Live Rescue: 12 Dogs Saved

6:30.

Hi, it's Michael Schneider, Top Dog Pilots to Rescue. Saved 12 dogs today from Screven County, Georgia. Flew them back here to our home base, Essex County, New Jersey. And welcome. Thank you for your support. Really appreciate it. On board with us today, we had Sai, the pilot. He supports our organization, is also a pilot. And let's check out the animals that we have. All the animals are going to Save Me in Philadelphia. Is it save me dot com? Dot org. Save me dot org. And let's check out, check out the pups.

Here we go.

So most of these dogs were COVID surrenders, we come to find out.

A lot of them were, yes.

Yeah. And this one is Lucy. Lucy's a very spirited gal. She sat on the lap of someone we brought in the back who will remain nameless.

No, my name is Andrea.

All right, here's Andrea. I didn't know if you wanted to be on camera.

It's okay.

How was, how was Lucy?

Lucy was a good girl.

Lucy's a good girl. All right. Hi Joey. Hi Gordon. Hi Daniel. Hi Luanne. Thanks for joining us. All right, so we'll get Lucy first, I guess, into the van. Hi Kathy.

Place for him to stay.

All right, come on Lucy, let's get you in.

Let's go, Lucy.

Lucy. Once again, these 12 dogs were rescued from Screven County, Georgia, and they're going to Save Me in Philadelphia. Hi, Jim. One at a time. Hold on. Good girl. Hi, Jim. Hi, Louis.

Hi. Yes. Bye, sweet dog.

Bye, Lucy.

Good job.

We need a plane that has room like this van, so we hope you guys help us raise some money so we can buy our next plane. Should be able to fit this many crates in there. All right, Lucy, say goodbye. Bye, Lucy. See you, Lucy. Be a good girl. She'll end up in a great home. All right, who's coming next? Who's this? Sai, say hi to everybody.

Sai, hello. How are you all?

How was the flight, Sai?

Flight was great, and this little girl was on my lap all the way up.

What is this girl's name? Do we know this girl's name?

This is Little Red.

Little Red.

Little Red was on my lap all the way up. She was a very good girl, very well behaved.

Hi, Deborah. Hi, William.

Very well behaved.

Hi, Little Red. Yeah, she was great co-pilot, as we call her.

She was well-behaved girl. Hi, Rail.

Great.

All right, Little Red, let's get you up.

Come on. Put her in the back as well.

Okay, come.

Bye, little rat.

Are you getting the pictures that you want, Eva?

Yeah.

Okay, good. No, come on, you need us to pause? No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

Okay.

Hi, Kim. Hi, Jack.

It's okay, don't worry, don't worry.

Come on, girlfriend, you ready?

All right, all righty.

You want me to help you?

No, I got her.

Thank you. You sure?

Hi, Louis.

You get home We hope they're going to get homes, right?

Oh, they absolutely will.

No, thanks, Luanne. Boy, that's a nice pup.

That's a good girl, huh?

Hi, Hortensia.

Bringing home, you know, for sure. Yeah, we took an adoption. She ended up being 26.

See you, Little Red. Yeah, bye-bye. Bye-bye. Long trip, long trip from Scriven County. Who do we got here? CC! Hi, CC! Hi, CC! Hi, CC! Nice to meet you. Good girl. Where'd you come from? Were you in one of those crates in the back of the plane?

He was— she was on the floor.

She was the other one we gathered. Beautiful.

Good girl.

So nice.

She's a good girl.

Yeah, she's a good girl. Look at— she loves being photographed.

Oh yeah, look at this. I could do anything to her.

He said get a profile now.

That's right. All right, CC.

Where do we put CeCe?

Hey, what's your name again?

Wayne, right? Yeah, I was calling you Ray, but now I got, I got Wayne now. All right, CeCe, good girl, good girl. We got 12 dogs from Screven County, Georgia. A lot of COVID victims, unfortunately, people that passed away or can no longer take care of these animals in Georgia, and, uh, we flew them back here to Essex County, and they're going to end up at Save Me in Philadelphia.

Rocket is really—

you don't want them to take these crates?

Uh, no, they have the crates. They can use—

prison cells.

Who do you want to take next? This guy, Rocket. All right, come on, Rocket. What do we know about Rocket? Anything?

Rock— I don't know if that's Rocket. Oh, this one might— one of them. Rocket and Bandit together.

Is it like a cattle, cattle healer mix or something like that? Cattle?

We got a Jack mix and a Rat Terrier.

Oh, Jack mix and a Rat Terrier.

Yeah, I think this is the Rat Terrier.

I don't think you have to worry about any small animals in your home if you adopt this one.

That's not Rocket, that's the Rat Terrier. Okay, this is Rocket.

Okay, so we're calling him Rat Terrier for now.

Bandit. Bandit. Hi, Bandit.

Got to get him a red, uh, handkerchief, right? Call him Bandit. Oh, you might have to pee.

You got to pee? You can go pee. Put him in the back.

Bandit's a quick one. Okay, well, we'll let Bandit do his business.

Who's next? Rocket as well.

Rocket. Let's hope Rocket doesn't come out of the crate like a rocket.

He wants to. Hi, Rocket! Hi, Rocket!

What's up, Rocket?

Whoops!

They were pretty good, Andrew. They were pretty good.

They were wonderful.

Tangled up in your stuff, right?

Only the only one excited to be out of that crate.

But you're on an airplane.

That's right. Oh, you're on the trail of something. Oh boy, he's excited. He's on the trail of something. All right, Andrea, who we got next?

This little white girl. All right, I don't remember her name.

I don't either. Oh, it's Chewy. Okay, Chewy's coming next. Hi Sandy, thanks for tuning in. Hi Jerry, Luanne, welcome back. Dawn, it's great to see you guys.

