Volunteer pilots are flying planeloads of dogs and cats out of Puerto Rico
by Arin Greenwood / Oct.03.2017 / 10:39 AM ET
Ric Browde arrived in Puerto Rico on Friday with a couple thousand pounds of water, diapers, food and other supplies packed into his rented cargo plane. He left with a plane full of dogs and cats, bound for New Jersey. This was the first step in their journey to new lives on the U.S. mainland.
Browde is president and CEO of Wings of Rescue, a nonprofit that deploys volunteer pilots to evacuate animals from places where their lives are at risk. He's been flying basically nonstop since the end of August, when Hurricane Harvey hit Texas — and expects Friday's mission is just the beginning of the animal airlifts out of this devastated island.
"We just want to do what's best," Browde told TODAY. "Make sure that we are doing the right thing."
Many of these animals had been part of The Sato Project, a Puerto Rican animal rescue group, before Hurricane Maria devastated the island about a week and a half ago.
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Not exactly LBN, I know, but I thought some might find it heartening.
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I was dubious since he came from a local shelter - but then I had a conversation with a woman (and her dog) in PetsMart who said her dog was also rescued from Puerto Rico. Kudos to those who are doing this wonderful and lifesaving work. 
