After flying to Kanab to try it themselves, "I knew where I was meant to be," says Juliette. Today, she coordinates volunteers in the sanctuary's "dog town," when she isn't transporting miniature horses, cats, dogs and an occasional Komodo dragon in her airplane.

Last fall, Watt Juliette fired up her engines to help rescue 1,600 rabbits from a bunny ranch in Reno when the owner couldn't care for them all. Then, two months later, she headed up Best Friends' "Feline Flyaway," zipping to Las Vegas to pick up 16 cats left homeless by fighting in Lebanon and delivering the pets to new homes from coast to coast.

"It's all about the animals — that's what keeps me going," she says. "To unite a homeless pet with the perfect new companion — there's really nothing more magical than that."

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