It turns out that herding cats isn’t as bad as people make it sound. However, it was definitely made easier with several rescue volunteers, a friend from the Bay Area visiting and six (6) pet crates!
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Mona (left), Mary (second from left), myself and Jason (right) taking inventory of all these cats before solving the Tetris puzzle of fitting the crates inside the airplane. We were expecting ten cats, but one just couldn’t be parted with, so we took nine.
This flight turned out to be very uneventful. The biggest issue was the logistics of segregating the cats so that they would be okay to travel in the same crate and sourcing enough crates for them all. Thankfully the other volunteers had crates to spare both on the sending and receiving end to make it happen.
Cool weather and a long-lasting high pressure system made the flight hazy, but very calm with almost zero wind all the way up around 13,000 feet.
We met with Jolene at the Mountain West FBO and she took the critters to PetSmart and had four of them adopted in less than three (3) hours after landing!!!
Since Facebook wants to monopolize your attention I can’t embed Mona’s FB post here. You’ll need to follow the link below for more photos and a video of our takeoff out of Fresno-Chandler Executive airport:
Thanks to all the volunteers and Kim P. working behind the scenes to coordinate us and the other volunteers!