{"id":21376,"date":"2026-03-11T11:02:23","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T11:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gpbookstore.org\/articles\/uncategorized\/dogs-on-a-plane\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T06:12:03","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T06:12:03","slug":"dogs-on-a-plane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gpbookstore.org\/articles\/positive-living\/health-and-wellness\/life-advice\/finding-life-purpose\/dogs-on-a-plane\/","title":{"rendered":"Dogs on a Plane!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some people can\u2019t wait to retire. Some people can\u2019t stand it.<\/p>\n

That was me. Even though it had been 10 years since I\u2019d sold my metal fabrication business in New York and moved down to Knoxville, Tennessee, with my wife, Diane, I still refused to call myself retired. That sounded so final. I was just 64, plenty of miles left in me. Surely God had something more in mind for me.<\/p>\n

The problem was, I couldn\u2019t figure out what it was. I could spend only so many hours puttering around my garden or tinkering in my garage. All the energy I used to pour into running my business had to go somewhere. For a while, flying was my outlet. There was nothing like jumping in my plane and taking off into the wild blue yonder. I loved my Cessna P-210. I\u2019d flown that baby for 25 years, most of the time for work and these past several years strictly for fun.<\/p>\n

But lately even flying wasn\u2019t much fun. I was tired of $100 hamburgers. That\u2019s pilot slang for making a short hop to a town nearby, grabbing a burger at the airport coffee shop and flying home. A hundred dollars was roughly what it cost to fly a small plane for a two-hour round-trip. Or used to cost before aviation fuel prices shot way up. \u201cMaybe it\u2019s time to sell the plane,\u201d I said to Diane one night.<\/p>\n

Diane knew I\u2019d been at loose ends, but still she was surprised. \u201cYou love flying,\u201d she said. \u201cAre you sure you\u2019re ready to give it up?\u201d Well, no, I wasn\u2019t 100 percent sure. So I prayed, Lord, help me find something worthwhile to do with my plane. With myself, really.<\/em><\/p>\n

Not long after, I got a call from Debi Boies, a friend in Landrum, South Carolina. \u201cHey, Jon, I\u2019ve got a strange favor to ask,\u201d she said. \u201cI remember you saying that pilots jump at any excuse to fly.\u201d<\/p>\n

I chuckled. \u201cThat we do. What\u2019s up?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBob and I heard about a badly abused dog in Florida who needs a home,\u201d she said. \u201cHe\u2019s a good-sized Doberman, and neither of our cars would give him enough room. Would you be willing to meet Bob in Tallahassee and fly him and the dog back here to Landrum?\u201d<\/p>\n

I knew Debi and Bob were active with an animal rescue group, but I didn\u2019t know much about the work they did. I loved dogs, though\u2014Diane and I had adopted two strays ourselves\u2014and I told my friend I was glad to help. So far my passengers had been the two-legged kind. What would flying a dog be like?<\/p>\n

That weekend I found out. At the Tallahassee airport, Bob lifted the dog into the backseat of my Cessna. \u201cJon, this is Brock,\u201d Bob said.<\/p>\n

I turned in my seat to get a good look at my passenger. The Doberman pinschers I\u2019d seen before were magnificent, muscular animals. The dog fidgeting and whining in the back was scrawny, his ribs showing. His face and neck were splotched with scars. Bob told me he\u2019d been rescued from owners who were into dog fighting. They\u2019d used poor Brock as bait to train other dogs to fight and kill. They filed his teeth down so he couldn\u2019t defend himself, slapped a crude tattoo on his belly. I couldn\u2019t see that from the cockpit. What I saw were the most soulful brown eyes gazing back at me. \u201cHow could anyone treat an animal so badly?\u201d I exclaimed. \u201cIt\u2019s obvious he\u2019s smart and sensitive. Just look at those eyes.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou got me,\u201d Bob said. He got into the seat beside me. \u201cBut it happens more than you\u2019d think. That\u2019s what keeps us doing dog rescue.\u201d<\/p>\n

