Pilots N Paws 5000 Animal Rescue Week. They Need Everyone's Help

I am crossposting this:

Participation with rescues, transporters, shelters, and especially pilots NATIONALLY!! Everyone can help just by going to their website: http://pilotsnpaws./ org/ and joining then going to their discussion board (on the left), and clicking on "Other Volunteer offers", then on the "5000 Animal Rescue Week" link. When you join you can tell them what you can do as in foster, be a pilot etc. It's important this is sent all over the US. It's important it receives media coverage. This is what is going to help the animals. I know it seems like a long way off but, it takes time to coordinate something this huge, and they need all the help they can get. Please, get this out there. If you have any friends who are pilots, send it to them. If you have friends in the media, or connections to people like Oprah, or other big name people, get this out there. You know these shows take time to set up. Get it to shelters, transporters, truckers who help in rural areas. This is how they manage to get this done. It's not just in the air, it's the highly important people on the ground as well. These guys and women can only fly about 300 miles at a time. The people on the ground help an enormous amount as well. So let's get all siked up on this one people. Lets get it done. The week of September 12th through the 20th they want to move 5000 animals to safety and with every ones help, it can be done. Here is what Jon from PNP's wants folks to know and I told him I would get it out and ask everyone to cross post it (just not on craigs list):Re: 5000 Animal Rescue Week Sept.12 through Sept 20th!!Error! Filename not specified.by Jon on Wed Jun 10, 2009 11:48 am Let me see if I can summarize this so it can be distributed nationally.During the week of September 12 through the 20th we want those participating in pilots n paws to be a part of transports all around the country and we have set a lofty goal of transporting 5000 animals to safety and their forever homes. We are doing this to gain local and national media attention about three themes. The first is the most important and that is to make the public aware of the dire need for spay and neuter programs so we do not have to kill millions of animals annually. Secondly we want to make the general public aware that general aviation, its pilots and plane owners, make a huge contribution to our nation, not only in the furtherance of their businesses and personal interests, but for humanitarian purposes including the transport of rescue animals. Finally we want pilots and plane owners to be aware of the need for animal transports so we can greatly increase the ranks of those pilots and plane owners so no request for transports goesunanswered.None of this will happen without strong support and help from shelters and rescues and fosters. If a shelter or rescue is from an area that has high rates of euthanasia we want that shelter or rescue to pencil the week listed above and commit to making an animal or multiple animals available to a shelter, rescue or foster in an area where these animals can be placed in forever homes. We know nobody can predict what animals are going to be available, or their size, or even how many during that week in September, but we do know there will be animals available. Those sending rescues and shelters need to locate their counterparts in areas of the country where high kill rates are not the rule, and get them to agree to make space available for the animals that will be rescued. Ideally the distance between the sending and receiving parties should be 300 miles (more or less, we pilots have some flexibility) so we can avoid having transport relays which aredifficult to coordinate.The sending and receiving pair will then have a pilot or pilots volunteer to do that transport during the rescue week. Each team of pilot, sending and receiving rescues or shelters will handle their own transport details regarding timing, and especially media coverage. We want to involve as much local and national media attention as possible to make the public aware of the needs.There are many more details to be worked out and time is rapidly winding down so it is critical that we get sending and receiving pairs so we can get pilots on board to volunteer to do their part.Kathie Sullivan-ParkesEast Corinth, VT