Cute dogs on airplanes

You may remember Jamie Rhein's story last month about Virgin America's chihuahua rescue mission (Chihuahuas by the dozens on planes). Basically, the trendy but fickle Californians overloaded their local shelters with chihuahuas (about 4,700 of them). Conversely, on the east coast, there's still a high demand for small dogs. Virgin America and Project Flying Chihuahua, along with American Airlines and Kinder4Rescue, a non-profit started by actress Katherine Heigl, joined forces to get the dogs to loving homes, saving thousands of them from possible euthanization.

You might have thought that, after that heart-warming tale, we were done with this story. Au contraire. Virgin America just sent us a bunch of pictures of cute dogs on planes. At first we thought "no, no, this is way too fluffy for Gadling," but ... well, we looked at the pictures and ... chihuahuas ... oh gosh ... they broke us down. Puppies flying from California to New Hampshire and New York is, in fact, worthy of two articles after all.

Enjoy.

Gallery: Virgin America flies cute chihuahuas cross-country

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