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And I look at you.

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Yeah.

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So just tell me a little bit about what is happening today.

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Okay.

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So we flew from New Jersey to Janesville, Wisconsin here today.

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Pause to rescue is transporting 20 Beagles that were rescued from a research facility to New Jersey.

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When they're there, they will be met by three different rescue organizations

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who will provide essential animal medical care and behavioral support.

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And in addition to that, we have 40 dogs that will be transported by ground in the country in this effort.

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And this...

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All right.

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Let me ask you a question that you don't need to practice.

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Why do you volunteer for this organization?

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Because I absolutely love the animals.

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And it's for a greater cost to get back to the community.

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To, you know, we're not just transporting animals or saving lives.

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So improving people's lives because I often hear from adopters that these animals that they adopt

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usually help them get through grief or loneliness or depression.

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And that's such a powerful connection that they have with these animals.

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And it's extremely rewarding feeling.

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Yeah.

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How many flights have you done like this?

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I have done about this will be my 36th mission.

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I have the health rescue for about a year and a half.

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And is every situation like this one where it's a breeding facility or a testing facility or does it really depend?

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Most of the time this is a special case for us.

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We've never usually done a mission like this.

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Usually our mission is from South Carolina's or the South where these shelters are over-populated

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or they're a killer shelter and they don't have space for these animals.

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So this is a special mission for sure.

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So what does it mean that they'll be able to be a part of this situation?

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It means that these precious lives will go somewhere safe and where they can go to a loving safe home

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which the animal truly deserves to live a normal life, not in a cage.

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So pause to the rescue is specifically the transporter from one place to another.

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And you work with other shelters?

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Correct.

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Let's do this again.

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Yeah, I'm not too familiar with how that operation works but we have about 100 animal rescue shelter partners

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that we are a partner with.

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We transport the animals to them and they will basically take care of the medical schools

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and get any other animals adopted.

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So we have about 20 animals.

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We got about 16.

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We got about 16 crates.

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We can combine two in a bigger one and then we'll put one into smaller ones.

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Not at all.

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Usually they will bark in the beginning on a takeoff because it's a little louder.

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They'll try and take off for all.

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But once we're up in cruising altitude they usually go to sleep.

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The engine noise kind of acts like a white noise in the background so they usually fall asleep.

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They're pretty calm.

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Do you know how many pilots you have?

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Yeah, we're growing a lot and at Pals rescue we got about 12 volunteer rescue pilots

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and they all have their own profession on the side and they volunteer their time when they're available to do these missions.

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How did you get involved with that?

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How did you connect with Pals rescue?

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I got to connect with Pals rescue because I had followed them out social media

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and one of my close friends were one of the Pals rescue pilots

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and obviously I love animals and I love flying.

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So it's flying the animals and flying.

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It's cherry on top.

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Do you have your own?

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I do.

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Yeah, we have a rescue.

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His name is Mack.

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We rescued him when he was two years old.

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He was abused previously.

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But he has a safe and loving home now.

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What do you think is most important for people to know?

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To go to your local shelters to rescue these precious lives and just save these lives

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and stop these research or tests on these dogs.

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Is there someone...