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Continental evacuates homeless dogs
Airline Industry Information, Sept 12, 2005
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Continental Airlines (NYSE: CAL) has said that the airline operated a flight for dogs only on 11 September to evacuate dogs who are homeless as a result of Hurricane Katrina.
According to the airline, the charter flight was arranged by PetRelocations.com out of Austin, Texas, and funded by Madeleine and Boone Pickens.
The Boeing 737-800 aircraft carrying the canines was set to depart from Baton Rouge, Louisiana and make the first stop in San Diego, where 50 pregnant dogs would leave. The second scheduled stop was San Francisco, where the remaining dogs were going to foster homes. The dogs going to San Diego are being received by volunteers from the Helen Woodward Animal Center. The centre plans to place them with families waiting to adopt them, while the dogs going to San Francisco are being received by volunteers from several chapters of the San Francisco Bay Area Humane Society. These dogs also are being placed in adoptive homes.
Continental said that the arrangements for the dogs were for them to be travelling in kennels in both the belly of the aircraft and in the passenger compartment. The dogs come from shelters in the hurricane zone, which are unable to continue caring for them.
Continental is able to provide an aircraft for the charter because the human airlift from New Orleans has diminished as the population of the city has dwindled.
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