By Sasha Kerez | Resource Development
In July, we shared the story of three beautiful dogs – Tiger, Samara, and Bessie – whose adoptive families in the US and Canada were anxiously awaiting their arrival, but whose travel was made significantly harder by the Coronavirus pandemic.
We are happy to report that Bessie (now Lexi) joined her family in New York on October 13, 2020 and Samara (now Stormy) landed in California on October 22, 2020. We were unable to arrange their travel with a flight volunteer as we normally do (a person who already has a plane ticket to the needed destination and is willing to add our dog to his/her ticket) because very few airlines are currently accepting dogs in cargo. As such, we ended up raising money on Facebook to fund the dogs’ travel with Terminal4Pets – a costly, but very professional pet shipping service.
Tiger, who was supposed to be adopted by a family in Canada, ended up staying in Tel Aviv because his foster mama could not part with him and decided to adopt him herself. The family in Canada decided to adopt Jake who is a long-term shelter dog. We are so happy that he is finally going to leave the cage and have a family of his own! We will likely start another fundraiser to fund his travels soon.
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