Seven dogs from Los Angeles animal shelters were flown into Cache Valley on Friday, Jan. 17, 2025 by volunteers hoping to give them a better chance at a new home.
LOGAN – With a little barking and tails wagging, seven dogs from Los Angeles-area animal shelters were flown into Cache Valley on Friday by volunteers hoping to give them a better chance at new homes.
“We’re really excited for these guys, we hope they get adopted,” says Cache Humane Society Director Bri Smith.
Seven dogs from Los Angeles animal shelters were flown into Cache Valley on Friday, Jan. 17, 2025 by volunteers hoping to give them a better chance at a new home. (Photo: Cimaron Neugebauer)
Bubbles, a chocolate-colored bulldog mix, was one of the transported pets that got to briefly walk around for cameras. She was licking her snout, looking around and getting all the belly rubs and scratches she could before being put back in her transport crate.
Stacey Frisk, Cache Humane Society Development Coordinator, said the dogs transported to Logan were not displaced by the wildfires, but rather adoptable dogs already in the shelter system in LA.
“They are being sent to shelters across the country so those kennels can be repurposed to reunite displaced families with their pets,” Frisk said. “We’d love to see people come in and adopt. The more kennels we free up, the more we can help.”
Since Jan. 7, thousands of people and pets have been displaced after destructive and historic wildfires in Southern California.
Volunteers with Wings of Rescue talk about their trip from California to Logan. Seven dogs from Los Angeles animal shelters were flown into Cache Valley on Friday, Jan. 17, 2025 by volunteers hoping to give them a better chance at a new home. (Photo: Cimaron Neugebauer)
Volunteer pilots from Wings of Rescue landed the fixed-wing single engine plane at the Logan-Cache Airport on Friday evening, amidst frigid winds. Crews from Cache Humane Society unloaded the animals from the plane on the tarmac to a transport van.
Wings of Rescue, a Los Angeles-based nonprofit, is donating all flight services to move LA shelter pets around the country. The organization’s goal is to transport pets from disaster areas & overcrowded shelters.
Most of the dogs are mixed breeds with some weighing up to 80 lbs. Potential pet owners may look at all the pets online and also come in and visit and get to know the dogs at Cache Humane.
From left to right: Collette Anderson and Becka Fagerburg with Cache Humane Society. Seven dogs from Los Angeles animal shelters were flown into Cache Valley on Friday, Jan. 17, 2025 by volunteers hoping to give them a better chance at a new home. (Photo: Cimaron Neugebauer)
CHS has already had 20 adoptions in 2025 in Cache Valley and most pets’ average length of stay is 24 days. Smith says the more dogs adopted locally will free up space to allow for more to be brought in from LA.
Cache Humane Society is a charitably funded nonprofit organization and all donations made to it stay in the valley and directly go to the care of these pets, Frisk said.
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