Photo Gallery: PVAS reacts to local dog hoarding cases

Dogs are kept from a recent animal hoarding from a home in Mission at the Palm Valley Animal Society animal shelter on Wednesday, June 26, 2024, in Edinburg. (Joel Martinez | jmartinez@themonitor.com)

Faith Wright, director of operations at Palm Valley Animal Society, holds two unwanted new born puppies just brought in from the city of Palmview at the Palm Valley Animal Society animal shelter on Wednesday, June 26, 2024, in Edinburg. (Joel Martinez | jmartinez@themonitor.com)

Dogs are comforted as members of Palm Valley Animal Society load 63 pet creates which contain small dogs onto a plane bound for Illinois at the South Texas International Airport on Friday, June 28, 2024, in Edinburg. (Joel Martinez | jmartinez@themonitor.com)

Dogs wait before members of Palm Valley Animal Society load 63 pet creates which contain small dogs onto a plane bound for Illinois at the South Texas International Airport on Friday, June 28, 2024, in Edinburg. (Joel Martinez | jmartinez@themonitor.com)

Dogs are kept from a recent animal hoarding from a home in Mission at the Palm Valley Animal Society animal shelter on Wednesday, June 26, 2024, in Edinburg. (Joel Martinez | jmartinez@themonitor.com)

Pilot Keith Felter loads pet creates which contain small dogs onto a plane bound for Illinois at the South Texas International Airport on Friday, June 28, 2024, in Edinburg. (Joel Martinez | jmartinez@themonitor.com)

Members of Palm Valley Animal Society load 63 pet creates which contain small dogs onto a plane bound for Illinois at the South Texas International Airport on Friday, June 28, 2024, in Edinburg. (Joel Martinez | jmartinez@themonitor.com)

Members of Palm Valley Animal Society load 63 pet creates which contain small dogs onto a plane bound for Illinois at the South Texas International Airport on Friday, June 28, 2024, in Edinburg. (Joel Martinez | jmartinez@themonitor.com)

Members of Palm Valley Animal Society load 63 pet creates which contain small dogs onto a plane bound for Illinois at the South Texas International Airport on Friday, June 28, 2024, in Edinburg. (Joel Martinez | jmartinez@themonitor.com)

Members of Palm Valley Animal society load 63 pet creates which contain small dogs onto a plane bound for Illinois at the South Texas International Airport on Friday, June 28, 2024, in Edinburg. (Joel Martinez | jmartinez@themonitor.com)

Members of Palm Valley Animal Society load 63 pet creates which contain small dogs onto a plane bound for Illinois at the South Texas International Airport on Friday, June 28, 2024, in Edinburg. (Joel Martinez | jmartinez@themonitor.com)

Dogs wait in pet creates on a van before Members of Palm Valley Animal Society load 63 pet creates which contain small dogs onto a plane bound for Illinois at the South Texas International Airport on Friday, June 28, 2024, in Edinburg. (Joel Martinez | jmartinez@themonitor.com)

Pilot Keith Felter deboards the plane after arriving before members of Palm Valley Animal Society load 63 pet creates which contain small dogs onto a plane bound for Illinois at the South Texas International Airport on Friday, June 28, 2024, in Edinburg. (Joel Martinez | jmartinez@themonitor.com)

The tail of the Race For Life Rescue plane is shown as members of Palm Valley Animal Society load 63 pet creates which contain small dogs onto a plane bound for Illinois at the South Texas International Airport on Friday, June 28, 2024, in Edinburg. (Joel Martinez | jmartinez@themonitor.com)

Members of Palm Valley Animal Society wear their “Team Flight” shirts as they load 63 pet creates which contain small dogs onto a plane bound for Illinois at the South Texas International Airport on Friday, June 28, 2024, in Edinburg. (Joel Martinez | jmartinez@themonitor.com)

Members of Palm Valley Animal Society load 63 pet creates which contain small dogs onto a plane bound for Illinois at the South Texas International Airport on Friday, June 28, 2024, in Edinburg. (Joel Martinez | jmartinez@themonitor.com)

Q-Tip waits to board as members of Palm Valley Animal Society load 63 pet creates which contain small dogs onto a plane bound for Illinois at the South Texas International Airport on Friday, June 28, 2024, in Edinburg. (Joel Martinez | jmartinez@themonitor.com)

63 pet creates which contain small dogs rest in a van driven by the Palm Valley Animal Society animal shelter before boarding a plane bound for Illinois at the South Texas International Airport on Friday, June 28, 2024, in Edinburg. (Joel Martinez | jmartinez@themonitor.com)

Pet creates which contain small dogs are loaded onto a plane bound for Illinois at the South Texas International Airport on Friday, June 28, 2024, in Edinburg. (Joel Martinez | jmartinez@themonitor.com)

Jay Garza secures pet crates for flight in a van as Members of Palm Valley Animal Society load 63 pet creates which contain small dogs onto a plane bound for Illinois at the South Texas International Airport on Friday, June 28, 2024, in Edinburg. (Joel Martinez | jmartinez@themonitor.com)

63 pet creates which contain small dogs are loaded onto a plane bound for Illinois at the South Texas International Airport on Friday, June 28, 2024, in Edinburg. (Joel Martinez | jmartinez@themonitor.com)

Members of Palm Valley Animal Society load pet creates which contain small dogs onto a plane bound for Illinois at the South Texas International Airport on Friday, June 28, 2024, in Edinburg. (Joel Martinez | jmartinez@themonitor.com)

Dogs wait in pet creates as Members of Palm Valley Animal Society load 63 pet creates which contain small dogs onto a plane bound for Illinois at the South Texas International Airport on Friday, June 28, 2024, in Edinburg. (Joel Martinez | jmartinez@themonitor.com)

Members of Palm Valley Animal Society load 63 pet creates which contain small dogs onto a plane bound for Illinois at the South Texas International Airport on Friday, June 28, 2024, in Edinburg. (Joel Martinez | jmartinez@themonitor.com)

Faith Wright stands next to the plane after Members of Palm Valley Animal Society loaded 63 pet creates which contain small dogs onto a plane bound for Illinois at the South Texas International Airport on Friday, June 28, 2024, in Edinburg. (Joel Martinez | jmartinez@themonitor.com)