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Wondercide Teams Up With Dog is My CoPilot, Austin Pets Alive! and Matt Beisner to Save 50+ At-Risk Pets, Flying Them to Safety

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May 10, 2022

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Beneath-funded, over-crowded shelters depend on help from companions to keep away from euthanasia

Matt Beisner at Austin Pets Alive

AUSTIN, Texas, Could 10, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Timed with Nationwide Pet Month, Austin-based Wondercide, the chief in secure and efficient, plant-powered pest safety for pets, individuals, and houses, declares participation and funding of its second annual Texas-based pet rescue flight. Set to take off on Could 10 from Austin, TX, model companions Canine Is My CoPilot (DIMC), Austin Pets Alive! (APA!), Matt Beisner of “Canine: Not possible” on Disney+/NGW and rescue organizations in want have come collectively to avoid wasting 50+ canine and cats from euthanasia.

Canine Is My CoPilot is a nationwide nonprofit that transports at-risk animals from overcrowded shelters to adoption facilities in different geographic areas the place loving fosters and adoptive households are ready for them. DIMC was based by Peter E. Rork, a retired orthopedic surgeon and lifelong pilot. Up to now, the group has flown virtually 22,000 pets to security.

In line with the ASPCA, annually, roughly six million canine and cats enter U.S. animal shelters, and about a million are euthanized on account of overcrowded shelters, pet sickness, and habits points resembling aggression. Overcrowded and underfunded shelters flip to move packages provided by organizations resembling DIMC to get canine and cats safely from kill shelters to no-kill rescue organizations which might be devoted to discovering ceaselessly houses for these adoptable animals. The problem is native funding for each transport to get the pets from rural rescues right into a centralized location, in addition to the price of medical exams and certificates wanted earlier than pets can take flight, which most smaller shelters cannot afford.

Austin nonprofit Austin Pets Alive! (APA!), a nonprofit group that pioneers complete, revolutionary packages designed to avoid wasting animals most in danger, provides neighboring rescues transportation help for adoptable pets in addition to veterinarian companies to supply the medical exams and vaccinations, resembling rabies, required for pets to cross state strains.

“We estimate that roughly 150,000 pets are euthanized annually in Texas alone, however there’s a nationwide disaster,” stated Clare Callison, Director of Nationwide Pet Provide & Demand at Austin Pets Alive! “Many organizations do not even have the funding to pay for meals for the animals, a lot much less vet checks, exams, or flea-and-tick safety. No-kill rescue organizations have vet examine necessities that should be met earlier than receiving adoptable pets, so there is a massive have to discover a option to make this care obtainable. We noticed the struggles our neighboring rescues had been having and we knew we had to assist to extend the speed of stay outcomes for these pets who in any other case would not have a lot hope.”

For the previous two years, Wondercide pledged to donate a portion of gross sales from choose promotions and vacation scent sampler containers to Canine Is My CoPilot, and the non-profit is happy to announce this 12 months’s total flight has once more been made attainable by Wondercide clients and this beneficiant donation.

“We’ll proceed to seek out methods to help the rescue neighborhood and the organizations that go to the top of the earth to avoid wasting pets throughout the nation,” stated Stephanie Boone, Founder and CEO of Wondercide. “The volunteers at DIMC, APA!, and the underfunded shelters are shining examples of main with Fierce Love®. These inspiring persons are doing all the pieces of their energy and past to avoid wasting pets and we could not be extra honored to be a small a part of this massive love.”

In honor of the flight and Nationwide Pet Month, Wondercide is teaming up with licensed skilled canine coach and star of the Disney+ present, “Canine: Not possible,” Matt Beisner (CPDT-KA), to supply useful coaching suggestions for fosters and for brand spanking new pet dad and mom who undertake to make sure a contented consequence. Matt Beisner has spent his profession devoted to serving canine like these whose behavioral points are a typical response to the very environments they must be rescued from.

Beisner, an envoy of the Texas Humane Community, is a supporter of the rescue neighborhood and has modified harmful, fearful and confounding behaviors in canine with out counting on the usage of concern, drive, instructions or management. “In every canine, as in every of us, there is a chance for transformation whatever the life we have been given,” stated Beisner. “It is our responsibility to show these as soon as unimaginable canine, scared canine and canine who’ve by no means been beloved by people, that we’re right here to guard them to allow them to thrive.”

“We consider that collaboration is vital to saving extra lives and are humbled by the generosity of corporations like Wondercide and APA! who share our mission to assist defend as many pets as attainable,” stated Peter Rork, M.D., Chief Pilot and President of DIMC. “This rescue effort is a mannequin for partnership and we hope it should encourage extra individuals to work collectively for the larger good of our animal pals. These canine assume we’re saving them, however on the finish of the day, they save us. They provide us the prospect to do good and assist, to stay with a larger function than ourselves.”

The Could 10 flight will save roughly 50 at-risk canine and cats from throughout West Texas. The flight departs Austin round 5:00 am CST and can make stops in Fort Collins, Colorado, Salt Lake Metropolis, Utah, and Boise, Idaho, the place rescue companions will usher the pets to their new, great lives.

About Wondercide

Based in 2009 and as seen on Shark Tank in 2016, Wondercide is an Austin, TX, firm on a mission to guard pets, individuals, and houses from pests like fleas, ticks, and mosquitoes with secure, plant-powered, proven-to-work options. The whole lineup of merchandise is powered by pure important oils. Wondercide is woman-founded, eco-conscious, and made within the USA. Up to now, they’ve protected 1.5 million households and counting! Wondercide is pushed by Fierce Love® that can assist you Shield Your Pack® and is out there for buy on Wondercide.com, on Amazon.com, on Chewy.com, and at choose pet-specialty retail shops nationwide. For extra info, go to wondercide.com.

About Canine Is My CoPilot

Canine Is My CoPilot is a 501(c)3 that transports at-risk animals from overcrowded shelters to adoption facilities in different geographic areas the place loving households are ready. Peter E. Rork, M.D., an orthopedic surgeon and lifelong pilot, co-founded the group in 2012 with the objective of saving as many animal lives as attainable. Canine Is My CoPilot works collaboratively with metropolis shelters, native animal welfare organizations and people in 15 western states to coordinate transports. The group gives its air companies without charge to the shelters and adoption facilities with whom they accomplice. Since its inception, Canine Is My CoPilot has helped save the lives of over 16,500 canine and cats with our transport flights.

About Austin Pets Alive!

Austin Pets Alive! is a 501(c) (3) nonprofit group. Austin Pets Alive! is concentrated on saving the wholesome and treatable pets prone to euthanasia at metropolis shelters. Our mission is to advertise and supply the assets, training and packages wanted to get rid of the killing of companion animals. For extra info, go to www.austinpetsalive.org.

About Matt Beisner:

Skilled celeb canine coach, Matt Beisner (CPDT-KA) is the founding father of THE ZEN DOG and star of the favored worldwide present “Canine: Not possible” on Disney+ and Nationwide Geographic Wild. Matt has spent his profession devoted to serving canine whose behavioral points are a traditional response to the very environments they must be rescued from. Matt, an envoy of the Texas Humane Community, is a supporter of the rescue neighborhood and has labored with canine to assist change their harmful, fearful and confounding behaviors, with out counting on concern, drive, instructions or management. Matt’s work deeply displays his private dedication to hope, one thing that each canine – and their human – deserve, irrespective of the errors they’ve made. He now lives in Austin, Texas, together with his spouse Brooklin, their son and daughter, and their 4 as soon as “unimaginable” canine.”

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