Aug 24, 2023

Take a look at BT in his tiny aviator costume! That is what this candy man wore to rejoice sitting shotgun subsequent to the pilot, on his rescue flight from Texas to Massachusetts.

BT might simply haven’t made this journey. He’s diabetic, and has a illness referred to as feline leukemia (FeLV)—a virus that impacts a cat’s immune system.,. In lots of shelters, cats with FeLV are euthanized as a matter in fact. That is largely primarily based on the unfounded perception that individuals will not need to undertake cats with the sickness as a result of it impacts the animal’s life span.

However APA! has confirmed this isn’t the case. We have proven that not solely can cats with FeLV stay lengthy, wholesome lives however many adopters even search these cats out.  As a result of so many FeLV cats are euthanized in shelters, it may be exhausting to search out one who is accessible.

That is what occurred with BT, whose adopters have been in Massachusetts. They beloved him from the second they noticed his picture, and so we caught him a transport flight to his new dwelling, on a aircraft that was in any other case filled with canine.

APA!’s Transport Program means 1000’s of adoptable pets going through euthanasia in crowded Texas shelters are capable of attain in communities the place they’re welcomed into new properties.  Transport may imply aviator fits on kitties who do not usually get to stay, within the present sheltering system. However once they do, once they do, they’re so particular, so needed, and so beloved, that individuals will transfer mountains—and airplanes—to get them to dwelling.