10/28/2026
❤️🐾 WHAT AN INCREDIBLE RESCUE TEAM EFFORT! 🐾❤️
When animal lovers come together, amazing things happen! Tilly and her puppies are proof of what’s possible when people open their hearts, homes, and even their airplanes to save lives. 💕
🏡 FIRST, THE FOSTERS!
Joanie McMahon May and her husband, Paul, who have adopted FOUR dogs from Circle 2 Rescue and fostered many others, stepped up to take all of Tilly’s puppies! And because they both work full-time, their wonderful neighbor Ryan Wight. (also a C2R adopter!) volunteered to help with puppy duty during the day. 🐶❤️
Mama Tilly needed a place of her own, too, and Sarah Emery and her husband, who recently adopted our boy Griffin, opened their hearts and home to her. 💗 Despite having a lot on their plates already, they wanted to help and we are so grateful for them!
✈️ NEXT, THE TRANSPORT!
With homes lined up, we needed to get this little family to safety BEFORE the next round of storms expected Thursday. Enter Gabrielle Allen of Flying Shepherd Ranch!
Gabby and her husband have flown hundreds of rescue dogs to freedom who might otherwise never have made it out of a shelter. Although they couldn’t make this flight themselves, Gabby being Gabby wasn’t about to walk away from a family in need! She reached out to fellow animal-loving pilots, and Vickie Ellis Kellerr raised her hand!🙌
Here’s the incredible part: Vicky already has a rescue flight scheduled for Thursday, but she offered to make ANOTHER flight to save Tilly and her puppies, weather permitting. Hero!. ❤️✈️
🐾 And the last piece of the puzzle was finding a soft place for Tilly to hang out for a few hours on Thursday until Rob Arnot and Donna McCuaig can take her for her overnight stay before driving her to Glenwood Springs on Friday. And of course, another prior adopter, Kimberlee Flech said YES, I can help! Hurrah! ❤️
This is rescue. It’s adopters who become fosters, neighbors who become puppy nannies, families who open their homes, and pilots willing to take to the skies to save lives.
These are people who don’t HAVE to do any of this, but do it anyway because they care.
We are so