article_snippet.sent: There's no in-flight service but most pooches don't mind - just the fact most
article_snippet.sent: Pilot pooch, do you read me?
article_snippet.sent: In safe hands: In this December 2014 photo provided courtesy of ShelterMe, pilot Jim Nista delivers Finn, a rescued dog, in Everett, Washington .
article_snippet.sent: The group's 5,000-plus pilots have flown more than 15,000 dogs to new homes each of the past two years, relocating more than 75,000 animals over the last seven years, she said.
article_snippet.sent: Quinn started as the lone pilot who rescued 300 dogs, and now the group expects to fly 7,000 pets in 2015, Quinn said.
article_snippet.sent: The pilot of 27 years will charter planes to move dogs if there aren't enough private planes, meaning flights cost about $80 per dog.
article_snippet.sent: Netanel and Quinn 28 pilots are preparing to take flight this weekend with 250 dogs from San Bernardino, 150 from Bakersfield and smaller numbers from other locations.
article_snippet.sent: Pilots Kale and Anj Garcia of Seattle will be in San Bernardino to bring as many as 50 dogs back to Washington state in as many as 50 dogs seven-passenger Cessna 414. as many as 50 dogs have flown 16 missions for Wings of Rescue.
article_snippet.sent: The flights allowed Cathy Parker of Coeur d'Alene to find Cathy Parker dogs: Bella, a poodle-Chihuahua mix, and Sidney, a poodle-Pomeranian mix, who Wings of Rescue Rescue delivered from different shelters about nine months apart. 'as many as 50 dogs've been a real good match for each other and me,' Cathy Parker said.
article_snippet.sent: Pet taxi: In this Nov. 22, 2014 photo, Steven Latham, founder of Shelter Me, helps pilot Yehuda Netanel, founder of Wings of RescueRescue, load a shelter pup onto a private plane at the Van Nuys airport in Los Angeles .
article_snippet.sent: Paws for celebration: In the last two years, Wings of Rescue Rescue have flown more than 15,000 dogs annually to new homes and have relocated more than 75,000 in seven years .