ASPCA与IPAW Rescue投入140万美元扩增收容动物空运：每年8000多只猫狗乘飞机寻找新家
美国防止虐待动物协会（ASPCA）与 Carl C. Icahn 创办的 IPAW Rescue 在 New York 宣布一项为期多年、总额140万美元的联合资助计划，支持非营利组织 Dog Is My CoPilot 扩大用飞机转运收容动物的规模，把拥挤收容所里的猫狗送到更容易被领养的地方。ASPCA 将在四年内投入100万美元，自2026年10月起每年25万美元，IPAW Rescue 另行投入40万美元。
Dog Is My CoPilot 拥有三架救援飞机，每年转运8,000多只猫狗，主要从加州、New Mexico、Oklahoma 与 Texas 等接收量大、收容所拥挤的州出发，把动物送往东西海岸需求更高的领养伙伴机构。该组织2012年成立以来已飞行转运50,000多只猫狗，与全美200多家收容所与救援组织合作，转运对伙伴机构免费。
ASPCA 主席兼首席执行官 Matt Bershadker 表示，ASPCA 的动物安置转运项目自2014年启动以来已转运30多万只动物，这类合作不只改变飞机上动物的命运，也为收容所腾出空间与资源。Dog Is My CoPilot 创始人兼首席飞行员 Peter E. Rork 博士说，没有任何一家机构能独自完成这件事，收容所、转运组织、领养伙伴与支持者的协作才能让更多动物得到第二次机会。IPAW Rescue 创始人 Carl C. Icahn 表示，三方合作正是动物福利事业需要的模式。
ASPCA 指出，2025年有近600万只猫狗进入全美收容所与救援机构，不少收容所已满负荷，动物等待领养的时间也在变长。陆路距离过远或存在安全顾虑时，空运能把转运范围扩展到地面交通难以到达的伙伴社区。这笔新资助将用于新增转运运力，建立在 ASPCA 与 Dog Is My CoPilot 此前合作的基础上。ASPCA 的转运项目覆盖40个州、140家伙伴收容所，2014年以来经11,000多次陆空行程转运逾30万只动物，其中狗逾22.5万只、猫逾10万只。（来源：ASPCA）
ASPCA and IPAW Rescue Commit $1.4 Million to Expand Air Transports for Shelter Animals
The ASPCA and Carl C. Icahn's IPAW Rescue announced in New York a joint multi-year $1.4 million funding initiative to support Dog Is My CoPilot, expanding its work transporting at-risk animals by airplane from crowded shelters to areas where they have a greater opportunity to find homes. The ASPCA has committed $1,000,000 over four years, providing $250,000 annually beginning in October 2026, with IPAW Rescue contributing an additional $400,000.
Dog Is My CoPilot transports more than 8,000 dogs and cats annually using three rescue aircraft, primarily moving animals from high-intake, crowded shelters in states including California, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas to adoption partners on both the east and west coasts. Since its founding in 2012, the organization has flown more than 50,000 dogs and cats to safety, working with over 200 shelters and rescue organizations nationwide, at no cost to partner organizations.
Matt Bershadker, ASPCA President and CEO, said the ASPCA Animal Relocation program has transported more than 300,000 animals since launching in 2014, and that such partnerships also create space and resources in shelters for other animals in need. Dr. Peter E. Rork, founder and chief pilot of Dog Is My CoPilot, said no single organization can do this alone and that collaboration among shelters, transport organizations, adoption partners and supporters gives thousands of at-risk animals a second chance. Carl C. Icahn, founder and president of IPAW Rescue, called the three-way effort the kind of collaboration animal welfare needs.
The ASPCA noted that nearly six million dogs and cats entered shelters and rescues in 2025, many shelters are at capacity, and animals are staying longer before being adopted. Flight transports let organizations reach partners in areas ground transport cannot practically serve. The new funding will create additional transport capacity, building on previous ASPCA collaboration with Dog Is My CoPilot. The ASPCA relocation program operates in 40 states with 140 partner shelters and has moved over 300,000 animals, including more than 225,000 dogs and more than 100,000 cats, on over 11,000 ground and air trips since 2014. (Source: ASPCA)
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图片来源：图：等待转运的收容犬只装在运输笼中（资料图）。图：FEMA，Jocelyn Augustino 摄，2005 年，公共领域，经 Wikimedia Commons。 / Photo: Shelter dogs in carriers awaiting transport (file photo). Image: FEMA, by Jocelyn Augustino, 2005, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
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