Flying Abandoned Animals to Safer Havens<br />We fly animals — 80 percent dogs and 20 percent cats — from about 20 source shelters, where they are in danger of being euthanized<br />because of lack of space, to some 62 receiving animal rescue organizations where these animals are more likely to be adopted.<br />As executive director and what I like to call administrator of logistics<br />and the occasional chaos, I work the phones and scour the internet looking to match shelters and rescue centers from our base at my home office in Jackson, Wyoming.<br />Peter often says he is a pilot who became a doctor, as opposed to a doctor who flies, since he started flying long before he became a physician.<br />We have just one plane, a Cessna Caravan 208B, owned<br />and flown by our lone pilot, Peter Rork, a retired orthopedic surgeon who founded our organization in 2012.<br />Kara Pollard, 33, is the executive director of Dog Is My CoPilot, an animal rescue operation in Jackson, Wyo.<br />My mom kept a note from my kindergarten teacher saying, “You’ve always been drawn to animals, so<br />I’m sure your passion will lead you to animals.” Being around animals makes me comfortable.
