An Amazing Thing!

Many of you have heard me talk endless the last week or so about me waiting to volunteer for "Operatin Pet Airlift". This was a grassroots effort started by one woman and grew across the nation! Yesterday a privately funded Continenal Airliner pulled into LAX with 90 dogs and 13 cats that had been rescued from the Gulfcoast area! These dogs were being placed ONLY with animal rescue groups until their owners can be found. I volunteered to help with the dogs once they arrived. My job was a dog handler! I would get one of the dogs coming out of the crates and it was my responsibility until it had everything done and it was in the care of it's rescue group. Each dog had a quick check up with a vet, scanned for a microchip and one inserted if it wasn't there, a heartworm test (which 99% of the dogs were positive for!), Advantage for fleas and photos taken for petfinder.com to hopefully reunite these wonderful pets with their owners. Continental Airlines has graciously offered to fly any animal to be reunited back for free! So cool. I can't describe what it was like to help, so here are a few photos. This is my favorite photo:

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