Those are empty cages, right?

Well, while we're waiting for the next dog, uh, would like to make a request for all of you to please share this post, this live stream, or share our page. Of course, we appreciate donations, but sharing what we do in our mission is equally as important. As well as you can purchase merchandise from our store. We have different merchandise, and we're still having a contest. If you start a Facebook or Instagram fundraiser We're going to pick 2 lucky people, one random fundraiser and one who raises the most money on Thanksgiving Day. So you have until Thanksgiving Day to start a fundraiser on Facebook or Instagram, and you can fly with me, Top Dog, to rescue some animals. Of course, that's the prize, and I'd love to have you along. Thank you, Mary. Here we go. Who's next? This is, uh, make sure you get a slip leash on her or else she'll run around.

Come on. Come on, that's it.

Get us the leash on her, please. Yeah, cuz these dogs get scared and they dart and lose the dog forever.

Okay, come on now. Come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on.

A little scared to come out of the crate.

Well, I guess they've been comfortable in there.

Yeah. You want some help?

Oh no, I got her, I think. Okay, now I finally—

okay, don't lose the leash.

Yep, hold that crate.

I got it.

Okay, all right, all right.

Okay, this is Chewy. Hi, Chewy!

Hi!

Oh, good girl. She is a beautiful white dog.

Very good girl. Very good girl. Very good girl. Good girl. She's a very good girl. Hey girl, right? You're a good girl. She's very good. Very—

there's Chewy. Hi Chewy.

Oh, she's very good.

Oh, she's a little scared coming out of the crate, but she's showing her personality now.

I love her ears. They're like rabbit ears. Who's got rabbit ears? Picture ears.

Okay, here's another one.

She's a good girl.

Oh, look at her giving you a paw.

Good girl. Look at that ear.

Shush.

Who's next? What we got?

I think the 3 of these or something. This one is that gray one, I think. Are you Katie?

Oh, Maria, thanks for joining us. We have someone joining us from the Philippines.

Yeah, yeah, that's the one who just looked like she had babies.

Oh, okay. Yeah, we— this one just had babies. We don't know where our puppies are. Poor gal. I think she was, uh, so scared. Part pit bull, right? Is it part pit bull or English Bulldog?

Pit bull. Girl, you were a good girl.

Very good girl. Very good girl, very good girl, very good girl.

Hi Nadine.

Oh, hello. Just a little skinny, but she's a very good girl.

She's excited. She take care of her business.

Bandit, I think they all went to go ride.

Oh yeah, well, the big one over there, big We got 2 more, 2 more. Hi Debbie, hi Catherine. Here's the plane in case you guys are wondering what it looks like inside. I don't know how well we'll see because it's dark, too dark in there. Yeah, I got a light. People are asking about the plane, the puppy pad. We need a bit, we need a bigger plane. Oh, we need a bigger plane, folks. Uh, we do as much as we can with our small little plane.

And that's a lot of puppies.

Uh, Nadine, Nadine, they're going to Philadelphia, a group called Save Me. It's saveme.org. Hi, Lynn. Okay, we got 2 left.

Yeah, there's 3 here and 2 there. All right, are you doubled up?

Yeah, they're doubled up. There's 2 in here and 3 in there. Yeah, yeah, just be careful they don't dart out. You know what it's like when you open up that crate. We had a loose dog the other day, Wayne. Did you hear about that?

No.

Yeah, we were doing a film. They round them up, uh, I'd say 5 minutes. She didn't— and she didn't run to the runway, so that was good.

I'm going to close it.

That way you can go. Okay.

I don't know who that one Hi girlfriend! Hi! Hi!

Good to be out of that crate.

Another nice— this is Bella.

Bella!

Hi Bella! Bella!

Hi Bella! All right Bella, Bella's one big lap dog.

Yeah, and this one is—

that should be Remy.

Remy!

That's Remy!

Hi Remy!

Hi Rems!

What's up Remy?

Hi Rems! You scared?

Aww, hi there! Hey, you want to get this nice Remy, Remy and Bella.

Justina, you're going back. You're gonna be fine. You're gonna be fine. Don't worry.

Oh, Luanne, you, you flew in a 6-seater, I guess. It's a 6-seater aircraft, the Piper Saratoga.

How long were they with you?

She's got a good memory. Got to take her along on more rescue flights.

Yeah.

Sai, anything else you want to say?

No, just, it's just an amazing thing to rescue these dogs and know that they're going to have homes.

Yeah, Sai's a great supporter of Pilots to Rescue and a pilot himself. Jennifer says there's a special place in heaven for us.

There you go.

What do you think? These are God's creatures, right? Yep, that's right. Hi Rita! You can get ready to fly that nighttime now. Okay, who's next?

Ready? So we should have— we've got 3 in there. We should have Kendall. Yes, Katie and Sadie should be in here.

You still got more?

3.

Oh man, 3 of them are in there.

Yeah.

Oh my God, that's where the puppy—

thanks, Louis, I appreciate it. You just got to play the lotto, Louis.

3, 5, 6.

Hey there, thanks Bobby. Hi Rita. Oh, there he goes. Oh, thanks for the light, that actually helps a lot. Oh yeah, yeah, we should have said something.

Yeah, good.

All right, yeah, sure.

Okay, this is candle.

Candle. Hi Kendall. Kendall's got— it's a brindle.

Yeah, yeah. Kendall's owner was another, another guy who got sick with COVID Another COVID victim.

Yeah. What do you mean, he got COVID? Uh, no, his owner.

The owner's had it.

Yeah, a lot of the owners had COVID. Some of them died.

Yeah.

Oh my goodness, that's even