Shelter Dogs Flown Into Morristown To Find Their Forever Homes

MORRISTOWN, NJ — More than 50 dogs from Louisiana and Alabama arrived at Morristown Airport last week with wagging tails and the hope of a life outside of shelter walls.

The dogs were transported from the small Morris County airport to the nearby St. Hubert's Animal Welfare Center in Madison for medical care, evaluation, and, eventually, placement in permanent homes.

The group of puppies are all asymptomatic heartworm positive and are being given a second chance through Greater Good Charities' Good Flights program.

To commemorate Greater Good Charities' 15th anniversary, the Good Flights program partnered with Boehringer Ingelheim Animal Health and The Animal Rescue Site to transport more than 50 at-risk shelter dogs from Louisiana and Alabama to forever homes on the East Coast.

This commemorative Save a Heart flight is one of several on-the-ground initiatives that Greater Good Charities will launch in September to mark the nonprofit's 15-year anniversary of amplifying good around the world.

Good Flights, a Greater Good Charities program, has successfully transported over 6,300 at-risk shelter pets to new homes.

More than 660 asymptomatic heartworm-positive dogs have been transported to safety as part of the Save a Heart initiative, which aims to reduce euthanasia in overcrowded animal shelters by preventing and treating heartworm disease in shelter dogs while transporting adoptable asymptomatic heartworm-positive dogs.