Boise welcomes rescue dogs from flood-ravaged South

Volunteers on Wednesday unloaded about 30 rescue dogs at the Boise Airport as part of an effort to relieve overcrowding in Louisiana shelters following damaging floods.

Twenty-one dogs will stay in Boise (the rest are going to a shelter up north) and will be available for adoption at the Idaho Humane Society by this weekend or early next week.

The dogs were brought in by Wyoming-based nonprofit Dog Is My CoPilot, whose goal was to send the pups to "areas where they are more adoptable," according to a press release from the organization. The nonprofit says the trip, which brought an additional 30 dogs elsewhere in the region, is the longest-distance rescue it has underatken.

This story was originally published September 7, 2016 at 10:31 PM with the headline "Boise welcomes rescue dogs from flood-ravaged South."