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A puppy abandoned at a California airport has found a new home with an airline pilot.
According to the San Francisco Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA), an international traveler “chose to continue traveling without his animal” upon arrival at the city’s airport in August.
A pilot working for United Airlines, William Dale, was chosenout of a number of applicantsto take the 6-month-old German Shepherd in, as the airline “worked to ensure the puppy completed necessary requirements to enter the United States, including a quarantine period,” the nonprofit noted in a news release.
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In addition to hosting a festive party at the airport on Dec. 15 in Polaris’s honor when the adoption cleared, United followed up with a $5,000 donation to the SF SPCA.
“United’s Customer Service team took on quite a challenge to ensure Polaris would be safe, healthy, and find a loving home,” Lisa Feder, SF SPCA chief of rescue and welfare shared.
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“I only hope that we can do half as good a job of taking care of him as the United staff did,” Capt. Dale shared of his family taking in the pup. “More than one employee said to me, ‘You better take good care of him … or else.’ There was even a wag of a finger,” he added, according to multiple outlets.
source: people.com
