DENVER — Denver Worldwide Airport this week celebrated the 9th anniversary of its animal remedy program, referred to as CATS (Canine Airport Remedy Squad) with a Halloween gathering within the nice corridor of the airport.
About 30 of this system’s 124 animal members have been current, most of them dressed up of their Halloween finest.
“We totally embrace that Halloween theme of simply the distinctive expertise and the joy of seeing an animal dressed up,” mentioned Carla Grahn, the Volunteer Program Supervisor for DIA. “Folks journey for hundreds of causes, and so they aren’t all the time the happier. They don’t seem to be tremendous excited to fly… If our CATS staff can come out and interact with the passengers and relieve that stress and make their expertise right here at Denver one to recollect, that is what we’re taking pictures for.”
The DIA CATS program is the most important airport animal remedy program on the earth, made up of 123 canine and one feline good friend, named Xeli.
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“Once we adopted her 12 years in the past as a kitten, she grew up with our pet on the time, and so she form of thinks she’s a canine,” mentioned Liane Pensack-Rinehart, a CATS volunteer and proprietor of Xeli. “So, she loves canine, which is why it is nice that she’s right here surrounded by canine.”
Barbara Weiss, one other CATS volunteer and proprietor of Gabriel, who was dressed up as a firefighter, believes the animals get as a lot out of this system because the folks they assist do.
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“He is a great egg about carrying costumes, which is enjoyable, and he loves coming right here,” mentioned Weiss. “He will get so excited after we pull up within the automotive, he begins howling, and I’ve to attend until he calms down, as a result of he’s so blissful to be right here.”
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