I cranked up the engine, hoping the noise wouldn\u2019t startle the skittish Doberman. The opposite happened. He stopped whining and settled down. \u201cAttaboy, Brock,\u201d I said. \u201cNothing to be scared of. We\u2019re taking you to a place where no one will hurt you again.\u201d I taxied down the runway and took off. Ninety minutes later we landed at the Landrum airport. Brock had spent the whole flight lying quietly, better behaved than some human passengers. Bob got him out of the plane and led him into the terminal, where Debi was waiting.<\/p>\n

As soon as I finished filing paperwork for our flight, I joined them. Debi was stroking Brock\u2019s back and he was leaning into her hand, as if he knew she\u2019d give him the loving home he deserved.<\/p>\n

\u201cJon, thank you for flying our boy here,\u201d she said. \u201cDo you know how lucky he is?\u201d I looked at her quizzically.<\/p>\n

\u201cMillions of animals are euthanized each year because shelters don\u2019t have the space or money to keep them until homes can be found for them,\u201d she said. \u201cEven when people want to adopt them, they\u2019re often hundreds\u2014sometimes thousands\u2014of miles away.<\/p>\n

\u201cTransporting them is a challenge,\u201d she continued. \u201cThere\u2019s a loose network of volunteers, but it usually takes several cars and drivers to relay these pets to their new homes. You can imagine how stressed out they get, being transferred from one car to another. It\u2019s hard on the drivers too.\u201d Debi sighed. \u201cI wish there were a better solution.\u201d<\/p>\n

The whole flight back to Knoxville I kept thinking about what Debi had said. Back home, I kissed Diane hello and headed straight for my computer. I searched the internet for stories on transporting rescued animals. \u201cListen to this,\u201d I said to Diane. \u201cA New Hampshire family offered to adopt an abandoned dog in Alabama. It took 16 volunteer drivers to get him to their house.\u201d<\/p>\n

But like Debi had pointed out, that dog was one of the lucky ones. In many cases, there was no way to get homeless animals to people in another part of the country who wanted to adopt them.<\/p>\n

Wait a minute\u2026hadn\u2019t I been praying for something worthwhile to do with my plane? There must be hundreds of pilots like me around the country itching for a good reason to fly<\/em>, I thought.<\/p>\n

I picked up the telephone. \u201cHey, Debi, it\u2019s Jon,\u201d I said. \u201cYou know animal rescue. I know aviation. There\u2019s got to be a way we can tackle this problem together.\u201d<\/p>\n

We dreamed up Pilots N Paws, a website that\u2019s an online meeting place for animal rescuers around the country and pilots willing to volunteer their time and planes. People post pet transport requests on a message board. If pilots can help, they get in touch with the rescuer directly.<\/p>\n

Sometimes in business, you have a good idea but it just doesn\u2019t take off (no pilot pun intended). This was different. This was about saving the lives of innocent animals. The site was up and running in March 2008, and soon dozens of recreational pilots had signed up.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re almost 2,000 pilots strong now. We\u2019ve transported thousands of adoptable animals\u2014dogs, cats, rabbits, birds, even reptiles\u2014to their forever homes. I\u2019ve rescued more than 500 animals myself, including one memorable mission last September. Sixty-eight volunteer pilots helped fly 171 dogs out of New Orleans, so hard hit by Hurricane Katrina and then the disastrous BP oil spill, to new homes as far away as Iowa and New Jersey.<\/p>\n

That was my last trip as an animal rescue pilot. It\u2019s time for me to sell my plane and give up flying. I do it happily, knowing I\u2019m leaving Pilots N Paws in wonderful hands. But don\u2019t call me retired just yet. I\u2019m ready for whatever God has planned for me next. <\/p>\n

Take a peek at our slideshow <\/a>depicting the canine rescue efforts of Pilots N Paws<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Download your FREE ebook, True Inspirational Stories: 9 Real Life Stories of Hope & Faith<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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