandoned pets, they usually think of a nearby shelter or website that offers rescues within the area. Pilots N’ Paws, however, has taken a different approach: flight. Pilots N’ Paws recently dedicated their organization to completely relocating dogs, cats, and even reptiles who don’t have [...]

Terry Dickson at the The Florida Times-Union whips up the keyboard with a story featuring Pilots N Paws and Humane Animal Resource Team, or HART. Read the full story, 5 McIntosh County puppies airborne to new homes in New Jersey. McIntosh County had a puppy explosion recently. They received 31 puppies in one day. Adopters [...]

  My son Nick and I (along with his friend, Ryan) completed our 8th PnP flight today. We transported a female bull terrier from Brookshire, TX to a foster home in Cleburne, TX. “Bambi” is a 10 month old puppy that had been rescued by Texas Gulf Coast Bull Terrier Rescue and is such a friendly [...]

Professor, Students Give Lucky Dogs a Second Chance Text by Catherine Probst Ferraro and Paul King; video by Paul King It was a cloudy day in October at the Manassas, Va., airport when Michael Young and his passengers fueled up for their flight in his Columbia 400 airplane to transport some special cargo: a group [...]

I left Covington, TN at 7:30 AM CST for the short flight to Olive Branch, MS where Annie Stout and her husband were waiting with Black Lab Raven who was from the Collierville Animal Shelter. I departed Olive Branch for the Cookeville, TN Upper Cumberland Airport, where Donna York was waiting with yellow lab Cimba [...]

Special THANKS and HUGS to wonderful Pilots N Paws Pilot, Jeff Bennett who flew a sweet adult dog, Buster and some pups to 2 rescues near Brooksville, Florida (thanks Tara, thanks Carol). SMOOCHES to Beth who got the Bainbridge pups on board and to Becca for transporting Buster from Tallahassee, Florida. You are ALL soooo [...]

Special THANKS and SALUTE to a few wonderful Pilots N Paws members, Bill Whitmer, Brian Donoghue and Travis Sullins, who via a tag team flight flew our sweet Edgar from the Bainbridge, GA shelter as well as another pointer, Jagger, from Norcross, GA.  Both were destined for Patricia Nichols with Dog’s Hope English Pointer Rescue! [...]

Zoe’s Story  February 5th, 2012 wasn’t just Super Sunday for football fans, it was a start of a new life for Zoe the Border Collie. With the willingness of two PNP pilots, Zoe made an incredible 650 mile trip from Salt Lake City, Utah to Phoenix, AZ.  Her journey started in mid January when Grantsville [...]

Jeff Bennett reports:  Today we moved 8 adult dogs to safety. Mike and Janine Mylett of Sarasota flew to Marianna and picked up 6 dogs and brought them back to Sarasota where I was waiting. I loaded them up and flew them across the state to West Palm Beach where “Big Dog Ranch” and Nala’s [...]