03/08/2024
How PNP All Began: The iconic photo of Debi Boies and her beloved Brock. This Week Debi Made Forbes Magazine's List of Women 50 Over 50 Making an Impact ~ In 2008 the Cofounder & President of Pilots N Paws retired from nursing and began connecting volunteer pilots to animal rescue missions. In the last 15 years, some 6,000 volunteer pilots have flown 215,000 animals from kill shelters to safe rescues and forever homes across all 50 states. The idea for the nonprofit came when Debi, a lifelong animal lover, sought to rescue Brock, a Doberman who’d once been used to train fight dogs—but unfortunately he lived several states away. A pilot friend volunteered to retrieve and fly the dog, and once Brock was safely in his forever home with Debi, Pilots N Paws was born. And as they say, the rest is history, shall we add, and still in the making.