Photo: Humane Society of Broward County
The hearts of dozens of rescue dogs are on the mend.
According toa release from Greater Good Charities, in honor of Heartworm Awareness Month, the organization partnered with Boehringer Ingelheim Animal Health — the maker of HEARTGARD Plus — and The Animal Rescue Site to help 1,000 asymptomatic heartworm-positive dogs as part of their Good Flights program.
To help achieve this goal, the Save a Heart initiative is pulling 1,000 heartworm-positive rescue dogs from crowded Louisiana shelters where they are at risk of being euthanized. These canines will be treated for free and transported to Greater Good Charities shelter partners on the East Coast with the resources and foster networks to care for the heartworm-positive dogs and find them forever homes fast.
St. Charles Parish Animal Shelter
Greater Good Charities
These first flights led to happy faces all around, both human and canine, which is a good sign for the transports to come.Save a Hearttransports will continue approximately two to three times a month throughout 2021.
“With current euthanasia rates of heartworm-positive dogs in partner Louisiana shelters, the alternative to aSave a Heartflight and treatment is life in a stressful, overstimulating shelter environment and, very often, humane euthanasia due to lack of resources,” Julie Ryan-Johnson DVM, the associate director of shelter programs at Boehringer Ingelheim Animal Health, said of why these transports are so important.
source: people.com
